02-07-2007, 01:14 AM
Nice thought, but we don't have chipmunks around here, and I haven't seen any mole hills in years, either. They probably can't penetrate all the tree roots.
I'm leaning toward Baby Tats comment about buried "treasure" that might be his ration of dog treats. I already thought about whether there was something I might have added to the soil, like bone meal or fragrant fertilizer, but I didn't add anything the last time I was working around it, because it was Fall and I was going to wait until Spring. Louie didn't start digging until sometime in either late November or early December. Maybe I'll try something smelly to try and cover the smell of his precious hoard, because, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes that he keeps going in there to find those silly things - which have probably disintegrated in all the rain by now anyway.
I'm leaning toward Baby Tats comment about buried "treasure" that might be his ration of dog treats. I already thought about whether there was something I might have added to the soil, like bone meal or fragrant fertilizer, but I didn't add anything the last time I was working around it, because it was Fall and I was going to wait until Spring. Louie didn't start digging until sometime in either late November or early December. Maybe I'll try something smelly to try and cover the smell of his precious hoard, because, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes that he keeps going in there to find those silly things - which have probably disintegrated in all the rain by now anyway.