This may sound terrible, but it did help us when the fireworks were so loud over the 4th of July weekend. I gave them the dog dose of Benadryl that my vet has provided for when they get itchy. It's a 50mg capsule and it truly did take the edge off. I also turned the radio on in the kitchen loud enough to drown out the firework noise, and we stayed in there with them. It seemed to settle those uneasy nerves a bit with the thunder and the fireworks. Of course, we were reassuring them a lot too, but eventually they slept through it.

Hope it doesn't sound bad that I medicated them, but it does make them drowsy and I thought it was worth it. Zipper and Lilly have problems with both thunder and fireworks, which we have had a lot of lately!