D*** diggin dog

[3GIRLSDAD]

My dog has taken to trying to dig out from under the fence after a year of being a pretty good dog. Ya'll got any remedies for diggin dog. And before you answer, the wife WILL NOT let me shot him.LOL


3GD

[J White]

a single strand of electric fence worked on mine - after they got into it
a few times, couldn't throw 'em into it. Matter of fact, it's been un-hooked
from the fencer for years now, but the wire is still there - they don't try it.

[gooch]

My dog has taken to trying to dig out from under the fence after a year of being a pretty good dog. Ya'll got any remedies for diggin dog. And before you answer, the wife WILL NOT let me shot him.LOL


3GD

Well I am of the opinion that once a dog becomes a escapee he will always be one. It could be that the dog is in heat and was looking for luv or a male that was also lookig for luv. Either way you now have a problem. You can go buy a electric fence and all the accessories and it might stop him or her and it might not. After a few weeks mine just started the hole earlier in the day and a few feet back from the fence and made the hole deeper. So the electric fence was useless. Obviously a multi hundred dollar dog run with a concrete floor would work but thats expensive. Bottom line is unless you spend some money and make something thats sound structurally I think your going to be fighting a loosing battle.

You are married with 3 girls, you should be used to that by now.

[horseshoer]

If you have kids around old enough to comprehend and respect it a single strand of electric fence at the base of the fence will do the trick. WalMart has some pretty affordable stuff, it is usually at the back of the greenhouse in the garden center. Know that sounds a little extreme but we are dog people and have had our own and known of several such dogs. Have seen people do everything from buy a 5 gal jug of hot sauce or cayenne pepper and spray/sprinkle it at the fence to digging up around the whole perimeter next to the fence and mixing chipped aggregate and stuff in, thinking the dogs pads would get sore. Not saying someone hasn't run into something better that works but this is all we have found to put a sure stop to it. Good luck.
Jeff

[3GIRLSDAD]

I hear you about the losing battles with all the women in my life. I don't even try to use logic anymore. I wish you could get a dog declawed like a cat .That would fix his wagon. I've temporarily put rocks in his holes but he just moves down the line and I'm running out of rocks. Might have to try the electric fence, but if one of the kids gets into it, ew boy my a** is grass.

Thanks ya'll

[fishingpox]

I love dogs. Dogs have been a part of my life for years. Either they were hunting dogs or house pets. To me, Beagles are the most hard headed. My Beagles were digging out because rabbits were getting in the yard. I went the hot wire and it worked.

We have a Llahasa Apsa..sp... that dog is a good dog now. I never had a problem of house breaking a dog, until this one. After 8 months, I gave her a butt whipping. Seems this dog will not try to learn things unless you whip her. She minds me and not my family and they wonder why.

[Mo'nBack]

Since the bullet is out, then what about a bowl of antifreeze? (Just kidding!) If you know anyone with treeing dogs, you could borrow a shocking collar and knock the fire from it a few times that you catch it digging and it will stop. They even make a perimeter collar that will shock them if they cross a line.

[slabbatical]

I agree with the collar and the fence...the fence will stop the digging along the fence line...the collar requires you to watch the dog but it will stop the diggin anywhere else. I had a lab that wanted to visit the dog next door (through the fence)...an inexpensive livestock fence charger (about $40) from the feed and seed store, some insulators and a roll of wire worked fine. The setup was not unsafe for me or any children that were around.

good luck

[rockjawjohnny]

Get you a roll of 4' chicken wire and attach it to the bottom of your fence so that it lays flat on the ground inside the fence. The grass will grow right through it this spring and it will be invisible, you can even mow right over it. The dog won't be able to dig through the wire, and will eventually give up.

[Pooch]

I'm for the remote controlled shock collar. I got one a few years ago after losing my baby girl's Catahoula Cur to the school bus. Our new puppy found that he didn't like chasing cars and trucks very much. After a while he didn't even have to wear the collar. About every three months, you could tell he was starting to forget but I could walk outside and hold the collar up in the air for him to see and you could see his memory come back.---Pooch