Silly Leo, he is digging pits!

[jmanz6]

We just figured out that Leo is digging his "Pyr Pits" indoors. He has always liked to lay on our bed or on the spare bed and he ALWAYS rearranges the blankets/pillows before he lays down. Well, the other night I watched him do it and he is digging a pit! He doesn't dig outside EVER but has taken to doing it inside instead. He is one strange little dog!

[John W. JOHNSON]

Axel is 9 months and we have not tried him for the day yet in our outdoor kennel so don't know if he will resort to the digging or not but he probably will. I have not observed him rearanging the couch, but he will dig at the floor or the carpet especially if there is something he wants under something or if he found a piece of food and it is a good thing we are there when this happens as he really seems to ejoy the process of digging/scratching, he has just started to scratch the ground after do his business and gets a charge out of this as well. I am wondering if it is prudent to dig a controlled pit inside the kennel before he does and diggs himself out of it? The digging is very hard here they call it Moonstoe for a reason, as we sit on a glacial morain so he could dig down to a boulder the size of a volvo, my luck not though so do people drive rods down so they can't get out? We had a Berneese MT dog before Axel and he did dig a body pit is the space between the fence and the dog house never tried to dig out; he sometimes could push the door apart far enough to squeeze through, (incredable strengh), I had to put a second latch at the base of the door to end these not so great escapes.
Thanks. John

[jmanz6]

Pyrs usually dig pits to lay in not to try to escape. They are famous for digging large pits in a very short amount of time. If left in a outdoor kennel with a dirt floor he WILL dig. Leo stays inside with our Lab in his crate and the pan has been replaced twice because he will dig at it when he decides he doesn't want to be confined. I just thought it was really funny that he "digs" pits in the bed but has never shown any inclination to do it outside - although he is never left out by himself since our yard is not fully fenced in.

[2ndPyr]

:) Our first pyr, Belle, always dug pits.
She had her holes in the backyard, one all the way down the side of the foundation, large and a couple feet deep.

On the truck she'd make her pit with pillows. One day she was totally surrounded by them and they fell on her head as well, she just stared up at us like "what did I get myself into?"

Sebastian hasn't dug any large holes yet, maybe when we get home. But he digs at the truck carpet before laying down, and we let him go for a few seconds then say,Okay Sebastian...and he stops, turns around and PLOPS down.

[ragingbull83]

Thats better then a trackhoe how deep was the hole. Mines never been a digger but I hear they can put a backhoe to shame with their digging skills. When i bought mine he had a hole 6 ft wide and 4 ft deep dug but since i got him hasnt dug any in the yard but hes an inside dog now so sure thats the reason.

[Jewel]

We got our pup when she was 8 weeks old and she was delivered to our house by the very nice person who bought our pup's brother. So the three of them arrived at our house on a Sunday last August and we had both pups playing on our backyard. The two 8 week old pups immediately took over the yard and chased my 4 year-old male pyr mix around and freaking him out. It took no time before the two pups started digging in the yard together. They were very serious indeed digging with their enormous puppy paws and one of them fell over at one point because they weren't entirely in control of those huge paws at that age. We had a pyr before who dug holes big enough to plant young trees so I remember thinking at the time, "oh, boy, starting already..." I took a video of those two 8 week-old diggers and it's fun looking at it now to see how small they were at the time.