Our 1.5 year old big boy is a Great Dane and black mouth cur mix. He’s the sweetest and goofiest dog that we love very much. He has had a traumatic past and is afraid of all new things and easily overstimulated in new environments. He has been a good dog up until recently when he started digging in our backyard (which is a decent size for him) when we’re not home. We’ve gotten him toys and a lick puzzle but he doesn’t seem to enjoy them much by himself. We’ve taken him to the holes when we got home and showed him why we were upset with him. He didn’t like it but he stopped digging for about two weeks and now he’s back to digging when we’re not home. When we try to take him to see the holes he digs he starts peeing himself and crying/flipping out when we try to guide him to the holes so we can’t properly show him what he did wrong. He knows he’s in trouble but I feel like I’m traumatizing him more. What do we do? Why does he do it?
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