English Bulldog (detailed introduction)

       The digging behavior of dogs is something everyone is familiar with. Sometimes when taking dogs out for a walk, they will perform this action on the grass. So why do dogs like to dig the ground, and what is their purpose in doing so? Some dogs do it to bury their food in the soil for preservation and retrieve it when needed, while others dig to leave their scent.

       Animals generally have special habits, and different animals have different behaviors. Some animals store food in advance to prevent "running out of food," and this habit is called food storing.

       Dogs also have the food storing habit. In the wild, dogs can often be seen using their paws to dig holes, burying animal bones inside, and then covering them with soil. It turns out that the ancestors of dogs were wild carnivores, mainly feeding on herbivores such as rabbits. Sometimes they starved because they couldn’t catch small animals. To avoid hunger, they gradually developed a habit of storing food by burying leftover small animals or other food in the soil. After long-term domestication by humans, although food is no longer scarce, the food storing habit inherited from their ancestors has been preserved.

       Therefore, dogs liking to dig the ground may be an inherited habit from the past. Of course, there are many other reasons that cause them to do this action. For example, some dogs dig the floor inside the house, which may be to grind their nails. When outside, digging may be to leave their scent because dogs have sweat glands on their paws and do this to leave a scent on the ground to mark their territory. Thus, there are many reasons why dogs dig.