How can I keep my puppies out of my flower beds?

These puppies are driving me crazy. They have destroyed most of the plants outside my door. I tried putting them in a fenced area, but they just dig out and get right back in the flower bed. What can I put in the flower bed to make them stay away from it? I did have a plant that keeps them away, but I can't find those anymore.

How can I keep my puppies out of my flower beds?
When the neighbors decided 14 dogs was just exactly the right number of dogs to have, their puppies liked to lie in my cool shady flowerbeds. I'm an animal lover and have 9 cats and 1 dog of my own, but their dogs destroyed all my plants and defecated everywhere.





I sprinkled (thickly) cayenne pepper on my plants and mulch. Cayenne pepper is finely-ground red pepper.





Animals get a snootful of this hot pepper and sneeze, but it doesn't hurt them. It doesn't hurt your plants either. It also helps repel armadillos. (But not squirrels!)





I still use cayenne pepper to keep my cats out of my houseplants.
Reply:use green snow fence and posts to keep the dogs out while you can step over it . make ure to get a snow fence that you can jump over. Oh wait i just read the post a flower bed. install an invisable fence around the garden and your property boundreys itll keep your dogs out of the flowers and stop them from running away.
Reply:Oh Lordy, please don't do the moth balls. What if your dog ate one of them? I installed the 12 inch wire fences and the little buggers learned to hop over them. Now I just yell NO a lot. They're 4, 3, %26amp; 1 and they are getting the message. Also please go to the ASPCA web site and check out the list of plants that are poisonous to dogs. My pup did survived after eating star gazer lillies but a lot of the other plants got pulled out. Now my dogs are safe in the garden but I'm not sure if the garden is safe with the dogs. Yuk Yuk
Reply:i understand, my dog used to do the same thing.





what we ended up doing is putting up a short (like 8 inches high) decorative dark green (dark green blends in with our plants) fencing type stuff. its not exactly a fence, i guess. but it doesnt look bad, and it keeps him out.
Reply:This worked for me. I have 10 Min Pins....They haven't been back in any of the flowers outside. I put moth balls around the edges of the plants. So far no dogs and plants are alive. Plus I also heard that moth balls keeps snakes away(that's a plus).
Reply:maybe sprinkling some cayenne pepper in the bed would help