Terrified Dog on the 4th of July

**zoomer** · 07-02-2006, 11:51 PM

Sorry I've been posting like crazy, I've just got a lot of things to post about

On the 4th of July Alaska is absoulutly terrified! The fire works really scare him to death. Whenever he hears them, he starts howling, and barking, and hiding. Last July he jumped the kennel fence and chewed the door knob until he got inside. Is there something we can do to prevent this? Some kind of medicine or something...?

**Flatcoatluver** · 07-02-2006, 11:59 PM

Keep her and all the animals inside. I might get flamed by saying this but saying stuff like Alaska, it's alright make's everything worse, basically making a big deal about it makes it worse.
ETA: At our dog kennel we have a really loud fan and the dogs don't hear anything over that.

**Aspen and Misty** · 07-03-2006, 12:03 AM

I would bring him inside, it's not fare to leave him outside, it's not like he knows whats going on. If you aren't going to be home I would put him in a safe place (inside kennel or your bedroom) and play LOUD music. Hopefully he won't be able to hear the fire works. This works for a foster dog I had that was terrified of lightning. I would put her in my bedroom and turn on the T.V. really loud, she just slept through the whole storm.

Also, people do stupid stuff on July 4th, I would never leave any animals unattended outside. Even my dog's get supervised potty visits. Teenage boys think it's fun to tie fire crakers to dog's and cats tails and watch them run.

Ashley

**zoomer** · 07-03-2006, 12:06 AM

Thank you

Originally Posted by Aspen and Misty

Teenage boys think it's fun to tie fire crakers to dog's and cats tails and watch them run.

Ashley

That's terrible!

**IRescue452** · 07-03-2006, 06:35 AM

I'd bring the dogs inside, especially if your neighborhood has a lot of people who do bottle rockets and roman candles. Me and Autumn only go to the dog park during firework season, we never go for walks around town. Last year we went for a walk in daylight in the afternoon and when we walked past a hedge a bottle rocket came shooting past us at eye level only a foot away from my head. Yesterday the neighbors shot a roman candle and a large burning piece of cardboard landed on the other neighbor's roof, luckily it fell off instead of starting a fire. Its not worth it to leave a dog outside while all this is going on, especially one at risk of running away and getting hurt.

**animal_rescue** · 07-03-2006, 07:18 AM

Both my RB German Shepherds were terrified of firecrackers. Hannah would jump the fence and take off, once she tried to jump threw someone's window trying to get in the house! On the 4th we kept them in the basement and gave them sedatives the vet gave us. You might want to talk to him about some for her.