Black Lab, 10 months old, will not stop eating plants and digging?

It doesn't sound like she's being defiant. You simply haven't trained her to do anything differently. Training a dog does not involve telling her she's bad, it involves positive and negative reinforcement, almost NONE of it verbal. Dogs don't talk with their mouths.

Since the first thing puppies have to learn is being housebroken, in the beginning everything revolves around that. Start over with her.

She should be taken outside, on a leash, and guided to the potty spot you have picked out after every meal, drink, play session and nap, and once an hour every hour. While in the house, she should be leashed to you literally: tie her leash to your belt. Talk to her, interact with her... and watch her behavior. When her nose drops and she starts to circle a bit, whisk her outside and when she goes, even if its not quite the right place, as long as its outside, praise her to the skies and give her a treat. The first time should be a jackpot: a handful of treats, with petting and praise. After that, jackpot her at random intervals.

When you can't have her with you, she should be in an airline crate, just big enough for her to lie down in. The crate should be in the middle of the household's activity: you don't want the dog to perceive the crate as exile or punishment, because it is neither. While she's in the crate, family members should visit her, talk to her, put fingers through the bars to be licked, and calmly walk away. She'll get used to being in the crate, and people walking away from her won't be traumatic. This helps prevent separation anxiety.

If you have to go to work or school, and there is no one home to take pup out, you put the bed-crate inside a larger crate or puppy pen, the floor covered with green rabbit pellets (they smell like grass, not anything inside your house). Make sure the smaller crate's door cannot be fastened shut, because you want her free to get out of the bed-crate to potty outside of it. If this isn't practical, and with a dog the size of yours it may not be, you need to arrange for someone to come and let her out, following your rules, every 3-4 hours. Crating her for longer than that without a break is not humane.

When you go to bed, take the bed-crate into your bedroom with you. Pup will feel safe enclosed in the crate and knowing that you are there, too, so she's not alone, she's unlikely to cry. Safely locked in the crate, she won't be breaking any of the other household rules, either: no chewing or digging. This means you can praise her when you get up to take her outside.

When she does wake up and whine, it will be because she has to potty: no sane dog wants to lie in her own waste. That's your cue to get up and take her outside: if you leave her caged until she has to eliminate or explode, she will learn to lie in her own waste, and once that happens, you will never be able to housebreak her.

Don't forget the leash; carry her in your arms on her back to the door to prevent accidents in the house if you have to, but make sure the leash is on her: you don't want to be hunting down a running pup at 2am in your bathrobe. Praise her when she goes, make much of her. Play a little if you want, and then everybody back to bed. Repeat for at least three months. Then experiment by letting her off leash in the house during the day, when you can watch her. Gradually gradually slowly allow her more freedom. It will take a while, but eventually you will be able to rely on her.

Puppies 8-12 weeks old can only "hold it" for 60-90 minutes.

Puppies 12-20 weeks old can "hold it" for 2-3 hours.

Puppies 20-30 weeks old can "hold it" for 3-4 hours.

The smaller crate encourages the pup to learn to "hold it" which is not something animals do naturally.

I know it sounds odd, but the Komondor columnist in the AKC Gazette a few months ago reported that, given a pan of those rabbit pellets in a corner of their whelping box, four week old Komondor pups used the litter voluntarily, with absolutely no encouragement from humans. She thinks it's the smell of grass, but it could just be that healthy pups are disinclined to play, sleep or eat near their own waste.

She's a baby, and you haven't taught her anything.

If you really feel so little for her, then contact her breeder and return her, or contact Lab Rescue.

They have plenty of people waiting for a puppy.

http://www.8pawsup.com/labrescues.html

If you want to teach her what you want her to know, here is a good book:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Good-Dogs-Should-Know/d...

Get her a crate - here are directions:

http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?A=112...

Get all of the plants out of your house - a lot of them are probably poisonous.

The reason she poops so much is that she is allowed - yes, allowed- to eat potting soil.

If you had that much fiber and dirt in you, you'd be pooping in the living room too.

Go ask your veterinarian for the name of someone who teaches puppy kindergarten and obedience.

This girl deserves to be told what is expected of her, before it's too late.

The minute you lift a hand to her, you are admitting she deserves a better home.

It's up to you, the human with the ability to read, and opposable thumbs...

Still puppy, just wait till dog get older, they will settle down, unless you willing spent thousand to take dog to training school.

Fill her holes with her own poop. She won't want to dig there. But she may move to other locations

she is just being a dog

Wait til she's older.