Mr. Wise, you might appreciate this story.

We have a total of 6 dogs behind 6' blockade-style fences that touch our property. Neighbors on each side, and because of the way the lots are laid out, 2 neighbors on the back of the property.
Chula's non-reactive with 5 of them. A 6th was recently added, and the fence fighting ensued.

The 5th & 6th are JRT's; a younger dog added to keep an older dog company, from what I can tell. The older one barely ever made a woof, until the new one arrived. Now, if they hear Chula in the back yard they come to the fence and bark, and she lights up on them. (working on desensitizing, but sometimes just slipping a lead around her neck and getting her away from the fence. Once she's 3 feet from the fence, she'll focus on me..)

Anyway, this happened the other day while my son and I were in the pool, and I jumped out to get Chula away from the fence and put her in our patio enclosure. Got back in the pool, and could still hear odd noises coming from the JRT yard. Sort of soft splashing intermixed with frantic digging. So I creep up to the fence to peek though the cracks (I'm way too short to see over it) and I see one of them in an old abandoned pond liner (hard plastic tub, about 2 feet deep). There had been a hard rain recently and there was about 4" of water, along with years of accumulated sludge, in the bottom of the thing.

The one was furiously digging and splashing, and the other soon jumped in to join him. They were covered from the tips of their noses to their little stubby tails in mud.
(I think the owner doesn't leave them out for so long any more.)

Oh hell yeah. I can picture my Border Terrier granddogs totally viewing that as their "virtual tunnel-digging course."

They would LIVE in something like that.

That'll fix 'em!

Strangely, though, Turbo is a poor excuse for a terrier in the digging dept. Never been an issue.

But he will retrieve for days. I say that somewhere in the world there is a lab that is digging up a yard, and will not fetch a stick for lovin' or money.

It actually would be a great way for them to entertain themselves, if the owner would clean it out and fill it with clean sand and water.

I don't think they get any structured exercise.

 Quote: Michael_Wise

Strangely, though, Turbo is a poor excuse for a terrier in the digging dept. Never been an issue.

But he will retrieve for days. I say that somewhere in the world there is a lab that is digging up a yard, and will not fetch a stick for lovin' or money.

That's funny! Lucky you...(an obsessive digger would drive me crazy)

 Quote: Michael_Wise

But he will retrieve for days. I say that somewhere in the world there is a lab that is digging up a yard, and will not fetch a stick for lovin' or money.

HeeHeeHee! That must include one very confused Retriever owner.

Oh man, someone had to shampoo two puppers before those bad boys went inside! Falcon isn't a digger, but give him a mud puddle and he pats his front feet up and down furiously (happily) at the squishy, yucky muck! I have to let him do it every so often just because it is so darn cute.

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Oh man, someone had to shampoo two puppers before those bad boys went inside! Falcon isn't a digger, but give him a mud puddle and he pats his front feet up and down furiously (happily) at the squishy, yucky muck! I have to let him do it every so often just because it is so darn cute.

About a half hour after I observed the mud party, I heard the owner come into her back yard, and utter....'Oh, No...'
I must admit that I enjoyed a surreptitious snicker from that.

Try gardening with working terriers that have been hunted in the ground. A shovel to a terrier is like a shot gun to a bird dog.
Back when I was actively hunting I couldn't put a plant in the ground with them watching. If the plant was undiscovered in 2-3 days it was good to go. If they found it before that...it was a goner.
I buried one old terrier in the yard while a couple of others laid on the ground watching. Sooooo sad looking..RIIIIIIIIIGHT!
Wife called me at work the next day in a panic.
"THE DOGS ARE DIGGING UP ROCKY!" "THE DOGS ARE DIGGING UP ROCKY!"
You got to love the evil little bassids!

I purchased Miles in 94 at 9 wks old,(he was out of hunting stock from a JRT trial judge) brought him home ,he feet just touched the ground he was chasing a chicken I taught him the schutzhund sit & bark, great dog, 10 lb Malinois lol