Training
How to Stop a Dog Digging Up the Garden
Dogs dig for five distinct reasons and each has a different fix. Working out which one you have is most of the job.
Tag: instinct
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Fun Facts
Why Dogs Bury Things
Burying a bone in a flowerbed, or a sofa cushion, is food caching — a survival behaviour from a time when meals were unpredictable.
Fun Facts
Why Dogs Roll in Disgusting Things
Fox faeces, dead fish, badger droppings. The behaviour is universal, the theories are competing, and none of them is 'to get clean'.
Fun Facts
Why Dogs Circle Before Lying Down
Your dog turns two or three times before flopping onto a bed that has not changed since yesterday. The reason is older than the bed, and older than dogs.