Their crates are down the basement and he'll run down there, then run back upstairs and try to break out the windows. If I shut him in his crate he barks his ever loving head off and try to break out of his crate (which he has done twice)
he freaks out so bad that I'm afraid he'll have a heartattck one day during a thunder storm.
I don't reassure him, or tell him it's okay. I ignore him as much as I can until he hurts me. I've tried keeping him on a leash and just give him a little corection when he starts to freak out. That doesn't work, he just drags me around the house!
I'm trying now to play a CD with thunder on it. We'll have to wait and see what that does.