Who else is watching this on a thunderstorm

My puppy is scared to death. I hope this helps my sweet baby.

I’m sitting with my dog in my laundry room while he’s shaking and crying. There is super loud fireworks. I’m blasting “watermelon sugar” and spongebob in the backround. He doesn’t go outside even when he really had to go potty.

Its a thunderstorm i cant sleep and my dog cant sleep the only thung we can do now is EAAAAT

There's really loud thunder rn, so I'm lying in bed and cuddling w my doggo and keeping her wrapped in blankets. I find that keeping the room dark rlly helps.

I'm not a dog, but I need a way to calm myself during a storm

i don’t even have a dog i’m just scared of thunderstorms myself

So, during thunderstorms, I've learned my dog is alot like a scared child and wants a blanket and cuddles

My dog acts like a mountain goat

This has helped multiple times, my dog is an anxious breed and has trouble calming down during thunderstorms and Fireworks. After a few minutes, he can sleep peacefully as he doesn't sleep during storms or fireworks. Thank you ♥️

my dog is hiding in his “den” right now (behind the couch) and im with him, it’s thundering a LOT RIGHT NOW. im petting him and i have a blanket around him and hes shaking a little.

Just your voice put my dog at ease haha! She’s sleeping FINALLY!

It’s nearly 4 am and I’ve been handling my dog for the past three hours during this storm I’m having. He’s scratching everything, whimpering, panting and pacing around. I seriously hope this helps. I have a big day ahead of me, and I don’t need this rn lol

My poor baby has found out about fireworks yesterday, I'm glad to know that her little closet cave I made for her is helpful

That is a brilliant advice. We are already using a crate and will give a t-shirt a go too. Thank you for sharing your experience again with us 🤗

I have a 7 year old Akita who has been absolutely petrified of thunderstorms his whole life. I have tried EVERYTHING from thunder shirts, crates, oils, vet prescribed pills, loud music to drown out the thunder, having play time to try and give positive/distracting time during the scary times. Yup you name I've been there and nothing works, essentially all I can do is put him on a leash and force him to stay by my side during the storm, I pet him and talk to him to let him know I'm beside him. I'm just saying this to let the desperate people out there know that sometimes there is just nothing you can do and you just have to live with a scared dog

Happy to see I’ve done all of these. Maybe I’ll set up a calming essential oil vaporizer next time. Which will be tonight. Memorial weekend in the USA. Lots of fireworks I’m sure. 🙁

First time my 9 month old puppy heard thunderstorm she couldn't stop barking. Nothing worked to calm her down. So I thought of changing her mind out of it. Since she likes to eat and finding stuff, I took out some paper cups, placed a small piece of treat inside one and let her find it. It worked really well, we kept doing that for almost 30mns and she didnt notice the thunder anymore. After she felt tired and just went to sleep.

I think every time it rains, we should give them treats and praise them when they calm down. I am sure, every time it rains, they will associate rain with something positive.

Thank you for this information, I'm dealing with my golden retriever mix and her panic attacks during storms and fire works. Thank you!

My little multipoo is sitting on my lap shaking and panting really hard. This vid is a lifesaver. Tysm

Very helpful video indeed thank you.

I saw a cute clip where a dog was comforted during a storm by a cat. The two were best friends and the cat laid next to the dog with loud purring. It had a very relaxing effect on the dog.

Great tips! Thank you so much! I’m not sure if this would work for any other dog but I’ve found that playing with our dog during thunderstorms or when there are fireworks nearby has helped calm her down. I guess she’s really more distracted than actually comforted. Doesn’t work very well on our cat though 🙁

I have a thundercoat and it works wonders. I was pleasantly surprised. My boy asks for it now during thunderstorms and fireworks

Alexa has been my BEST friend with my dogs and foster dogs. She lulls my puppy to sleep every night with cricket sounds. She was born in the woods of a homeless camp. It sooths her so very much. and that sooths me :)

Thank you so much

too cute 😍 great 💡 ideas

I created a den with the blanket and he’s not shaking anymore tysm I well go ahead and subscribe 😍😍

Thank you!

I don’t have a thunder shirt but I put one of my son’s old t-shirts on my dog that is a little snuggly! I wrapped him in a blanket and he’s got some extra blankets and towels to snuggle up to. He’s at least not panting anymore. Thank you!

This really helped my dog

Thanks!

Thanks 🙏

love these ideas.

Had my dog at the dog park when a storm rolled in once. She was having too much fun to care. She was good until the next summer. Obviously wouldn't recommend as some dogs may take off or perhaps become aggressive. But for mine it did help. But I am looking for a more permanent solution, I shall try the TV one I read here.

