Digging

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Bella’s plan is ready.

Three habits to change, each with a step you can start today. Built from the twenty answers you just gave.

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Stop reacting when she digs.

Coming out to stop her adds a second player to the game. The digging gets better, not worse.

It’s what anyone does the first time they see a hole.

Instead: walk her to her own dig patch and reward the first paw that lands in it.

THE OTHER TWO

Stop leaving her out there with nothing to do.›

An empty garden and a working dog’s brain will always find the same job.

The garden looks like enough space to be enough activity.

Instead: give her something to solve before she goes out. Two minutes of nose work is worth twenty of pacing.

Stop filling the holes in while she watches.›

You refilling it is the most interesting thing to happen in that spot all day.

Nobody wants to leave a hole in the lawn.

Instead: fix them when she’s indoors, so the spot stops paying her back.

ALREADY WORKING

You walk her before work. That is the single biggest thing this plan has going for it.

A week from now the aim isn’t a tidy lawn. It’s that you can read her before she starts.

Understand why?