The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for August 05, 2022

Thunderstorms never bothered our dogs. I have a friend who has to take her dogs to the safe room. I guess we’ve been lucky.

Ha ha. Doggies is such scaredy cats.

Anyone with highly sensitive hearing can be stressed out by a thunder storm. My eldest child is like that, so when we were expecting a storm, I’d take the kids to the largest window to watch the storm and count the lightning strokes. It really helped to reduce their anxiety. Luckily, we never had any “close calls.”

For some reason thunderstorms bypass my area most times. Which is fine by me.

3 of my 4 rescue dogs are scared of thunder and fireworks. Jack doesnt care, unless the thunder rattles the windows. Then he barks in irritation.

Describing the the dogs behavior as “scared” misses the point. The noise can be physically painful. When I was a child I had that problem with thunder and fireworks. If you got kicked in the balls after every lightening flash, you’d probably be scared too.

It’s odd that one of my dogs HATES thunder, and shakes and pants constantly whenever a storm is in the area, but his sister couldn’t care less about them.

Eleven cats & 2 dogs over the course of life, nary a one scared of thunder or fireworks. Go figger.

See a vet for some meds, it’s a kind thing to do.

With thunderstorms and fireworks, my big dog heads to the bathtub of all places. I don’t use that tub so I placed a large bathmat in it so he has some comfort. In fact, I just bought a new one since the old one was falling apart. He’s 10 now and suffers from arthritis, but the first sound of rumbling, in he goes. Meds don’t really help. I give him Benedryl if I know a storm is brewing.

I had a friend who had a German shepherd. The dog was afraid of thunder and fireworks. One day she raced home from work and found her dog “hiding” on top of her water heater!

Gracie lays beside me and shakes.

Our poor animal friends. :)

or jump on daddy’s lap and shiver and drool…

My rescued “doxiehuahua” (I will NOT say “chiweenie” LOL) is hilarious; he will raise his head and look at the ceiling and BARK at the thunder—and then look supremely smug when it stops, because his fierceness, of course, scared the boom-booms away! Good boy, Gordo!