We were recently planting some tree saplings in the front yard when little Dexter arrived on the scene to show Alayne how to dig a hole properly. Not satisfied with either her technique or her speed, he decided to make her first hole deeper and wider, and then moved on to improve her second hole, too.
Daisy is too refined to get her paws dirty — "burrowing in the earth is something my forebears did," she insisted — but was on hand to lend moral support to both the digging Dachshund and digging human.
Confident he had the first hole just the way it should be, he jumped over to the second one, causing Alayne to stop digging and instead, observe a professional at work:
Here's a close-up … please note the dirt flying from his left paw:
Finished, Dexter paused — with dirt all over his snout — to admire his excavations:
After the trees had been planted, we needed to spread the rest of the gravel pile inside the area marked off by the boards. No matter how many times Alayne plopped Dexter on top of the gravel and encouraged him to get busy spreading it, he refused and scampered down. "Dachshunds dig," he said. "We don't spread."
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