fireworks and dogs

[timbernut]

Friend of mine has a special music cd that interferes with the sound of the explosions seems to work as they no longer **** everywhere (lives in Sheffield and says its relentless)

 

 

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[Lazurus]

Makes sense:thumbup1: would the "potion" for calming contain alcohol by any chance? the dog may have to fight me for it:laugh1:

 

Ketamine!

[shendy]

My dog used to get exited. Looking for pheasants. When the fireworks went off.

[Mark Bolam]

My lab does that when I fire my 12 bore Shendy.

There's usually none there then, either.

 

 

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[54gka]

You can get some sort of calming pill from the vets.

[AdamL]

My wife is a vet and we give our calmex from vets. Works well.

 

 

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[Chris Sheppard]

Our Husky is terrified of fireworks so we usually put a radio on in the evening in the outhouse with it a few days before and keep turning the volume up a bit each day and whilst it's never going to drown it out, it muffles it a bit and unless the fireworks are really close it's usually OK.

 

If it's really loud or prolonged, we'll let it in the living room and that usually sorts it.

 

Usually have to wait until quite late before we put it back in it's kennel though.

 

The patterdale's finally gone deaf so she's no bother now - loud noises never really used to bother it other than make it bark a bit and the old spaniel used to get excited and sit and watch them going off.

[Warners]

Fireworks are a real problem... it's not just dogs.. but also horses, farm stock, etc...

[Gary Prentice]

None of ours bother with them when indoors. I noticed that this evening while we were out they were stopped and just watching them in the sky.

 

Guess we're just fortunate

[aidan90]

Came across this thread and was concerned about the pets being scared of fireworks that are in need of help.

 

Here's a really useful guide about dogs and fireworks. Most people recommend to create a 'safe place' where your animals can go to hide when they get stressed. There's also some great calming pills, sprays and even treats out there that can help!