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bajoiner · **Digging holes and mole chasing -** 11-13-2006, 01:31 AM

I am wondering if any of you have a problem with your lovely Corgi's digging holes? Sassy will dig after the moles that tunnel under the ground but she will also dig holes for no apparent reason if she gets bored and both my husband and I are busy and cannot go out and play ball or run with her. I have tried scolding her (in a nice way) but so far it has not helped. Just wondering if any of you have a similar problem or if you have solved this problem and how?

Barbara

Michael Romanos · 11-13-2006, 02:47 AM

Corgis are not diggers. There is always an exception. If a Corgi digs it is just what you say - boredom. Basically same for chewing furniture, clothes etc and other misdemeaners. Corgi though will dig to bury bones and then at some later stage, dig up their treasured bone for the consumate meal.
The only hole in my lawn was done by the rabbit I once had and Taylor used the hole as a puppy to put things into -such as large stones from the stream and the odd outside toy.

Chip's Mom · 11-13-2006, 04:33 AM

Didn't know corgis weren't diggers - Maybelle is our digger and she will dig to China if we let her. Chip often helps her just so she can get whereever she's going faster LOL

glencorgi · 11-13-2006, 05:40 AM

Digging after moles would be pretty consistent with one of their jobs as an all round farm dog - dispatch the vermin.

But no, corgis are not "diggers" in the same sense as Terriers for example - usually.

Debbie

milles2 · 06:36 PM

Well my two both have the resessive "digger" gene!

I planted tulip bulbs and one day when I wasn't watching my two hoodlums dug them up! Ughhhh then hid the bulbs in the leaves. Devils!

Tucker was terrible with digging. He never gets hit but he sure did get his share of swats on his fanny for awhile. And now Lulu is even worse.

I was cleaning my garage a few weeks ago and the two were clearly bored and bugging me. Under my breath I mumbled "go dig a hole somewhere".

Didn't Lulu go out to my shale driveway and dig to holes!

And here is one of my favorite pictures of Tuck. During the height of his digging phase I managed to get him to dig only in one spot. By the end of summer the hole was so deep he could climb in and hide from me.

MissGambler'sMommy · 11-13-2006, 09:33 AM

I love that photo, he has that caught in the act look. Miss Gambler wouldn't dare dig, though, she hates to get those white socks dirty. She refuses to even walk on asphalt, we have to pick her up and carry her till we're off the offending pavement. She is so dainty.

milles2 · 11-13-2006, 10:39 AM

Oh how I wish my two were dainty!!!!

I took the hoodlums for a walk yesterday morning around 7:30 am. We ran into a neighbor, they of course had to jump up and smooch. Once that was over they were behaving, playing with something behind me. I kept talking for a few seconds then realized they were rolling around on a dead squirrel.

Ughhhhh! Yuck! Thank God they both chased the ball down into the creek later that afternoon. I gave them the sniff test last night and they didn't stink. Goof balls.

MissGambler'sMommy · 11-13-2006, 10:47 AM

There was a thread on here a week or so ago about animals going out of their way to find something stinky and roll around all over it, I couldn't believe what I was reading! I'll just count myself lucky then that MissGambler is a neat freak! (Like Mommy like daughter, my husband always says.) The worst that she's ever done was to jump up to the kitchen counter once and knock over my bowl of pancake batter, and it poured all over her.

Chip's Mom · 11-13-2006, 10:50 AM

MGM - That is hilarious. I bet she was very indignant for awhile. Hopefully she likes her bath.

MissGambler'sMommy · 11-13-2006, 10:53 AM

She wasn't indignant at all, she was licking just as fast as I was cleaning.

Cheetah · 11-13-2006, 11:55 AM

We just moved, and Shippo randomly developed a digging problem. Now I have to watch him like a hawk in the yard, and we're back to being on a leash, until I can be sure he won't dig a hole. >o\/o<

Dillydoodle · 11-13-2006, 12:24 PM

Dillon has access to his potty pen by going to the back door, ringing his bell, then miraculously it opens ( yes it is me!) and he then goes out on the deck and there is a swinging doggy gate there that when i open it he runs down the steps and is in his fenced in pen. Well normally i let him hang out on the deck only and only let him down to go potty in the potty pen... The reason for this? well, the one and only time i let him down in the penned area and then went back in the house, i realized he was not scratching at the back door to come in and it was awfully quiet out there. I went and checked on him and found he had discovered the art of digging. he was trying to dig a big hole...I was not happy- after filling the hole and then correcting him every time he went next to it, he stopped that. but since then, i watch him when he is in the potty area, once he is done doing his business in there, i have him come up on the deck and i close the gate down to his potty area and he hangs out on the deck until he is ready to come inside..then he "scratches" on the glass of the door...and the door miraculously opens again ( yeah, now you all know what i do all day long LOL!)
Emilie

milles2 · 11-13-2006, 12:59 PM

When Tuck was under a year old he buried everything. I'd send him out w/ a bone or bully stuck and he'd bury it. Of course he had to bury it in the middle of my flower beds or in the ground cover. No where on 1 1/2 acre could he possibly find another spot to dig.

Why do we love them? They can be such devils!

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