Pets and Fireworks - Safety Considerations
Wednesday June 25, 2008
The guides at About.com have come together to promote safety for you and your loved ones this summer. Your Veterinary Medicine Guide has some holiday fireworks tips to help keep your pets safe!
As many pet owners know, fireworks and thunder storms can cause a great deal of stress for some animals. Learn how to avoid stress for your pets, and tips to keep them from running when the sparks start flying.
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As many pet owners know, fireworks and thunder storms can cause a great deal of stress for some animals. Learn how to avoid stress for your pets, and tips to keep them from running when the sparks start flying.
Photo Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images
Comments
Bring your Pets inside the house. In a room with the TV turned up kind of loud so they can’t hear anything that is going on outside. Make sure they can’t get out doors. Make sure they have went potty before you bring them in so that they won’t have to go out when everything is happening. It’s a good idea for a trip to your Vet, ask about something safe to be given as a calming agent for your pet.
I agree — always best to bring pets indoors. You never know what they can do when terrified; some pets have broken through windows, etc.
Some animals benefit from being in a crate when frightened. It is a safe “den” that they can retreat to.
I recently reviewed a book and series of calming music CDs to help pet owners understand noise phobias (and just how acute dog and cat hearing is!).
Here is the book and starter CD review:
Through A Dog’s Ear
Janet DVM
I have a problem…our dog bebe is a hugh dog so we have him in a pen, plenty of room,roof to cover from rain, snow and heat..but I can’t seam to keep the darned fly off him, they drive him crazy..now he has scratched his ear with god only knows and he has a sore ( double the fly now….what can I use to heal the sore on ears and what can I do to get rid of the flies.
desperate owner and dog..