Stop Dog Digging and Maintain the Beauty of Your Surroundings
Stop dog digging if you want your lawn to stay beautiful.
Digging is a dog's natural habit.
It is nature's way of providing them an outlet for their boredom or unused energy, and a way to exercise.
This is perfectly normal.
But if your dog's digging rises to a level that can be considered as excessive or extreme, you need to make it stop.
Punishing the dog is not the solution to stop its digging behavior.
Instead of scolding your dog or castigating it for digging, you need to understand the underlying reasons why it indulges itself into the habit, so that you can find a corresponding way to stop it.
Understanding a Dog's Digging Behavior Digging is a dog's manifestation of extreme boredom and lack of exercise.
Dogs that are not regularly exercised by their owners tend to find a way to do it on their own, and digging is one of its ways of doing it.
Bored dogs normally opt to chewing or digging.
If your see your dog do this, or if you find digging marks in your backyard, it is enough signal that you need to exercise your dog to expend its excess energy.
Take your dog out on regular walks each morning.
This will give it the exercise it needs, aside from allowing it to explore the world outside, which expands its horizon.
Exercising your dog is also an exercise for you and it relieves you from stress.
Unbalanced nutrition is another factor that compels a dog to dig.
This is a condition that drives a dog to eat non-edible foods for long periods, like 30 days.
Dog professionals call this condition pica.
For the purpose of establishing the real cause of the behavior, you have to establish that your pet is not bored and it has sufficient exercise.
If it still digs, then your pet could be deficient in nutrition.
In order to address its nutritional issues, you should bring your pet to a vet.
You should take into consideration that there are dog breeds that just loves to dig.
When you happen to raise a dog that belongs to this type of breed, there is little you can do to prevent it from doing its favorite past time.
But you can still go around this by designating a special place in your backyard for your pet to dig on.
Aside from providing them sufficient exercise, you can also enroll your pet in a training program where other skills are taught that could shift its focus.
Some dogs dig because they want to find a cool place to stay.
If this is the reason why your dog digs, find a shady place in your backyard where it would no longer be necessary for your pet to dig.
You can also stop a dog's digging by shifting its focus on an enjoyable game or activity such as fetch.
Aside from shifting it away from digging, activities like this one can also do you some good because it can keep you from stress somehow.
Dogs need company and they also need affection.
As a pet owner, you have to give your dog its basic needs, behind a wholesome consistent discipline, to prevent them from developing negative behaviors such as aggression, anxiety or digging.
Digging is a dog's natural habit.
It is nature's way of providing them an outlet for their boredom or unused energy, and a way to exercise.
This is perfectly normal.
But if your dog's digging rises to a level that can be considered as excessive or extreme, you need to make it stop.
Punishing the dog is not the solution to stop its digging behavior.
Instead of scolding your dog or castigating it for digging, you need to understand the underlying reasons why it indulges itself into the habit, so that you can find a corresponding way to stop it.
Understanding a Dog's Digging Behavior Digging is a dog's manifestation of extreme boredom and lack of exercise.
Dogs that are not regularly exercised by their owners tend to find a way to do it on their own, and digging is one of its ways of doing it.
Bored dogs normally opt to chewing or digging.
If your see your dog do this, or if you find digging marks in your backyard, it is enough signal that you need to exercise your dog to expend its excess energy.
Take your dog out on regular walks each morning.
This will give it the exercise it needs, aside from allowing it to explore the world outside, which expands its horizon.
Exercising your dog is also an exercise for you and it relieves you from stress.
Unbalanced nutrition is another factor that compels a dog to dig.
This is a condition that drives a dog to eat non-edible foods for long periods, like 30 days.
Dog professionals call this condition pica.
For the purpose of establishing the real cause of the behavior, you have to establish that your pet is not bored and it has sufficient exercise.
If it still digs, then your pet could be deficient in nutrition.
In order to address its nutritional issues, you should bring your pet to a vet.
You should take into consideration that there are dog breeds that just loves to dig.
When you happen to raise a dog that belongs to this type of breed, there is little you can do to prevent it from doing its favorite past time.
But you can still go around this by designating a special place in your backyard for your pet to dig on.
Aside from providing them sufficient exercise, you can also enroll your pet in a training program where other skills are taught that could shift its focus.
Some dogs dig because they want to find a cool place to stay.
If this is the reason why your dog digs, find a shady place in your backyard where it would no longer be necessary for your pet to dig.
You can also stop a dog's digging by shifting its focus on an enjoyable game or activity such as fetch.
Aside from shifting it away from digging, activities like this one can also do you some good because it can keep you from stress somehow.
Dogs need company and they also need affection.
As a pet owner, you have to give your dog its basic needs, behind a wholesome consistent discipline, to prevent them from developing negative behaviors such as aggression, anxiety or digging.
