Oh Jack, you have GOT to be the cutest fishermen I've ever laid eyes on!

My Buddy has a MASSIVE fear of loud noises and has had that fear since I adopted him.
We've passed up Acepromazine, and now he's on Valium.
Regular human Valium.
In order to keep my house, myself and Buddy in one piece through a storm, I have to give him 2 1/2 pills 2 hours before a storm but that doesn't always happen. Once he starts freaking out, it's already too late to give him pills because his adrenaline is already pumping and the pills are useless.
He barks his full head off, scratches and jumps at doors, bites door handles, jumps on me, etc. I've been bruised and battered many times! He's broken out glass windows and has gotten stitches. He's no different if he's in his crate; he's broken out of his crate several times during a storm.

I've had a reading done with Nancy and she says his fear comes from when he was young. He was found in the woods, like someone had dumped him off so he was in the woods with no shelter from storms, or maybe he was shot at when he was running? Who knows... I may never know for sure.
But I now spend my day checking the weather channel 10-15 times a day watching for storms to pop up, or figuring out when to run home and give him his pills.

Often times people say to use a cd with the sounds of a storm to desensitize the dog to noises, that works well.... as long as it's only the actual noise that the dog fears. In Buddy's case, he'll start freaking out an hour or so before a storm because he reacts to the pressure change in the atmosphere. Just last night, my hubby was watching movie and there was thunder and lightning in it and Buddy never even flinched.

But Jack... being that it's started out of nowhere makes it a weird. (then again, he IS weird and that's why we love him! )
Also with his fear of men...
I wish I knew what to tell you.

Maybe a reading with Brody's Mom could help!