How can I keep my puppy from chewing and Digging!!

[USgal-In-Manitoba]

Old Dog/New Tricks,

Wow! Those are all awesome suggestions! Thanks so much.

Our old Border collie learned about electric wire around the flower bed when she was just a pup and we've never had a problem with her since. We dont have a fencer for the flower bed right now otherwise we'd put the wire up to keep this new little pup out. She has gotten a few good zaps out of the fence around the pasture and she just goes nuts so I think it'll work.

Someone else recommended the solar shock collar, not sure if that's the exact name of it, but you put it on your dog and when it comes within a certain range of the detector the dog gets zapped. I would go with something like this but I don't want to teach her that it's bad to come near the house (flower bed is right in front of house).

What part of California are you from? Northern/Southern?

Thanks again!

Us Gal~

[Faster horses]

I don't know about this but a dog trainer told us this works. Trim the nails from the front feet pretty short and that will stop them from digging...

Little Dixie/Dusty never dug or chewed up stuff. We counted our lucky stars, too! Wonder what makes dogs do that? I think perhaps it is the more 'high energy' dogs.

We have had Aussie's that were terrible to pull the clothes off the clothesline. Now not as many clothes are hung out to dry so that is not the problem it once was.

[OldDog/NewTricks]

A friend of mine had a boarder collie that would cross-over on a cast
Cast = sending your dog out to Fetch Animals
Dave would cast his dog to the right and the dog would cross-over and come at the animals from the left

Dave took 2' high chicken wire and ran it 4' foot off the out side fence making an alley all the way down to about 5' from the back out-side fence - he had a alley on the left side and right side - he start them in an alley and tell them to "Fetch" - they soon learnd to not cross over - I use Eledtric fence wire and have only had to eledtricifi it one time - but then my dogs all know what that wire is

A "cast" is nice when you can't see the animals - Like over a hill or down in a steep brushy canyon send your dogs in and they come back with 1 or 10 to 12 cows while you sit on the ridge under a tree.

It's said that 1 cowboy with a good dog can do the gathering of 5 or 6 good cowboys

Story
A few friends and I were in a local Watering Hole when a man came in to say that the ranch they worked for had a Bramma Bull in with his heifers - friend Johnny and I had our dogs and I had my stocktrailer - everyone else headed to the barn and their horses

Johnny and I drove up to the fields fence - pulled staples on 4 fence post - I backed the tralier up a little past the wires - with Johnny on one side and me on the other we worked the wires just under the back of the trailer - cast our dog out and loaded the bull right there and put the staples and wires back and went back to watering hole - 3 drinks later the other cowboys showed up… … … Johnny - That Bull? - - he turned to me - You Gota Bull in the Trailer - - By God - I think I do! We had to repeat the story

I'm camper about 25 miles south of San Jose in San Martin, Ca. - - our home place in Gilroy (Garlic Capitol) is a Home Depto and shopping centers