Dogs in the garden--shoo, dogs, shoo!
Posted: Mar 16, 2010 2:17 pm
Looks like I've got a new problem on my hands this year. Late last fall, we rescued a shiba inu puppy and added him to a canine family that consists of two lazy greyhounds. Toshi has been a real handful (and that's an understatement!), as shibas are known to be, but we love him and we're doing our best to work with his...eccentricities.
While our greyhounds pretty much left my garden beds alone (other than my little girl greyhound, Ella, occasionally taking a running leap over them during her backyard episodes of The Zoomies), Toshi is a curious little guy and small garden fences (which scared the greyhounds) and field stone barriers (which the greyhounds mostly avoided just because) don't deter him. He's plodded through everything over the winter, pooped on everything, and likely will have zero respect for plants once they start growing.
What to do?
What do you folks do to keep curious (or klutzy) dogs out of your garden beds?
While our greyhounds pretty much left my garden beds alone (other than my little girl greyhound, Ella, occasionally taking a running leap over them during her backyard episodes of The Zoomies), Toshi is a curious little guy and small garden fences (which scared the greyhounds) and field stone barriers (which the greyhounds mostly avoided just because) don't deter him. He's plodded through everything over the winter, pooped on everything, and likely will have zero respect for plants once they start growing.
What to do?
What do you folks do to keep curious (or klutzy) dogs out of your garden beds?