Things You'll Need
- Spray bottle
- Water
- Cayenne pepper
- Brown vinegar
- Spoon
- Shovel
- Gloves
- Citronella oil
Instructions
Spray brown vinegar or citronella oil. Mix 1 part brown vinegar or citronella oil with 10 parts fresh water in a spray bottle. Squirt a fine mist onto table legs, the base of furniture or the bottoms of doors. The pungent aroma of vinegar or the citrus smell of citronella will naturally repel dogs.
Sprinkle cayenne pepper. Shake a spoonful of ground cayenne pepper over bags of garbage, for example. The natural sting of the smell will scorch a dog's nostrils and induce sneezing.
Bury the dog's feces to stop it from digging. Scoop up fresh dog droppings and drop them in a flowerbed or garden hole, for example, that the dog is digging. Bury the dropping with the removed soil. The smell emanating through the soil will prevent the dog from further digging.