Because my dog makes wells?

First of all knowledge because it makes them since the understanding of the problem will generally alleviate to the tension about the situation at issue WELLS! , which usually seems inexplicable and unmanageable for the owner.

The behavior of the well dug one is taken frequently like part of a destructive behavior, this is not thus, single it is a complex behavior caused by a variety of different motivations depending on each dog and each owner.

There are certain races by ej: to foxterrier and teckel (sausage) that was improved to increase their ability to excavate for the animal hunting that lives in madrigueras like foxes, otters, weasels, etc, they have an instinct to excavate greater than other races.

The motivations can be divided in normal and abnormal behaviors: the abnormal ones will have to determine it the etólogo veterinarian (specialistic in behavior) or the operating veterinarian with a diagnosis derived from etomograma (study of the behavior), the normal ones however are nine and we summarized them next:
* Epimelético behavior: it comprises to bury food and to return to recuper it, the lack of leftover food generally aid in these cases, the dogs are the great ?reservadores? of food, they will bury bones or other flatteries and they will unearth ?when they need it?, generally a rainy day!
If blood or bone flour is used to fertilize the garden, the scent can be irresistible. A dog can excavate and excavate trying to find that nonexistent but appetizing bone!
* Behavior of ingestion: Its dug behavior of responds to a stimulus of hunting (it occurs generally in hunting races) and obtaining of erosive small prey Ej., any alteration in the land can stimulate the hunting and therefore the dug one.
* Behavior search of comfort: Behavior that it has to do with the search of comfortable and comfortable guarida for him, in this case digs a single well and in he himself place., summer time, the deepest Earth layers are fresher, the dog can do a well looking for lightening of the heat, thus to have better defense and comfort!
It is always necessary to provide a fresh, shady place so that the animal can rest when it wants.
* Behavior of relaxation: Anxiety by separation occurs in the case of the problem of called behavior when they are single in the house, the anxiety and the boredom takes it conduct to that, also by the lack of exercise, the humans to this type of behavior we called the destructive one (bite and they break all type of objects) but for them forms part of its recreation and game that as much lack does to him in these cases, but in many opportunities it is avoided making good games with him, but always far from the schedule of which the house give ins, if it gambles before leaving is increased the anxiety when it is single, also to give suitable toys him so that it can bite and entertain, which can be rubber bones, hard plastic, etc, which they are acquired in petshops, also a wood of broom cut in 4 pieces can be an alternative, to consider yes is puppy never to let to its reach strange or very small elements which they can be ingested and to produce an intestinal obstruction with serious consequences, that is enrich the atmosphere with games, balls and but exercise! , and in the case of anxiety by very manifest separation a correción with a comportamental and farmacológico treatment is due to make directed by the specialistic Veterinary Doctor in behavior animal.
* Behavior of investigation: in general he is superficial digging, between stones and but it frequents in young and active animals.
* Behavior I stupefy mimetic: they copy it of another dog and they learn of the companion without having reason some or learn of he himself owner when making gardening workings.
* Agonístico behavior: frustration of aggression, behavior that occur back in dogs of close and with the limitancia of not being able to leave, and if they have the opportunity they will make a well below the perimeter and will go to the street, some will dig until obtaining it, especially if in the district there is some dog in fervor.
Another reason in this case dog or dog that has a ?difference? with the dog of the neighbor and extends its territory to the one of the neighbor and will want to escape to attack the other dog, in these cases if there are no intentions to generate the advisable thing is the castration as much if he is male as female, in addition will be avoided problems with the neighbor
reproductive *Comportamiento: Any dog can excavate to construct guarida. A dog will excavate to sometimes make its paridera when it is on the verge of give birth, or in a called disease pseudopreñez that by a hormonal disturbance simulates a pregnancy and a childbirth, having the same conduct that when it is a normal childbirth.
* Social behavior: the dogs are animals that they like to be accompanied, if they are single tries to dig to escape of that solitude which we see it forced to live, to come up providing it with a social contact outside the land with regular strolls to parks or other places public so that other animals and people interact with, always with strap and necklace.

There are certain methodologies that can be applied to come up that the animal makes wells:

a) It is necessary to look for a place to him where it is allowed him to not elsewhere excavate and to train it with congratulations and flatteries when it does in the certain place and. A suitable place is a sandy area, a place in which or it has been excavated and where the Earth is loose, or an area where there is much shade. A sandy area has the benefit that the sand is much more easy to cover and to clean.

Once the place is determined, the Earth will soften or sand and will be buried some favorite flattery, to bring the dog to the place and to issue the order to him digs, digs! and is praised it when it opens flattery. Repeat until the conduct is learned. If you catch it excavating in an area impropia, she is said to him No! then it takes it zone to the wished and it is said to him to dig here! praising it if he does. This training can take several days.

In order to persuade the one that does not make wells in unsuitable places, there are many ways different to do it, putting pepper, small balls of naftalina (not surely with the children), citruses. There are also commercial products, these products act creating a scent in the area that is repugnant for the animals or that interfere with the sense of the sense of smell of the animal. Some products can directly be used in the plants and turf, and other no, this one probably, is the easiest solution.

 

Author: MV Adelaida A. Goldman
www.mascotia.com/oncologia
agoldman@mascotia.com

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