Author Topic: how did your dogs react to fireworks? (Read 5126 times)

BIGINNER · « **on:** July 05, 2011, 07:49:17 AM »

ok,... since the 4th was yesterday,.. anyone think that there dogs will be gunshy after the fireworks? i had neibors and family shooting fireworks pretty much right over my dog's kennel last night, poor dog was in the corner squealing by the time i realized that i should take him into the gaurage.

how's your guys's dogs react?

CP · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:51:27 AM »

Both of mine slept right through them.

longashes · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:54:32 AM »

Mine does horrible ... learned years ago to get sedatives from the vet for the 4th and New Years.

GoldTip · « **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:55:20 AM »

Mine did just fine. He thinks of it as gunfire and wants to be right next to me. Both myself and my buddies Choco labs needed to be put into their kennels, otherwise they'd have been trying to retrieve everything we threw, or going nuts looking for thier retrieves. Yes we were on private property and in Idaho as we were playing with fireworks.

ORCA_SIX · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:58:10 AM »

My dog kept looking for down birds.

Then she started to bark a lot. Definitely not worried about here being gun shy, she was just pissed there was nothing to retrieve.

After awhile she settled down and would bark or growl, but she went right to sleep last night. Of course it helped that I ran her 4 miles and took her swimming.

My neighborhood sounded like a war zone last night though. I couldn't believe the amount of fireworks going off around the house. I bet the streets are littered with paper, etc.

runamuk · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:59:30 AM »

when I had a bird dog he would race around looking for falling birds

until he realized it was that day where lots of shots are fired but no birds are dropped....my german shepherd would go lay in a corner and plug his ears waiting for it to all be over...my australian shepherd would try and hide in the bathtub, I slowly got him over his fear of fireworks gunshot and thunder using the guns....he still never liked fireworks but got to where he quit scaling the walls. I've had lots and lots of dogs over the years and the aussie has been the only one that seemed to ever care about fireworks

stillhunter · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:59:42 AM »

I had my pup out with me while the kids set off their fireworks show, 10 weeks old and she was rock solid except the crackling fountains, she didn't really like those, but no fear.

seth30 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 05, 2011, 08:23:09 AM »

My dogs did great with single pops, but anythign that whizzed, screamed or double popped scared them. Eneded up doing a little carpet cleaning

JKEEN33 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 05, 2011, 08:33:24 AM »

My lab was right there with us having as much if not more fun than everyone else.

huntnfmly · « **Reply #9 on:** July 05, 2011, 09:48:24 AM »

our springer slept thru it all. pretty impressed cuz it was like a war zone on our street

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #10 on:** July 05, 2011, 10:04:10 AM »

As long as he was in the house he was fine. Didn't really care what was going on outside. When I had him outside a few hours before dark tied to his rope while I weeded the garden any time someone set one off he was barking in that direction. He got plently of excersice in those 2 hours. He wasn't scared more of a I don't know what that is, not sure if it is good or bad but I am going to bark at it anyway. I love the sound of a Hound Dog going off.

akirkland · « **Reply #11 on:** July 05, 2011, 10:15:27 AM »

Not a single problem out of either of them

MP123 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 05, 2011, 10:23:15 AM »

My Brit did fine but she kept looking around for falling birds everytime fireworks went off. She probably thought it was just me missing another bird

AWS · « **Reply #13 on:** July 05, 2011, 10:29:17 AM »

Took the gang to the Beach(OS) and it was a war zone, the Greyhound and the Chahuahua curled up on the seat and slept through the whole thing. The GWP thought everything that flew when bang or made a screeming sound needed to be retriever or killed. He's a little strange anyway, one of his favorite pass times is killing bee or wasps. If he can find a ground nest he just sits and wait at the entrance and chomps them as they come out, the rest of the time he stalks the wife flwer gardens catching them. every so ofter you'll see him shake his head and lick his lips alot, you know he got stung but that just seems to make him more intent on killing the little guys.

