Re: (ot) Help Needed -- Digging Dog


"Me" <adl123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a dog. She is an Australian Shepherd, and her name is Blue. Because
of her pretty, albeit slightly bulgy, icy-blue eyes.

She is one of my best friends, and, for the most part, we co-exist very
well together.

But the dog digs. Holes. BIGASS Holes. My daughter and I are both 5'
4". When the daughter stands in the hole, she barely comes up to my
shoulder. I know, because I made her stand in the hole.

What can I do?



Your parameters for the solution:

* No, I'm not going to shoot the dog or get rid of the dog. She's family.
I cannot even whomp her over the head with a newspaper, as the holes are
dug while I'm at work, and, although she is very bright (#7 on the top ten
intelligent dog list), I don't think she would get cause and effect, as in
"Mama's whomping the hell outta me with a newspaper because I dug that
hole".

* I must go to work every day, leaving her alone.

* No she is not bored. She had two fenced acres to run around in.
Woodlands. Dead squirrels. Bunnies. Her husband, Toby, the Border
Collie.

* When I fill one hole, she watches, and as soon as I exit my estate, she
digs another.

* Somebody's gonna break a leg, stepping in the holes. They will sue.

I'm very serious here. Think outside of the box. What can I do?

Donna



I dig dogs. That's a pun, please laugh.

Waiting until your daugter gets taller will not help.

Everyone needs holes dug from time to time--for putting in fence lines,
planting trees or burying treasure, the hatchet, etc. So don't look a gift
horse (dog) in the mouth. I suggest you take that newspaper and spread it
out where you would like a hole to be dug--like I did when I paper trained
my dog Scrotum--and train her to dig there. Then plant a tree in the hole
and get a *Greenie* award from whacko environmentalists; or get a cemetery
license and go into business burying dwarfs.

This is the age of specialization, and families of dwarfs resent having to
pay for a whole big burial plot just for that little-bitty casket.

--BF'ngD







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