How to stop a dog from digging?

How to stop a dog from digging?

The dogs do the digging with no intension of damaging your lawn or the beauty of the flowers, this is very normal for the dogs to do this,the reasons behind digging is various.
Find out why the dog do the digging, how we can stop them, and some alternatives to stop getting harm to our property.

Why the dogs do the digging?

The dogs has no such intension of making harm to the beauty of your lawn, they do this because they enjoyed doing that sometimes.

The most important Reasons behind the dog digging?

Destructive behaviour-

The smell of the soil or the grass is not a problem, but the problem is the environment of the dog.
sometimes the dog is in stress or in anxiety in this mental conditions the dog starts doing such things to decrease the anxiety level.
so here you need to take some action and you have to find the reason behind the stress of your dog.
What you can do when the dog is in stress? first try to find out the reason behind the stress of your dog, and try to change the environment conditions of your dog, bring some change in the food of your dog.

If the stress is not decreasing by doing all these than take your dog to the vet.

Symptoms of stress.

The symptoms of stress are not very common, in this stage the dog becomes very violent to others and he didn`t allow anyone to touch him sometimes.
So this condition of the dogs should be cure fast(can take the help of the vet).
If your Dog has start digging habit suddenly then the reasons can be different-

1-The urge to hunt-

It may be possible that sometime your dog have found anything from the ground, and that thing has attracted your dog very much, so your dog will try to find that thing again and again by digging.
All the dogs have a natural instinct to hunt. 

2-Unsuitable environment-

Animals do the digging as a way to try and find comfort or protection in their environment. This may happen if your dog is left outside without any access to a shaded area or, alternatively, if they`re left outside in the cold without the access to heat.

3-To find entertainment-

If your dog is left bored or lonely, he will try to find something by which he gets entertain so he may start digging.
Digging can give him the on spot entertainment.Now they will do this whenever they will get bored.
If a dog`s environment isn`t stimulating or they aren`t getting social interaction, so this may be the reason of your dog`s destructive digging.

How to stop a dog digging?

1- Remove or decrease the stress level of the dog.

If the reason behind the digging is stress or your dog feels threatened, so it becomes very important to find the root of their anxiety.
Sometimes this can be the scolding by the owner or the changing of the apartment: a sudden change in the environment can leads a dog to have a high stress level.
To prevent your dog from stress you can spend more time in playing with your dog, This can decrease the stress much.

2- Exercise-

You should be very careful about the daily exercise of your dog, exercise make your dog free from any mental or physical problems.
Every dog should exercise at least 1 hour daily and always try to increase the timing of the exercise. This could help them to burn of the extra energy that they are spending on digging up holes in your lawn.

3-Cure the pest problem in your home-

Find humane ways to trap the problem pests,or hire experts to do is for you. always be careful when using chemicals of any kind to treat a pest problem,as they can be very toxic to your dog.
How to stop your dog from digging under the fence?
If you have kept your dog in a fence then it is very common that your dog will try to escape from that area, and if he will not get any gate to go out, he will surely go out by digging the lawn.

If the fence is not able to stop you then you can buried the half build rocks near the fence,then your dog will be unable to go out from the fence but also the time to keep the dog always in the fence be minimum otherwise your dog will go in stress and can bite you and other members.

Alternative to prevent your property from getting holes-

If your dog has become habitual to the digging and by this habit your lawn is getting destroying, then you can use the above tech-tics but it will take time to generate a habit of not doing digging till than you can bring the artificial man-made field with mud, your dog will become happy with that small lawn, that will give your dog the same feeling as the original one.

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