OK its that season again. The dog literally crapped itself at New Year due to the fireworks in the area although he was only 3 months old at the time.
A colleague has just advised that her normal placid dog has just chewed its way through a door due to the noise of the fireworks going off.
So what are the trade secrets about how to deal with this? Loud music to drown out the noise, sedatives, spliffs???
Any advice is appreciated!
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Our 11 year old R/Ridgeback always freaks out when the bangers begin, I allow him up on the sofa next to me so as to reassure him, only got one 70 year old neigb now, so should be OK?
I’ve heard good reports of Skullcap and Valerian, if he had to go to vets anytime, I’d use that to calm the poor critter.
www.dogpages.org.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=182794
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'Stinky' will as every other moment of the year (except when out chasing squirrels, rabbits, cats, butterflies or anything else that moves) be within 2ft of SWM and content.
She, the dog, will sleep through it all.
Just keep them close for reassurance.
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Get them used to the fireworks...tie a rip-rap to the tail every day for a week or so prior to Nov 5th.
Only kidding, Pat :-)
( A Roman candle's better )
Ted
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I should think so too:)
Pat
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>> Get them used to the fireworks...tie a rip-rap to the tail every day for a
>> week or so prior to Nov 5th.
Is that what we used to call a jumping cracker or jumping jack?
EDIT - www.creagan.net/fireworks/jumpingcracker/jumpingcracker.html
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Fri 14 Oct 11 at 14:29
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Yup, Brompy. That's a rip-rap.
We used to buy ours, though !
Ted
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They think its thunder, dogs hate thunderstorms. Fifi, who as a gundog stands on the gun line happily while flocks of birds are murdered by shell fire, is a nervous wreck come firework season.
Now as its thunder, they like to be sheltered, something over them. Fifi comes in to shelter between the two armchairs, I cover her with a blanket so just her head is out, and we pass the time in relative calmness.
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The other thing I used to do 'on the night' in Truro was to take Milo to bed,
Not in the bed (I'm not Swiss!) but on his bed, then shut the bedroom door - proper 1930's door, like.
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As a kid our family had a very gentle St Bernard who would turn into a shivering heap at the sound of thunder storms or fireworks. Being very young at the time I was often tipped off a kitchen chair as she tried to get under or behind it. Typical boys toys like cap guns were not allowed in the house.
Our last Dobermann was completely different and hardly bothered when a tree about 100 yards away was struck by lightning while out on a walk. It had me worried as we had just passed under the tree. (She certainly wasn't deaf as a rustle of her biscuit box would gain attention from the bottom of the garden).
Strangely she would be terrified of the noise of the burners from low flying hot air balloons.
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When I first had this crazy hound of mine, I made a point of exposing him to walks on bonfire night and all the other excuses for letting fireworks off - doesn't bat an eyelid - beyond watching the displays with more than a passing interest. Dogs are very different.
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>> The other thing I used to do 'on the night' in Truro was to take
>> Milo to bed,
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>> Not in the bed (I'm not Swiss!) but on his bed, then shut the bedroom
>> door - proper 1930's door, like.
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Please clarify.... I have NEVER taken any animal to bed!
Well... there was one young lady (a WPC!) now she WAS an animal in bed........
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No offence meant tony, and it's a beautiful dog anyway (nudge, wink)
"A MAN who fell in love with his dog "wooed" the pet with chocolate drops and candlelight before sex sessions.
The 25-year-old admitted romping with his male Appenzeller dog called Blaessli since 2008.
He wore the dog's COLLAR to court in Liestal, Switzerland, as a sign of affection and called it "my life partner".
But he wasn't faithful — he admitted bedding two other dogs during his relationship with Blaessli.
He was given a suspended eight-month jail sentence after promising to undergo psychiatric counselling. Up to 275,000 Swiss people — out of a population of 8million — have sex with animals, a survey claimed last year"
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3872060/Pet-sex-man-wooed-dog.html
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>> Please clarify.... I have NEVER taken any animal to bed!
>> Well... there was one young lady (a WPC!) now she WAS an animal in bed........
i have been to bed with some right old dogs in my time, but none of them were canine...
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Our collie x turns into a gibbering wreck at the sound of fireworks. Will literally jump up next to us and bury his head in whatever is available. Similarly, at night he will howl and whine until he's let into the bedroom. The rest of the time, he will happily crash out on his bed in the kitchen all night.
What confuses us is that up to about 5 yrs old, he would happily potter around the garden with fireworks going off, and wouldn't bat an eyelid. It's something that's developed, and got worse with age.
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I don't think there is much you can do. They have very good hearing, and can feel the explosions anyway. Trying to comfort them will only make it worse.
Until fairly recently, I have always kept my dogs outside and never given them a second thought when I've heard fireworks going off. Sometimes they would come out of their kennels and take a look around, but nothing more. Same with thunder storms.
Now we don't have many fireworks here - only on new years eve. Plus I live some way from the village with a population of about 10 pensioners, so by midnight they're all in bed anyway. But we do get a few thunder storms. Interestingly, I now keep 2 of the dogs in the house, and neither of them now like the thunder storms. So I've concluded that the phobia is basically man made. The more we seem to think and worry about it, the more they do.
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Ours doesn't seem to bother. Clearly he hears them because his ears prick up etc but it doesn't seem to worry him.
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>>Ours doesn't seem to bother. Clearly he hears them because his ears prick up etc but it doesn't seem to worry him.<<
He's probably dug his hole too deep to worry about surface events now. (:
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>> Ours doesn't seem to bother. Clearly he hears them because his ears prick up etc
>> but it doesn't seem to worry him.
too busy spraying poo and vomit round the interior of your new merc.
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He's not getting to go in the new car until I get a bootliner for it ( just in case) He's not too bad now but still has an occasional relapse. Doesn't dig so much now either thank goodness. Trouble is Mercedes probably only do a fully retractable, voice controlled, several hundred quids worth, self illuminating bootliner...
:-)
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>> voice controlled,
Love to hear that go "Ewwwwwwwww - disgusting schweinhund"
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