Dogs and fireworks!
31 October 2010, 08:23 PM
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Dogs and fireworks!
I have a neurotic Lab who dives for cover in the nearest bit of undergrowth at the mearest bang of either a shotgun or at this season, fireworks.This is in contrast to my Vizsla who loves it...
Has anyone any recommendations for drops or anything else that may calm her down.
I do try and take her out at less traumatic times, but keeping her in is not an option.
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Has anyone any recommendations for drops or anything else that may calm her down.
I do try and take her out at less traumatic times, but keeping her in is not an option.
Cheers
31 October 2010, 08:45 PM
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A gun-shy gun dog? 
Oh the irony 
My Lab & Spaniel love noise so it's never any bother (spend half the time, waking the buggers up! )
My suggestion would be to pop to the vets - they'll have something to help
Good luck
Oh the irony My Lab & Spaniel love noise so it's never any bother (spend half the time, waking the buggers up! )My suggestion would be to pop to the vets - they'll have something to help
Good luck
31 October 2010, 09:06 PM
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Unfortunately, the lab was a rescue dog and my other halfs,so wasn't trained to work.
I plan to pop to the vets tommorrow.
31 October 2010, 11:52 PM
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Our lab is gun shy too, poor thing. She's a lot worse than she used to be, perhaps it's as she's older?. Maggie the weim used to love fireworks though, she'd sit there and actually watch them, most amusing.
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01 November 2010, 02:53 AM
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Another gun shy black lab owner here Ours will spend the next week in the washing machine cupboard of an evening as soon as the first bang goes off.
My girlfriend was walking her one night in a field near our house where a guy was training his gun dogs with a starting pistol. One bang from the gun and our dog turned tail and bolted home.
My girl came in to tell me that there was a nutter down the local field shooting
Ours will spend the next week in the washing machine cupboard of an evening as soon as the first bang goes off. My girlfriend was walking her one night in a field near our house where a guy was training his gun dogs with a starting pistol. One bang from the gun and our dog turned tail and bolted home.
My girl came in to tell me that there was a nutter down the local field shooting
01 November 2010, 08:29 AM
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Our two labs were OK until another black lab, a gun dog reject came to stay and was terrified by fireworks. Now we have to sit there with the television turned up VERY LOUD 
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We used to have a Westy who was terrified of them. She used to detect them long before we could hear them.
We got some tablets from the vet which helped her quite a bit in the end.
Les
We got some tablets from the vet which helped her quite a bit in the end.
Les
01 November 2010, 12:02 PM
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My chocolate Lab will be sitting on my feet for the next week or two after the first firework goes off locally. She hates them. Yet walking past a farmer who then fires off his shotgun has never bothered her, I think it's more the high pitched whistles you get from fireworks and possibly the tones we can not hear that upset them. The deep bang of a gun is a completely different noise although still loud.
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We've got a plug-in that comes with Dog Appeasing Pheromone (DAP) which we will plug into the socket next to his basket when we get a refill, but he has been cowering like a beaten dog the last few days - won't go out after dark and ends up busting come morning
01 November 2010, 09:21 PM
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I have 2 greyhounds and use a tablet called Serene-UM. I gave one of them 2 (as the directions suggested) at New Year because he was so worked up and he was almost comatose for 3 days. I think I might lessen the dose this week.
01 November 2010, 09:26 PM
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"Our" Staffi-Lab cross learnt this behaviour from my two (R.I.P.)...
Four and a half stone of jelly and dribble.
TV is going on VERY LOUD !
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Four and a half stone of jelly and dribble.
TV is going on VERY LOUD !
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01 November 2010, 10:03 PM
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Trout they fire starting pistols, use dummy launchers and most are held at Gamefairs where there are clay shoots all day etc.
She is hiding behind the TV as i type this
Her half sister isnt fussed in the slightest laying on her back at the moment waving her paws in the air
She is hiding behind the TV as i type this
Her half sister isnt fussed in the slightest laying on her back at the moment waving her paws in the air
01 November 2010, 10:06 PM
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dogs can pick out individual sounds so it is difficult to drown out the noise with out damaging their hearing.
I have found playing games to distract the dogs from the scary sounds sometimes works but you want to play really exciting games in the house
I have found playing games to distract the dogs from the scary sounds sometimes works but you want to play really exciting games in the house
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Standard Poodle here is cacking himself, turned up the tv and may have to send him to my parents for a few nights as they live in a nice area where people don't let off many fireworks. (we live in a chav infested **** hole area currently)
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