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[cowgirl]

I have a siberian husky dog (5 yrs. old) who digs non-stop. Does anyone know how to break him of this habit? He has an entire acre to running and I have another dog for company. He has a dog door to come into a house with central A/C, lots of toys, and a swimming pool.

 

[BigAl]

Spinkle some Cayane pepper over the ground . That helpped to stop my dog . They get a little up their nose few times and that usually does it . Use More in the areas they really like to dig . If you catch them digging , rub their nose in it .

 

[Ductape]

I can only tell you mine does it when he is bored. Keeping him busy keeps him from digging holes. Never tried the pepper (or any other) trick.

 

[cowgirl]

I have tried hot sauce and peppers. He loves the stuff. He will eat an entire jar of hot sauce. I was told he does it because he's bored, but I'm not sure how to keep him busy. I also tried stop digging sprays and placing his feces in the holes. he still digs in the same holes.

 

[Pigtails]

We had 2 black labs that loved to dig trenches trying to dig up the ground squirrels. It was funny to watch but we were getting worried that those squirrels might just come over into our new sod we had laid. So we bought a couple of shock collars. They work. Everytime they started to dig we would zap them. They would get down on all fours and crawl over to look in the hole, thinking the squirrel was biting them. But they quit digging. You have to let your dog wear it for about a week or two before trying it though. Otherwise they wise right up. Never let them see you use it when you do..

 

[Pigtails]

Oh and by the way, we ended up having to terminate the gr squirrels, as they became a BIG problem.

 

[Ductape]

I have tried hot sauce and peppers. He loves the stuff. He will eat an entire jar of hot sauce. I was told he does it because he's bored, but I'm not sure how to keep him busy. I also tried stop digging sprays and placing his feces in the holes. he still digs in the same holes.

With my dog i had no choice but to run him down every day. And i mean EVERY day. Whether it was a walk in the woods where he would run around like a banshee, or found him another dog he liked to play with. It was always a matter of wearing him out every day so that when he might have the opportunity to dig holes, he was just to pooped and took a nap instead. Of course, i was fortunate in that my dog got to go to work with me every day..... and i was always able to make time to wear him down. I don't have a solution if you aren't in the position to keep the dog entertained till he/she is to pooped to dig up the yard.

 

[urednecku]

I've heard about trimming their toe-nails a little too close, so it hurts to dig. Not sure about it, but makes sense.

 

[mbsieg]

I have 2 Siberian huskies best answer I have for you is what we did, give them a place in the yard to dig (soft soil), scold them if they dig anywhere else in the yard if you catch them digging anywhere else lead them to there digging spot. And lots of exersize......... These are working dogs, I cannot keep up with mine. After realizing they were horribly out of shape this winter I bought a 4 wheeler and we try to run 4-5mi every day. Not walk RUN 13-15mph !!!!! A neighbor questioned what I was doing and said it was cruel, So after there run last week we went and stopped at the neighbors house and asked if she would like to go for a walk I let her take one of the dogs and we dragged here around for another mile.... This breed of dogs will work until they cannot move anymore, and LOVE every minute of it!!!

 

[Erik]

lay down chicken wire, flagstone, etc... next to the house so he can't do any damage next to the foundation?
I tried the buried feces thing with ours and he would just dig a new hole next to the old one. so I got a puppy to waer him out. (yes, another husky) seemed like a fitting revenge considering how much the firstone tormented the old dog we had at the time.
Of course, this is also the same dog who would dig up and eat the limestone flagging, so brains weren't always his strong point.
Now i'm trying to figure out how to keep him in the yard - about 2 months ago he decided it was time to start exploring the world. i figured out where he was going over and put up electrics. i figured out where he was going under and extended the electrics. I filled any gap i could find next to the house and he still met me at the front door last night.

 

[XeVfTEUtaAqJHTqq]

Yup - lots of exercise. Mine dogs "slowed down" when they were around 10.

Zero tolerance is good. My dogs used to do a lot of digging but I would yell "no dig" at them all the time and eventually they learned but it took time.

 

[cowgirl]

Thanks for the ideas. I am planning on rocking all the way around the house, so he cant dig next to the house. I had to put up a horse electric fence to keep him in the yard. I have a border collie that runs non-stop. The Husky can't keep up with him.