When we adopted our two mixed breeds, they barked quite often at all the sounds of the night in their new home. However, I did not discourage this - as we wanted them to warn us if anything unusual was happening. After a few weeks, they learned when they really needed to bark and when they did not. Digging Digging is a natural canine activity, although some breeds are more prone to digging than others. Treating your dog as a family member often helps alleviate some of this.
Many puppies are diggers and tend to outgrow some of it as they grow older.
We placed small rocks in the areas they were digging and then covered those areas with a small layer of dirt. Not wanting to dig into rocks, this solved the digging around the tree problem. Your dog may still want to bury items or just dig because it seems like the thing to do. My dogs much prefer to dig in loose topsoil than our hard Texas clay. As puppies, whenever one of the dogs started to dig in the wrong part of the yard,we took the dog to the sandbox and encouraged him to dig there.