Dog Digging Holes in Backyard

I have a bird dog too. They get bored.

The only real answer I've found is to run the dog shite out of them, but that takes time and a lot of open space.

Petsafe buried perimeter line with the radio collar. If she spends too much time fricking around on the perimeter, it will beep. If she continues fricking around close to the perimeter, static shock will make her find out. This was effective on three different escape artist beagles I've had.

Follow installation and training techniques carefully, keep the main unit on a separate UPS and ground it to the earthing rod.

Dogs can wear two collars. And if the beeps are different, and the dog isn't a moron, it will figure out what the two different beeps mean.

Or you can spike your perimeter with rebar.

Read that, only issue is she’ll dig another hole and get out before I can fill it

Like deeprig said, 2 collars isn’t an issue.

My lab wears a garmin shock collar and a SpotOn fence collar all day long. He knows what the different tones mean.

Edit: He still digs holes by my house when he gets bored

Had this problem with mine a few years ago. Filled the holes with some quickcrete and then put a couple inches of dirt back on top. I came back a few days later to his claw marks etched in the concrete. I bet that hurt, and he never tried it again.

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If you can stop a beagle, you can stop anything.

I had a Jack Russel that I used a hot wire on and if I didn't weed eat the whole thing, he's wait till the dew was on it and take the hit to get under. Crazy dog but the rabbit beagles I had required a prison of concrete and wire with a roof on it or they were gone.

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Once a beagle figures out how the game works, they will win the game. I had one that got shocked enough that it realized the shock wasn't fatal, the pain was just weakness leaving the body. She'd take the pain just to get out. The petsafe model has a feature that stops the shock after so many seconds in the case a dog gets trapped in some position in the shock zone. She also trolled the perimeter daily coming in and out of the beeps waiting for the collar battery to die, then out she went.

Beagles are very crafty thoughtful mischievous dogs.

They're good at killing chickens too.

Had a golden doodle that did everything in his power to escape. Shocks didn't phase him once he locked in on getting out. I rebared the entire fence so he couldn't dig out, he would then bounce on the chain link until something broke free enough for him to get out, all the while being shocked.

He was the biggest dumbass, and he was determined to get out. Nothing stopped him, had an electric fence, had a manual shock. Wouldn't stop him at all.