Has anyone attempted to garden yet with "THEM?"

[kayharley]

Today I tried to put down some topsoil and grass seed where the winter took it's toll in our yard. Maddy and Winnie left me alone....Elliott just had to be in on it.

By the time I got finished he was covered in black dirt with grass seed stuck all over him. Wouldn't it be a riot if this seed started to grow in his fur? He'd be a living ChiaPet.

[Guest cairnmother]

You are a brave soul indeed to attempt gardening with cairns around! Hope he doesn't turn into a chia pet gone bad.

[Guest mrskti]

I'm waiting till next week after their play yard is installed!!

[Carolinasmom]

Thanks for the laugh out loud! Life must be a hoot with your three cuties!

[Marmielin]

I have four flats of impatiens and some perennials to plant tomorrow (it is spring in Memphis). I was just wondering last night how long they will stay in the ground with Tink around. When we work outside, she is digging right alongside of us! She loves it.

Lindab

[Scully'sMom]

Well, we completed concreted our yard so there's nothing left to dig unless she wants to put on steel tip paw covers and go for it - LOL! Out front, we HAVE to go dig underneath the azalea bushes and get the mulch all over the sidewalk. It just HAS to be done!

[MikeC]

I guess I am VERY fortunate that my two don't dig in the yard. They dig in the HOUSE........the furniture, carpets, beds. Go figure!

MikeC

[toomanypaws]

Just like you, it's my baby Hannah who has to be in the middle of everything. I have some tall grass growing under a large cage that I have in the yard from when I use to breed birds and now want to get rid of. I removed the fence from around the cage to start pulling up all of the grass/weeds, and who should show up? Little Hannah being her cute little self and trying to steal my pile of grass and take off w/ it if, not eat it. This of course made Abbey curious to see what I was yelling at Hannah about. I bagged up what little I did, put the fence back up and took them inside. Kiara was the only one who continued playing. I also tried putting mulch down one time while they were in the yard and where do you think Hannah was? Standing right in the mulch grabbing large chunks and running w/ them.

From now on, I'm doing my yardwork while the cairns nap.

[CathyAnn]

It's my baby, Piper that is the whenever I am working out in the yard.

He LOVES garden gloves both on AND off of my hands. While I am trying to pull weeds etc, he is right there tugging on my gloves! If I should happen to take them off for second, they are gone, gone with Piper running like the wind!!

He also loves the paper yard waste bags. For those unfamiliar, they are like giant brown paper grocery bags. He barks, lunges and RIPS them to shreds. Not particularly fun when he decides to rip open a full bag.....

Kay....pass the Tylenol, please .

Cathy

[kayharley]

Your Cairns NAP?

[Rob D.]

Whenever we do the gardening, I put Murphy on his forty foot leash, that's right forty foot leash, two red training leashes buckled and taped together and take his highness for a long run. Ya see, the way I figure it, if he's tired and in his kennel he'll sleepand its works every time.

He's only been out with us ONCE gardening and that was it, NO MORE!!!

He was dirty from head to tail and we had to wash him twice, the neighbors cat

got into our garden and you know what they do?? POOP, POOP, POOP!!!!!

If I ever...forget it!!

I am a firm believer that all pets no matter what species should be on a leash,

especially CATS!!

[Bekah]

I did a little weeding and also washed off our porch furniture last week; of course my little assistant was around to supervise. Every time I turned around, there was a pair of eyes staring at me as if to say "what are you doing to my yard?" Hahaha! Thankfully, Liddy didn't decide to "help" and seemed pretty content to lounge around while I worked.

[kayharley]

I agree 100%, Rob.

Our neighbors have cats that roam through everyones yards, poop wherever and ruin plantings. Madison goes absolutely crazy everytime she spots one (this dog has unbelievable eyesight) and I encourage her to "get that kitty". (sorry if I offend any cat lovers here. I love all God's creatures but feel cat owners should be responsible for their pets damage, destruction and elimination)

I've had to stop putting up bird feeders because of the cats but what can you do? Carins are bred to hunt vermin and rodents...it's in their blood. Cats stalk and kill birds, mice....nature can be unfair sometimes. :

[Eliz222]

I'm glad my two don't like to dig either. They DO enjoy finding dead worms, bugs, frogs...to roll in...yuck!

We have a lead out in the back yard that I tie them together with. This keeps them out of my beds and I don't have to watch them. My biggest problem is having them race through the beds when they are not on the lead. I started alot of my plants by seed and they are very tiny now. I have covered them with tomato cages until they are bigger and can handle little feet!

[ParNone]

Murph use to be a great gardening help. I'd start to dig a hole where I was planting something and then he'd start digging right there to help me. While he was working on that hole, I'd start another, then he'd be along to finish it for me. The two of us had planted a real pretty flower bed all around my bedroom bay window. Then along came the Collies. They don't dig, but unlike Murph and Maddie, who would take the brick path around the flower bed, the Collies tromp through it. So there went my pretty flower bed. All new flower plantings are in pots on the patio now.

Les...

[Brodie's buddy]

I can't have potted plants anywhere that Brodie can reach. He thinks they are thones for the little prince. :-) He jumps right up there and perches ontop of anything that is in there! So I now have a low lawn chair with a pillow on the porch instead (for Brodie) and boy does he know it is his! and the potted plants had to be moved out of his reach. But that's OK he's just sooo cute and sweet it is hard to be mad.

[Toto times 2]

The boys like to help in the yard too. If I'm down on my hands and knees working Smokey runs over to lick my face and then goes back and forth under me (I think he's scratching his back.)

[kayharley]

I'm doing container veggies on the deck this year so I can corral them off...Elliott already ate the tops of our radish plants and they were only 1/2" tall.

[Anna_525]

Mike, has it come to a point where there is damage to the carpet from the digging? Alfie does the same thing. We all laugh when he does it but at the back of my mind I can't help but wonder if he'll rip the carpet off one day. If he does...well then we'll have a reason to change our flooring material!

I took Alfie to our backyard and boy, did he dig out all the weeds and till the soil where it looked dry! Less work for me right there!

[Toto times 2]

We were out in the yard today but I had to do poop patrol before anything else.

[Angus'mum]

Yes! The day after we got Angus I was planting 2 trees in our front yard. First he jumped in the hole, then he seemed to be under every scoop of dirt I put in the hole, and he walked around with chunks of grass and dirt in his mouth the whole time we were out. He was filthy, but had a blast! The neighbors got a kick out of him too. Now if I can just get him to stop trying to eat the mulch...

Mickey