Hello, can anyone give me any advise on how to stop my 7 month old lab digging big holes in my once nice garden?? He stops as soon as i catch him, but cant watch him outside at all times! I have about 6 nice big holes, which i keep filling in, then he finds another patch!! my garden looks such a mess. also the grass has gone yellow where he likes to do his wee's any tips for this too?! My garden looked nice this morning all frosty, you couldnt see the mess he had made of it!!

sorry no help im afaird, my dogs have ruind our garden and we gave up and now the garden is the dogs, same as the sofa!!!!

i best thing you could do is pave it but i must admit grass is nicer!!!

I have heard that adding tomatoe juice to a dogs food reduces the acid in their wee and helps prevent destroyed grass. I have no proof of this, but it is an idea.
Drai

Sorry, this is what Labradors do best! This and jumping any fence, eating the house (bricks and all).

I've posted about this on here so many times. As a warning to others, that pretty little Andrex puppy:-
Will grow into a one dog demolition worker.
Will single handedly dig a tunnel to visit his relatives in Australia.
Will practise high jump over the garden fence.
Will eat anything he can get his mouth around and will chew small enough anything which is too big to get his mouth around.
Will not really notice that when he turned right that it was his owners intention to turn left.
Will produce enough waste product to make his owner wonder if a sewage works should have been brought at the same time as purchasing the puppy.

Sorry if this sounds a little negative.

Regards, John

RFLOL @John.

Never a truer word said !! :)

Lucy
xx

Thanks for that John, its not just my lab that does all of the above then!!!! Nice to know im not alone out there!!

Yep....all true John! :D
Murph digs out on the battlefied. He finds a nice big molehill, pounces on it and digs like fury! If you can find him somewhere he can dig where it doesn't matter, he may not dig up the garden....Murph doesn't now.

TTFN

ruth

my 5 month black lab loves diggin I did have a nice garden we now just let him get on with it now. If he is happy then I am happy. John said that they poop alot well I was cleaning up my garden last week of all the poop and I found a sock in his poop, it was hole and in one piece ( it was my 20 month old sons) I dont know how he managed to get it. To say the leased I was shoked:o

:D

And some of us go there more than once......don't we Lucy!!!!:D

Oh poo is my life !!

If it isn't 4 lots of Labrador poo, then it is baby poo !!

That is what my life has come to now :(

:D :D

My Lab is a keen digger too!!  Not quite through to Aus yet but well on the way :D  She also likes to dig through my walls   I am also constantly amazed at the amount of poo she seems able to produce which well exceeds the volume of food she eats (and that's saying something!!!) ;)

You could give him a corner where he is allowed to dig.  Let him see you bury treasure there (toy, bone, bonio) and then help him dig it up.  If he starts to dig in the middle of the lawn encourage him to go to his corner.  Eventually (hopefully) he will only bother to dig where he finds the buried treasure.

You cd. get a Spanish Water Dog and he wd. help to dig up the rest of the garden too!!  Just decided that I can't cope with another winter with a garden, so it's all going to be paved next year!

I'll join the club on pooing, digging and weeing :)  it does seem to be what they do best, apart from loves and affections and being wonderfully responsive and fab and everything else!! Yes, I know all other breeds are just as great, but I will enjoy the moment!!

Glad that noone is concerned about the destruction of grass due to his wee - mine is the same and I was becoming concerned but no other sign of anything being wrong, excess thirst, weight loss etc.

Some are worse than others in that respect TylerG. Generally bitches are worse than dogs. My Bethany was as hot as boiling water but Anna causes almost no burning. I'm afraid that it is part of dog ownership and if people can't accept it then they would be better not getting a dog :)

Best wishes, John