TanksHill...Roll on!!

[Farmfresh]

Great DEAL! Those are exactly my boots I bought last winter, but mine were full price!!

 

[Henrietta23]

I have those I certainly didn't pay $12.99. Nice score! Mine are nowhere near that clean either!

 

[TanksHill]

Does anyone want a Rottie with an attitude problem????? Ok so maybe it not attitude, maybe he just has an affinity for fresh produce.

My dh went out to water the lawn, well weeds, last night. I looked out the back door and my dog just froze. Standing tall and stared at me. I gave him the stink eye and said "what do you look guilty about?". Five minute later dh says "why is your garden all dug up and do you want this beet laying here?"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went out to inspect the damage. The dog went after the carrots again. This is not the first time. But this time they were tiny so he destroyed more greens than carrot. And while trudging through my raised bed his big feet followed by his 100 lb body squished everything. They must have sunk a good two inches in he virgin untouched soil. He managed to squish some newly sprouted heirloom tomatoes, destroy about 1 sq ft of carrots. Then helped himself to one large heirloom yellow beet.

I was just standing in my garden yesterday admiring how nice it looked and how well it was coming together. First the chickens now the dog. What next???

I hope if he tries it again he gets a jalapeno.

I do have some cattle panels I normally put across the beds, but they are being used in another part of the garden. I will need to figure something out today and fix things up.

What a bummer!!

 

[SKR8PN]

Put a shock collar on him, turn him loose and when he gets near the garden, zap his arse. I guarantee after 2 or 3 of those, he'll not want anything to do with the garden.

 

[Farmfresh]

Good neighbors need good fences and so do good dogs.

I totally understand the big dumb dog problem. My German Shepherd, Sirius, has been entering the FENCED garden spot, by working the gate open with his nose. He then proceeds to wrap his tie out rope around the tomato staking and then howl until you rescue him.

I used to have a blackberry eating dog as well. My fruit eating dog, Cassie, much prefers bananas!

The beet probably reminds him of a ball!

 

[TanksHill]

Actually he likes the greens. Retard!

Yes a shock collar might do the trick.

We are not fenced in. I have a yard with white picket fence on two sides. Mainly to keep the kids stuff from rolling down hill. The dog has a 5 x 10 kennel in the yard for when we need to leave him alone.

Free I know what you mean about them getting into stuff. Yesterday he got in the exterior chicken run, lifted the latch to the interior run and let the chickens out. Then he sat there with them for a while because he couldn't get back out.

 

[tortoise]

I'd spring for an underground fence. They aren't much more expensive than a good shock collar.

You can lay the wire on top of the soil or hang it on a fence. Move it around if you need to. It's always on and your dog won't learn he can get in the garden when you are not there.

We have underground fence here. We put the garden next to the property line (where the existing fence is) and put a chicken wire fence around it to keep rabbits out. The metal fence picks up on the electric in the underground fence, so our dogs never mess with the garden.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

hee hee hee bad dog! i love that you gave him the stink eye!

my pooches follow me around all day and so they know the command "get out of my dirt!'...and they do pretty well.

fortunately neither of them are diggers but when they get to rolling around and biting each others heads they can really do some damage to anything that they flop into. throw a gander into the mix and its just a disaster waiting to happen.

i'm telling you.. its like being around teenage boys all darn day.

i just gave up and put field fencing around all my garden spaces... but i have one little hen how can hop thru the upper portion and most times you'll see me chasing her with a hose and yelling "you get out of there missy!"

pretty much anytime your pup heads into your garden, give him the Finger of Discipline and a stern "get out."

good luck!

 

[Dace]

Sorry about the garden and the dog....it is kind of funny that he likes your veggies though!

 

[FarmerDenise]

Our dog likes carrots too and digs them up, but she only digs up one or two and when they are of some size, so it doesn't do too much damage.
We are at the point now, that if we find fencing at a good price or free, we bring it home. Eventually we are going to have little fenced in areas all over the property