Perfect for the 4th July prep with a nervous pup. Loud music it is.

My dog is scared of everything, really hope that this helps him

My pit bull lab mix is so scared.. we have to give him calming hemp could it be because he was an outside dog before we got him?

So far, my 9 month old puppy has been ok with thunder and farther away fireworks. Unfortunately, last night (4th of July), we happened to be outside for a potty break when our immediate neighbor started setting off fireworks 😒 so it was extremely loud and she could see the bright red light whizzing through the sky very close to us. Understandably, she freaked out and was losing it during those very close fireworks and had a hard time the rest of the night. What worked for us (suggested by my awesome SIL) was grabbing treats and doing some simple commands: sit, down, shake, look at me. It distracted her and allowed me to give her treats and praise for doing something good, and seemed to comfort her without reinforcing a distressed reaction to the loud fireworks.

One thing I've done that helps is covering my little guy in blankets. It's not the best solution, because he still shakes when he pokes his head out to see what's happening. But it's been the only thing that has worked so far.. I'm going to take him in to have a thundershirt fitted for him. It just breaks my heart. He's 8 years old and has just started having anxieties in the past year.

Tks 👍

just swaddled her with her fav blanket and layed her next to me with her stuffy💪💪 shss fine now

My dogs ears are always back when she is scared, and thunderstorms are definitely one of the reasons. She loves treats, and will eat one every time I offer one. I always pet her, and comfort her during storms, but I doesn’t work. I always give her a treat, but she never wants it.

MY puppy is so scared of the garage truck . I’ve even tried playing loud truck videos but nothing works any suggestions? I do crate him when I know they are coming . Will he ever get used to the loud sounds?

My 85 lb Hunti Munti is a train wreck with fireworks and thunderstorms. I have prescribed medication but it does take awhile to take affect. I turn on KZfaq to 528 HZ music and wrap him in a weighted blanket. He still needs me by him but he does slow down his breathing and doesn’t pace or hide

I have two dogs, a pyranese mixed with Saint Bernard, she’s 17 months old and just fine during storms, but our 6 year old lab/collie mix is absolutely terrified by storms, she opens her mouth and hang her tongue and pants during storms.

Thx

My dog has a thunder shirt! But he is still kinda scared though, does putting a towel on the bottom of a bunk bed work as a den? Also he loves my brothers room? Does he think it’s a den? He won’t leave.

Train the fear out of them EARLY ON. Some owner's efforts to comfort their dog actually makes it a lot worse. For example, changing your voice to a high pitched, repetitive tone when you hear the fireworks/thunder can misguide your dog into thinking you're anxious too. Think about it; high pitched, repeating words sound very much like whimpering! Avoid! Saying "OOoooOoh noooo! Fireworks?! It's ok it's ok it's ok come here come here herehere babybabybaby," is going to give your pup anxiety. Keep your voice steady, slow and soft, NOT excitable. Dont even acknowledge the fireworks or thunder. Dont look at the dog when the noise strikes. Meeting their gaze when they're fearful actually sends them the wrong message, that the noise is something to be fearful of. If the fireworks continue without a pause, just wait a few seconds and move in a steady, slow and deliberate way. Your dog will be watching you if they've hidden in the same room. The dog's response is partly learnt by picking up on your energy. Dont utter a word, dont look at the dog and dont pause what your doing when the noise starts. Wait a few seconds after the first bang, flash or rumble before acting. Dont pick your dog up, dont go to the windows or doors. These things put your dog in defensive mode. Instead, get a toy, some treats and get your dog working on earning a reward instead of just hugging them under a blanket. Keep them busy. If they break off due to more noise, ignore it and continue with the task/game. Dont get angry. Don't drag your dog out of hiding. If they wont willingly engage in the game, change the game so that the desired behaviour is more attainable. Like have them give you their paw for a treat or groom them in their safe place/hiding place as best you can. Reward with treats and praise if they independently move position in a way that makes grooming easier. Like moving towards you or showing their belly can be praised gently and calmly. Plenty of treats should be to hand! It's also important to establish a 'safe place' for your dog, preferably as a puppy by crate training. But they can learn at any age. A crate with a blanket draped over it makes a secure den. I personally prefer the fabric crates because my terrier once got her foot trapped between the bars of a metal one when she was a bouncy puppy. Luckily I was right there to see it (and hear it! 😭). Fabric ones are also lighter, easier to move, more affordable and more comfy if you want to squeeze in with your puppy during training. Seriously! Going to their den for treats and toys is a great way to teach them the crate is their safe space. Go look up videos on crate training. Before long, your dog wont care about fireworks.I can walk my 3 little dogs at night and not worry about a surprise Nov/Dec/Jan firework display! They dont give it a glance, but they do expectantly want a treat!

