Thunder, Lightning, and Fireworks...

Thunderstorms don't bother either pup. Fireworks don't bother Shya at all. Chevy used to be terrified with fireworks but they don't seem to bother him much anymore at all which is good!

Mitzi is afraid of any strange / loud sounds. It didn't help that a couple of years ago the neighbors catty-corner to us set off firecrackers all day/night long, a couple of times when I had just taken her outside to pee. - IMMEDIATE return to the house, practially dragging me. -
We live within sound of the main roadway thru our area, and *any* strange noise from cars/trucks/motorcycles/emergency vehicles / construction / you-name-it, and she's pulling for the house.

The thunderstorm issue is bad enough that she starts pacing or trying to hide up to 15 minutes before we start to hear anything, and sometimes it doesn't even have to be thunder and lightning. - Even a good, heavy downpour will trigger her anxiety. With observing that she's either trying to dig her way to China thru my bathtub, or trying to fit herself into a space where there's no way she'll fit, we've decided that the best place for her to feel most comfortable is in her kennel, with the cover on. - It's enclosed, dark and away from most all of the noise.

This also goes as far as her not liking the flash from a camera - we don't know if her being the main picture-subject from 4 people with digital cameras in the same household made her not like lightning, or if lightning made her not like the camera flash....

Both Deejay and Fluffy are not bothered by Thunderstorms or Fireworks & both have passed gun shy tests.
Funny Deejay will sleep while a Thunderstorm is going on, but he watches Fireworks he will look up to the sky after the bang.
I think he likes them

Max is terrified of thunderstorms and fireworks. He was picked up as a stray right after 4th of July 2000 in Kentucky. He had been running loose for over a month before that. Thunderstorms are also pretty frequent and can be severe in Kentucky that time of year so I suspect he just spent about 6 weeks trying to hide from all the noises. Gun noises scare him too. So does the water hose. Dog was proabaly sprayed with water, popped with pellet guns etc to scare him off or so we suspect.

Here in Oregon we live just a mile or so from McNary Dam, one of the large dams on the Columbia River. They have fish ladders for the fish to get over the dams and when the salmon are running the birds all seem to know where the ladder entrance is and they go after the young smelt there. So the fish and wildlife guys have shotgun shells set on timers from small cannon to shoot over the water to scatter the birds. First time I took Max and Kayos down there to walk on the neat nature trails and the cannon went off, Max nearly tore my arm off. We had to go back to car and I had to take him home. Now I know when the salmon are running Max needs to stay home.

We try to play with him and distract him when we have the rare (thank goodness) thunderstorm out here and during firework season and he is somewhat better. Course I think he is also getting hard of hearing too.

Kayos and Havoc could care less.

Cherry's not bothered by any of these noises.. I can't think of any noises that scare her

Sena and Mariah are not concerned about noises, man made or otherwise. Roxi is a different dog.

If Roxi is outside thunder, fireworks, gunshots, all deep booming noises upset her. She will climb on the bistro table looking in the window letting us know there is something going on and she wants IN. On the occasions we have not been home, she has climbed the fence and lay behind the front porch swing awaiting our return. Last night there was a good thunderstorm going on, so DH broke down, and allowed Roxi got to sleep in the bedroom.