Although it is crude and unusual, placing a few pieces of their poop in their freshly dug hole and covering it back up discouraged the digging. Think about it, its no long fun unearthing your own poop, right?

So to counteract our dirty little trick and keeping in mind that Cairns as well as other Terrier are diggers, we bought a child's sandbox from the local Walmart. We filled it with a number of fun stuff that dogs love to unearth: sand, pebble rocks, roots, sticks and other weird but curious things for a dog.

They loved it and it is only on rare occasions that they dig holes in the lawn anymore. The total cost was about $18 USD and the sandbox we bought was a green plastic turtle with a lid, so when it rains we simply put the turtle's shell back on. :)

It also doubles as a cool lookout point for them, because they jump up on the turtle shell to see from a higher viewpoint and sometimes they play king of the mountain with each other. Hey, a dog's gotta do what a dog's gotta do, right?