Wow thank you for these tips! My dogs Are Literly jumping On me because there are thunderstorms.🤣

the blanket wrapping one worked for mine, she has anxiety, and hates loud noises and cries if you yell at her, it was thundering so i swadled her in a soft blanket that was on my closet floor

Can you mention what essential oils can be used? We have an elderly dog and she gets so nervous even with the sound of rain, without thunder, and we can't manage to calm her dow. Even siting on us, tightly bundled in a blanket and us talking to her softly and petting her, she kips trembling and hiperventilating.

only had our dog for 3 weeks she is terrified just found out right now poor dog didn't know where to go the crate idea sounds perfect!

I have has GREAT success with Hampl “Thunder-eze”. My two labs fall asleep in 5 minutes. They are hunters so i concluded it wasn’t the noise but atmospheric pressure changes. I swear by thunder-eze

Fortunately my guy is pretty chill with thunder and fireworks, but my friends lab had a really bad scare from a nearby lightning strike when a pup, and now trembles anytime loud noises occur. Seems like PTSD as I have military family with it. They’ve recently begun to treat their PTSD with CBD (non-THC) with really good results. Any thoughts?

We have a homeopath that helps our dog because she's becoming stiff in her hips, probably due to stress, and around New Year's (when fireworks are allowed in the Netherlands) she gave us something that helped her enormously. I don't know what it's called, but every time she was shaking and really stressed out we could let her sniff it, and she calmed down almost instantly. So homeopathy is also something you could look into when dealing with stressed animals! Actually, our cat was also a lot calmer because the dog was calmer :)

Hello, I have a dog but it has his home in the backyard, has a nicely build comfy home. On short, my dog doesn't stays in the house, and as many of you, my dog is terrified of thunderstorms. Is there any way of comforting it without getting in the house?

My dog was never scared before then lightning hit a pole like a half a block away from us and since then he has been super scared. Now he gets so scared anytime there’s Thunder. He starts to shake, his heart beats quickly, and he starts in a corner looking terrified. I want to help him so I am looking for ways to do that.

My dogs stay outdoors most of the time, as we have a really big yard. They are scared of loud noise but they tend to jump the gates (they have to jump through 2 gates) and run outside when they're scared. When we're at me we try different soothing techniques, but often times just being around us will soothe them. The problem is when we're not there to soothe them, say we're at work or something. Is there anything we can try in this case? We don't want to lock them up all the time

PLEASE HELP... we have a crate... We have the Thundershirt. Even with the medication from the Vet she still get all nervous. Nothing really completely calms our mix Lab-pointer. Specially when is 2 am and the storm still not audible for us...we know the storm is coming because she jumps on the bed (which normally Don't). We can't hide the trembling of the house when the thunders strike... Close or far. What can we do????

I picked up a weighted blanket at Goodwill and put this my dog in our downstairs small bathroom with some noise… It seems to help

In Australia cyclone season lasts from about November to April (around then) and where I live there’s a major cyclone once a year. Sometimes we get a little thunder and rain, and this year we had a category 4 cyclone (it was category 5 at sea I live near sea) and they commonly come every March so yeah. I don’t remember if my dog was scared but we made sure to hug and comfort them. Jesse is an outside dog and she is a border collie. Our other dog Tommy is a chihuahua. They’re both so cute lol I love them. Uhhhh I don’t know why I’m rambling on bye I’m tired merry christmas

Thank you!!! Fireworks tonight and my dog is sooo scared

I get down on the ground and lay with my elderly ridgeback. He gets absolutely terrified during thunderstorms. It isn’t perfect, but he feels safer when he is in direct contact.

Chopper still struggles with loud thunder even though I have tried as much as I can to desensitize with recordings of thunder and treats. Also the crate doesn't help. So, what I have found helps is to break the anxious mind. What really focuses him is heeling. So, I'll ask him to heel a few times around the house and then back to place (his bed) and he's no longer anxious. I may need to do it a few times before he finally fully breaks through that anxeity and relaxes. I do this when he's afraid of something in the enviroment as well and while he's working. We also do a lot of confidence boosting things. A confident dog is not a scared dog. He's not as bomb proof as most would like in a service dog candiate but we work with it and thunder is really his biggest issue. Everything else he really takes in stride and comes to get used to it pretty quickly. Im not sure why thunder is different. But we work with it.

