Keegan just started getting anxious during thunderstorms last year, when she was 6!
I think it came up rather sudden, we got some pretty severe storms and it caused a lot of Flooding in Findlay, so I don't know if it was the intensity of the storms or what. She just pants, paces, and scratches the floor. She likes to go into the bathroom when there's a storm I dunno why b/c there is a window in the bathroom, altho it is a small one.
She has never been around fireworks so I am not sure what she would do, but I don't want to find out either! I took Keegan to a parade once and she was freaking out big time, especially when the Band and the Fire Trucks and Ambulances went by with the sirens on.
My neighbors have a 10 pound shih tzu that is TERRIFIED of storms and loud noises. Air compressors, fireworks, car backfires. She has to be medicated during storms and it with her being so small, you can give her the pill whenever and it relaxes her, but may not be before she has torn up linoleum on the floor. My neighbor called me a few months ago to ask me to go over and give her a pill. They don't usually go anywhere over the 4th of July and they are BIG TIME campers, b/c of the fireworks people let off at the campgrounds.
Air Compressors have caused her to take off like a bat out of you know where and there has been a couple times when there is a loud clap of thunder that is unexpected, she has taken off and they have had to get in the car and find her and a couple times people several streets over have found her in their garage! But she is like Buddy as well, she reacts to the air pressure changes.
I agree with Angie, maybe a talk with Brody's mom or Nancy would be in order.