Burying and Digging

I have not kept this Blog up like I should have. I have been distracted to the point of forgetting I started it. To anybody who may have been reading this I apologize. Given the size of the internet I rather doubt that I have had even one reader.

Dachshunds love to dig. If you are someone who does not want holes dug in your yard then you should find another breed. That being said I don't like holes dug in mine either but our Doxie is a bit different from others. She does love to dig but it is confined to our vegetable garden. Mostly it is confined to the garden. Yes she does occasionally dig in the yard but she usually covers her holes back up unless she is going after a mole. Holes dug in the process of killing moles do not bother me one bit.

I once had a lab that dug holes just to be digging them. Some of them he would lay in all day. Sometimes I would nearly break an ankle stepping in one. I did manage to get him to cut back on it. I found that giving him a bath during the summer caused him to cut back on his hole digging. I bathed him every ten days. Once he dug a hole he came back to it everyday and kept expanding it. If the hole was in an area that caused me trouble I took a garden hose and filled it with water. He would not lay in or dig in a muddy hole. I did this daily until he gave up on the hole entirely. I would then fill the hole back up, re-seed it with grass, and water it daily.

With the Doxie her hole digging usually has an intelligent purpose to it. It's actullay rather funny to watch. We have a neighbor that Dolly loves. The neighbor gives her a dog biscuit everyday. Dolly hates dog biscuits and turns her nose up at them. When the neighbor gives her the biscuit she acts as if she has been given a great treasure. Instead of eating it she does the happy run back to our yard.  She then buries the biscuit out of the sight of our neighbor who thinks she is eating them.

She will not bury the biscuit just anywhere. She buries them next to things like our cucumber trellis or a fence post.  She has to have a landmark of some kind. We dig furiously for a few seconds, drop the biscuit in, and then cover it up with her nose. It's usually rather hard to see where she has buried something.

I really think that she does this so that our neighbors feelings will not get hurt. Her secret is safe with me. I plan to pay back our neighbor with a little Christmas gift and pretend it's from Dolly the Doxie.

My love for this dog continues to grow.