CC's Mom I feel your pain! Bella loves to dig, ESPECIALLY after a rain. She doesn't dig in the same place very often so my yard has lots of little craters in it right now. If I watch her the whole time she is out she will respond to NO DIG! and come over to me. If I don't watch her, I risk having another crater. Unfortunately the times I don't enjoy keeping a watch on her is in the pouring rain so I only have myself to blame. The cayenne pepper sounds good, though, and I may try it. There is one area that she does go back to at times. I'll see if it works there.