- Location
- East Sussex
Thank you for taking the time. He had been very well used to noises in the past, not necessarily gun shots but certainly fireworks as we used to take him to the village display For a few years as a pup and as he grew. The initial fright of noise started a few Christmas ago when we opened some crackers and each contained a little bell for playing the bells as a table game. The bells hit the floor and gave the dog one hell of a fright and now won't be near the table if we have a meal with the whole family (in laws etc). This progressed onto not liking parcel packaging which I can pin down to the 5 year old popping the air bubbles. Now he won't come to the field when we burn said packaging Which usually would be a good chance for a run around but he is improving in this respect and now has a good run and roll whilst being inspected by the heifers as they're best buddies. Doing our best to avoid unnecessarily moving boxes etc in the house as well as letting him rip them up for play.
we actually enjoy thunder and have encouraged the little girl to enjoy it too in the hope of avoiding her being scared of thunder but perhaps the 'oohs' and 'ahh's' when we line up outside looking at the flashes and rumbles has encourage the dogs negative behaviour. The OH bought loads of adaptil potions online early the other morning whilst being frantically barked at during a thunder storm and to my surprise the collar actually worked yesterday afternoon..... the dog was so zonked out I actually took the collar off because I was concerned he was too dopey. So we shall see but it seems we have found some sort of homeopathic solution for the minute.
