i have 2 young bitches both around 7/8 months old. none have had there first season yet.

last night i was sat in my living room. both bitches were in the kitchen. i have a dog flap to the back garden and they go out to toilet and play as and when they want.

i heard this weird rubbing noise. so i went out and i saw that one of the bitches (puepa the dominant of the 2) was digging at the wall. my garden is surrouned by 7 ft concreate walls with netting on the top.
when she saw me she ran from the wall and sat at my feet looking at the floor, in a submissive pose.

i ignored her and went to the wall and saw loas of dig marks, so i know this has not just started it looks liek it has been going on for a while.

she dosnt dig at anythign else. the dogs have there own sand pit to play in, and also i have a garden area at the frount of my house, both bitches show no intrest to digging it.

i was wondering why she woudl be digging the wall?

could she be trying to escape?

or coudl it just be somethign she enjoys?

when we go out for walsk she dosnt try to run off, and when i let her off on the fields she does come back.

i was wondering if she was maybe comign close to her first season?
we have 3 male entire dogs living 3 doors up.

they are never let out into the back garden. in fact i never see them being walked either

i have a wooden gate and she has not tried to chew at that, it is reenfoced, but there are no teeth marks.

WEll, you won't have to cut her toenails.  Maybe you could teach her to do it with her back feet too?  Seriously, do you see any signs of mole tunnels running alongside the wall?  On either side of the wall?  I've seen mine dig like that when little critter movements can be heard at the site.

Just wondering what your dogs are, as you appear to have the place well secured. Are they a breed that likes to dig?

If they are in the garden on their own a fair bit, if there are no moles etc, I'd put it down to them (or one dog) finding their own things to do. The Sibe/BC cross next door digs for fun and loves to shove her ball into the bushes and dig down to the roots, pounce on the ball and then bring it back up all covered in earth :P Dogs do the strangest things but there's a reason for it in their own eyes!

Lindsay
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they are a lab x collie and an english bull terrier x lhasa apso. its the EBTxlhasa that is doing the digging!

she spends a lot of time in the kitchen cheewing her chews, she is quite a serious pup, dosnt play much, is more intense when it comes to chasing things.

EBT love to dig and chew at anything
mine have dug UNDER the wall
( EBT x lhasa apso!!!! strange combination ?)

yes well. basically i saw some EBT cross pups advertised. i went to have a look. fell in love with them. met the mum who was a pure bred EBT. after all the awwing and arrrring, i asked what the father was and they said it was a lhasa apso. was an accidental litter. they were looking after a friends lhasa apso and he got to the bitch at the end of her season.

i saw pictuers of the father. the owners were very angry about it all.

there are some pics of her in my home page under my profile.

wellpuepa has come into her first season. the digging does seem to have stopped for now. i suppose we will never knwo why she started it. maybe it was to do with her season after all

I would check the other puppy from now on as it is quite usual for one to brign the other into season as the pgheremones tend to make bitches synchronise their seasons.

does it make any diffrence if they are compleatly diffrent breeds?
do diffrent breeds generally come in to season at diffrent adges?

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