Tips for Gardening with your Dog
Many people love to garden when the weather turns warm. There’s nothing like having a prize winning flower garden, or getting all the fresh fruits and vegetables you can eat without paying exorbitant store prices.
Lots of these people also have dogs, and love to spend time with them. This time can be spent on a walk or playing fetch at the park. You can also spend this time in your garden with your dog as long you have set some ground rules first.
Sometimes your dog is going to want to rip and tear through your garden, and it doesn’t matter to your dog if it’s your prized petunias or ground cover that needs to be weeded out. You dog will eventually start to dig in whatever spot it feels comfortable in. Because of this, you have to limit your dog to certain areas of your garden. By teaching your dog what areas it can, and cannot, go into, you’re helping it understand that some things cannot be dug up and destroyed.
You may consider putting a fence up around your garden. You can even put up a smaller fence inside your garden to make sure your dog stays out of certain areas. Fences are much more humane than the invisible fence that shocks dogs when they try to go over it. Of course, if they do go over it, for whatever reason, they’ll get shocked again trying to get back into the yard. That just doesn’t seem right for the dog, and putting up an actual fence won’t let it get out to begin with.
If you take the time to train your dog while you’re in the garden, and walk it before going to the garden, you should be able to get everything done that you need to and still spend quality time with your beloved pet. It doesn’t take much but a stern voice to train a dog to stay away from certain areas, and you should stick to it.
You shouldn’t let your dog dig up the ground when the growing season is done because it will get confused when it can’t dig when you’re gardening. It’s the little things that need to be paid attention to and you have to stand your ground on those. In that way, your dog will learn just where it can dig and where it’s not allowed.
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