

This is when you get to bust out all the fun feeder toys! Fill up two or three with your pet’s meal and then give them one at a time throughout the evening. Give your pet some fun things to do in their safe area.Studies have also shown that the use of a body wrap like the Thundershirt or Anxiety Wrap can also help during those stressful times. Closing windows and doors, and providing some music (like the Through A Dog’s Ear CD’s) or white noise will be helpful in softening the sounds coming from outside. Keep your pet indoors in a safe area, starting a few hours before sunset.

Animals in a fearful state can go to drastic measures to escape their yards in an attempt to find safety. Make sure your pet is wearing ID tags on a properly fitting collar.Make sure that you have him or her on a leash or in a fenced in area just in case. Exercise your dog early in the day when there is little chance of fireworks going off.Here are Vyvyan’s best tips for making the Fourth of July safe and happy for everyone: To him, it was the dogpocalypse and he had no intention of getting caught up in any of that! Fortunately, there are ways to calm our furry friends and make our Independance Day celebrations less fearful and more comfortable them. I’d explain that the loud bangs and bright flashes are our way of celebrating freedom, but he’d have none of it. For a number of years at this time, my dog Vyvyan tried to convince me that the sky was falling and that we need to run for cover.
