Brilliant Beautiful Golden Ret people. Pup's a digger...?

So what are you going to plant in all the new holes?? Had the same trouble with "Dummy" when he was a pup. I don't remember who taught 'me' but you need to teach 'him' "how to dig" before you can explain "not to dig". The same goes for jumping fences. When you catch him digging, don't scold him, he sees you doing it all the time, instead praise him by saying "good boy, DIG!!" even if it happens to be one of the plants I gave you!! Then take him somewhere safe to reinforce his behavior with more digging and praise. Then when you catch him pawing the perennials say "NO DIG" with as much negative reinforcement as you see fit. This past summer I was putting electrics to a light in the garden when I came to a sidewalk that needed to be tunneled under. With a little coaxing on all fours and my in the air for all to see "Dummy" did the dig in no time flat. RScott