How your pets respond to storms.

[ToBeEvergreen]

How do your furry/feathered/scaly/prickly? friends respond to storms? In light of Hurricane Irene, I thought I'd ask. Any storm stories?

[happylabs]

My three cats do not seem to be affected by any type of storm. They do seem to love watching the snowflakes come down in winter time. They seem fascinated by that. As far as thunder and lightning they don't seem to notice it.

I often wonder why some dogs are so very afraid of thunder and lightning and others are not. I don't remember any of my Labs ever minding storms. I worked with a woman who had a Great Dane she had to medicate if a bad storm was coming.

[sana]

I live very far away from the place where Hurricane Irene is coming. But, when it rains or is cold, One Down makes sad sounds and whines :(

[Freedom]

Tasha has been nervous for 2 days now, I think she picks up on the drop in pressure. She hates thunder, so it will be a tough day for her today.

Some of the cats love to watch the blowing out the windows, but at some point it got too much, most of them have moved down cellar now.

The other dogs don't seem too bothered - yet. We do have one good sized tree limb down in the back yard -- Willy spotted that immediately this morning when they went out to pee. He barked at it, all his hackles up -- he knew it didn't belong there! :D

[Alysser]

Mikey is absolutely terrified. He barks all day if it's thundering out. It's ONLY thunder and lightning though. Last night during Irene, he wasn't barking or crying or anything because there wasn't thunder. He was put on Xanax for it, didn't work, and then she offered him some kind of sedatives for both thunder and fireworks and it didn't work. If anything it made him MORE hyper.

[chocolatepuppy]

Layla is terrified of storms. She hides in the bathrom.:(

[ToBeEvergreen]

Mikey is absolutely terrified. He barks all day if it's thundering out. It's ONLY thunder and lightning though. Last night during Irene, he wasn't barking or crying or anything because there wasn't thunder. He was put on Xanax for it, didn't work, and then she offered him some kind of sedatives for both thunder and fireworks and it didn't work. If anything it made him MORE hyper.

Poor guy. Yeah, there wasn't any thunder or lightening during Irene. Which was good, seems to scare some of the fur-pets.

It is odd how some are so sensitive to it and others aren't!


We do have one good sized tree limb down in the back yard -- Willy spotted that immediately this morning when they went out to pee. He barked at it, all his hackles up -- he knew it didn't belong there! :D

:D "Move branch, get back in that tree, NOW!".

My crew are fine, unless (for the dogs) it starts to thunder. Taffy gets jumpy with things that sound like fireworks.

Lots of love all around to them all, the storm is over now! :)

[cassiesmom]

Cassie, my cat, will hide under my bed or in her special spot in the closet. She doesn't like any loud noises (thunder, fireworks).

[pomtzu]

Storms don't faze Myndi in the least. She slept thru the earthquake in her usual spot under my desk, and only protested having to go out in the rain during the hurricane because she didn't want to get wet, and thunder doesn't bother her at all.

Sparky seems to be outgrowing the fear of thunder that he developed a few years ago. He no longer cries and wants to be picked up at the first little rumble. I don't even have the foggiest, where in the house he was during the earthquake, and he didn't like the heavy rain and wind gusts of the hurricane when I took them both out. Other than that, it didn't bother either one of them.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Two of my dogs are afraid of storms, the rest don't mind them. None of them are too happy if they need to go out to potty in the rain, though.

My horse, Ruby, hates getting wet so she stands under cover where she can stay nice and dry. Our boarder horse, however, loves to run and play in the rain and often tries to convince Ruby to come play too.

My chickens don't really like getting wet either and they also stay under cover when it's raining.

The rest of my crew never seems fazed by storms at all.

[lvpets2002]

:) Most of my Cats hide under the bed & or in the closet.. My Cats bring out the True Meaning of Scardy Cat!!

[Charlie08]

my cats are usually ok with storms unless there is a lot of very loud, or sudden thunder, then they take off into a closet or under the bed!

[happylabs]

I posted this pic in another thread. Here's Buddy last Sunday night. We had the loudest thunder and lightening storm ever. What do you think? I don't think it bothers him...

http://www.petoftheday.com/talk/picture.php?albumid=401&pictureid=4676

[Charlie08]

i don't know, he looks pretty upset to me....:)

that is one relaxed boy!