Dog Digging Carpet When Left Alone

If your dog doesn t normally dig year round but then he starts digging at the carpet when the dog days of summer are in full swing there are chances your dog may be digging out of instinct to keep cool.

Dog digging carpet when left alone.

Even though potty problems pup is only urinating when he is left alone it is possible that he is not able to control his bladder very well due to an infection or incontinence. In the wild dog ancestors would have dug out rodents or other prey possibly grubs or even tubers to eat. This can be a displacement behavior meaning that when your dog cannot perform a behavior he wants to do he instead performs another. Yes dogs dig when they re hot too.

Refusal to eat when left alone even if you leave your dog food treats or a food stuffed toy he doesn t eat at all when you re gone but does after you return the most important factor in diagnosing these behaviors as separation anxiety is that they occur only during your absence. Or like an attempt to get out of an unhappy or unwanted situation. If you noticed this behavior when you give your dog a bone or a favorite toy this is most likely the root. When he isn t digging to retrieve food your dog may be digging to put away a tasty morsel like that leftover bone for a midnight snack.

An example of this would be when a dog sees a squirrel sitting on a branch he may bark and dig at the base of the tree. Lots of tasty things live underground so digging is the natural way to get to them. Certain dogs however may dig in the carpet when they are excited or anxious.