My Cav bitch who is 4 years old has taken to scrabbling up the corner of the lino. Preumably after a killer spider or monster mouse! We do not have mice as for spiders???.The point is I have treid putting a deterrent which smells of mothballs which claims to stop  dogs scrabbling digging or whatever. Well she has not read the instructions and she is still trying to dig up the lino. Any advice please. Thanks

Don't you just love those Cavs - my boy does the same thing with his bedding. I suppose you could try distracting her when she starts, have a game with her and a tuggy toy to divert her? :-)

My pup used to do that, I think all dogs want to dig, so now when we're out on walks I find a place she's allowed to dig and encourage her to do it. So she doesn't bother in the house now.
If it's become a habit, you might want to put a chair or something over her favourite spot for a while.
HTH

will give that atry

Our GR loves to dig in the empty plastic linen basket :D and the lawn and the vegetable patch and the flower beds and the compost heap and the shrubbery and .........:D

My JRT is determined to dig to Australia through a particular piece of carpet in the sitting room. The carpet in question covers a concrete floor but he's yet to realise that this  insuperable barrier makes it impossible for him to emerge somewhere near Sydney Harbour Bridge at any time in the foreseeable future.

He also "scrabbles" in a certain "permitted" chair before settling down for a kip but I've discouraged this on each and every other bit of furniture.

I put his behaviour down to breed characteristics since digging is exactly what the Jack Russell terrier was designed to do. However, he does have carte blanche to dig certain bits of the garden and I've just discovered a very much more successful attempt to get Down Under near the coal bunker.

well, you do have a JRT, whereas I have a Cav, She is generally very ladylike except for adoring dirty filthy puddles and now scrabbling. O well!