The crating works best for my dog, though even then he still is anxious and will paw at the door. But if I let him out he panics even worse. So next time I’ll try putting a blanket over the crate ❤

Playing with my dog seems to help a lot when she’s stressed about storms or fireworks just kind of talk to her or him “ I’m gonna get it” etc but you have to sound excited

i actaully comfort my dog i put him on top of a chair and i just pat him and pet him untill he is not afraid and after that i just feed him a little i dont know if thats right cause my dog is just 2 months and i actaully putted him in a cage and putt a blanket but my dog was crying cause he does not like that he is in a cage what should i do after that?

Can you make like a little blanket for form by me sitting on the couch and then then them kind of Denny inside that like it

Well I did totall opposite of they say todo. I couldnt set there and let them shake, do grabbed them up and we cuddle together. So my dogs are 9 & 7 and have never been in a crate. If I put them in one here at the house they would scratch like crazy to get to me. I mite could try the vest thing.

Hi! What shall I do if my dog is the opposite? She runs outside the house up and down chasing the big nothing with barking when thunder sounds and lightning strikes. She is on level 200% . How can I calm her down? (she is mixture of a fox terrier and a jack russel) Thank you in advance!

While watching this video, I left her in a small dark bathroom and for now she sounds very calm....

Does this work with mini pinture

Just tried playing classical music and it REALLY helps. My dog is usually panting, restless, shaking. The music is on loud, and she is resting. I have tried other music without success.

My local pet store sells CBD oil for dogs, I'm wondering what the thoughts are about this ?

I don’t have any of these things and my dog hates when I hug him so I’ll just be up till this thunder is over. Goodbye sleep 😭😞😂

My kelpie x bordercollie hates thunder she barks continually racing up and down the fences. She's not scared but just wants to get it and protect us. She's an outside dog and even putting her in the shed doesn't stop her?

4th of july into a storm! Just what my dog wanted

I'm cuddling my dog and she stopped shaking and I'm drowning out the rain and its helps alot

The ding notification on my iPhone triggers my miniature schnauzer as well as storms, rain and fireworks.

Let dog into a room further from lightening, it was outside the kitchen where I was preparing vegetables. Let my parents dog in the sitting room pulled the curtains.. He's allowed in there and was terrified. Petted him. Hate it myself. Does the same thing I do gets into corner.

Might playing thunder/fireworks sound effects near them work? It might allow them to get more used to it until an actual storm becomes second nature.

I put ablankint around my dog and I put on recluse love of God and I cuttle her and it seemed to help so

I was so prepared last 4th of July. Had a new pup, I chopped up an ENTIRE pack of hot dogs so I could treat during fireworks. My puppy didn't bat an eye at ANY of the fireworks. Not the screamers, the machinegun poppers, the aerial show, nothing. He was like, "Oh, this is interesting... Okay, I'm bored now, gonna take a nap." I was so stoked. But what a waste of hot dogs. LOL! If he wasn't trained to verbal commands already, I would have thought he might be deaf! :D

I think it is a good idea to go to like they're safe spot and stay with them that is what I'm currently doing right now that is why I'm sitting in a bathroom with a dog on my foot and another dog behind the toilet

What can you do if you don’t have the creat or anything else

I have an old beagle who has gone deaf and is now scared in thunderstorms. I find it helps to just lie next to him and place my legs on his back. I don't know why it works but he always seems to calm down

I found that my hound calms with swaddling and close contact during thunder storms. She's just petrified from the flashes from the lightning.

Putting your dog under a blanket and keeping one hand or two hands on them at all times

i actually tried the first 3 methods still my dog is scared any other options?

People are constantly setting off fireworks in my neighborhood. it sucks and I use a weighted blanket for my dog. I wrap her in it like a burrito and lay next to her for about 10 minutes and she calms down

So another way is where you go In a corner and make a lil tent home thing and cover with blanket and stay there with the dog hopefully that helps that's what I'm doing rn to

I tried to hold my dog for a little bit. And tell her everything is going to be OK and she calm down pretty quickly but doing fireworks we had to give her Xanax because the men are calm her down and she hears a firework she start shaking again so I have no choice but to give her Xanax.

Both of my dogs are just TERRIFIED of lightning, not thunder but lightning, they just shake and I hope this helps them

What helps my small dog is just holding my dog close to my chest and it really helps him

it actually worked with my dog

My dog is scared of pops thunder rain or gunshots and it makes me sad seeing her scared and i am willing to try to teach her how to calm her down

My family have a dog that is scared of stuff but he not scared of ppl he needs to be trained can u help me with my family dog they stay on the go all the time

What can I do avput a dog that gets on with the cat, walks with the cat, loves the cat...... but then attacks the xat when I feed the cat