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From: mcguire@aero.ARPA (Rod McGuire)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: teaching dogs not to dig?
Message-ID: <446@aero.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 13:05:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: aero.446
Posted: Thu Sep 19 13:05:15 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Sep-85 00:42:12 EDT
References: <487@tektools.UUCP>
Reply-To: mcguire@aero.UUCP (Rod McGuire)
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In article <487@tektools.UUCP> lizv@tektools.UUCP (Liz Vaughan) writes:
>Any ideas for getting dogs not to dig?
...
>I've tried filling them in and re-sodding them, scolding her when I catch her,
>dragging her to look at them, but she keeps digging them up again (almost
>always the same places too).  Any ideas?

The people next door to me swear by the method of putting dog droppings
in the holes. This definitely discourages the dog from digging the same
hole over and over. However this isn't a sure fire cure because I still
see them collecting the output from their four dogs :-).