AWS

jackelope · « **Reply #14 on:** July 05, 2011, 10:56:03 AM »

My dog was outside with us the whole time. We had some big boomers going off on our street and he barely blinked. Too many kids playing and food dropping on the ground for him to be worried about some fireworks.

vandeman17 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 05, 2011, 11:14:09 AM »

I had two labs with me yesterday, my folks chocolate lab and my black lab. My folks dog is a waterfowl dog, has been for years yet she wants nothing to do with fireworks and freaks out. We usually end up putting her in the garage or something with a radio playing. My pup could give two hoots about fireworks and just went about chewing on her bone like nothing happened.

superdown · « **Reply #16 on:** July 05, 2011, 11:33:09 AM »

My Australian shepard just sat on the porch and watched the show I don't think he really cared.

wsucowboy · « **Reply #17 on:** July 05, 2011, 11:41:15 AM »

My black lab slept right through it.

elkinrutdrivemenuts · « **Reply #18 on:** July 05, 2011, 12:17:27 PM »

My lab doesn't like them or shotgun blasts. I started shooting with him very young and he hates it. He just curls up between my legs and shakes. Do they make ear plugs for dogs? He loves retrieving, just not the boom before the duck falls.

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #19 on:** July 05, 2011, 12:18:25 PM »

My dogs were ready to go and retrieve something. They stood there marking the fireworks.

OlympicElkJunkie · « **Reply #20 on:** July 05, 2011, 01:19:02 PM »

he was doing great with the fireworks but when we broke out the 7mm ultramag he wasn't down with that and headed in the house for Momma

10Key · « **Reply #21 on:** July 05, 2011, 05:40:15 PM »

Our Brit did well. We were over in Wapato on the Rez and put on a hell of a show. He sat in my wife's lap for the entire thing and watched each mortar launch and explode. This is his second 4th experience and he "reacted" the same each time...We are lucky.

steen · « **Reply #22 on:** July 05, 2011, 05:48:49 PM »

Dogs did fine, doesn't seem to bother them. We did lock up the stud dog that was not ours in case he may try to run away. He didn't seem to be stressed about it either. Our horses seem to get over it pretty quickly, even the two babies didn't seem at all stressed out about it. The mares watch us shoot trap so they teach the babes it is no big deal. We have Arabs!

MuleySniper · « **Reply #23 on:** July 05, 2011, 05:50:42 PM »

I could shoot a .50 cal machine gun right next to my dogs and they wouldn't flinch.
Lots of missing and found animal signs up this morning on my way in to work.
MS

WA hunter14 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 05, 2011, 05:52:10 PM »

Quote from: MuleySniper on July 05, 2011, 05:50:42 PM

I could shoot a .50 cal machine gun right next to my dogs and they wouldn't flinch.
Lots of missing and found animal signs up this morning on my way in to work.
MS

found more dogs running around yesterday than all year

ICEMAN · « **Reply #25 on:** July 05, 2011, 05:52:51 PM »

Quote from: longashes on July 05, 2011, 07:54:32 AM

Mine does horrible ... learned years ago to get sedatives from the vet for the 4th and New Years.

Same here. Years ago I got prescription sedatives for my dog too.... The next year when I was getting a refill I told the vet; " Hey, those worked pretty good, but they leave a bitter aftertaste in your mouth..."

Guy didn't even crack a smile.

marty · « **Reply #26 on:** July 05, 2011, 06:03:41 PM »

My lab loves it sits and beggs me to send her on a retrieve! Shot guns and fireworks her favorite things.

SpringerFan · « **Reply #27 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:01:54 PM »

My Springer would stop and look for the bird every time there was a bang. Not a whole lot of them in Redmond proper but there were some "strays" that must have got away.

Other than that, he slept just fine.

CastleRocker · « **Reply #28 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:43:12 PM »

Quote from: 10Key on July 05, 2011, 05:40:15 PM

Our Brit did well. We were over in Wapato on the Rez and put on a hell of a show. He sat in my wife's lap for the entire thing and watched each mortar launch and explode. This is his second 4th experience and he "reacted" the same each time...We are lucky.

We were closer to Toppenish. First time over there for us, and it was amazing there weren't more fires with all the stuff that was flying around. One out of three dogs we had around us didn't do very well. The other two did great.

tbotts · « **Reply #29 on:** July 05, 2011, 07:52:54 PM »

my dog is not bothered by fireworks. Like others, he thinks there should be something to retrieve when he hears the bang.

AWS: My friend had a german shepherd that would sit over a ground nest of wasps/bees and eat them.

WA hunter14 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 05, 2011, 08:02:23 PM »

gaddy · « **Reply #31 on:** July 05, 2011, 08:04:57 PM »

bolth our labs did great, didnt bother them a bit. on the other hand our neighbors shepard & rat freeked. we came home to find them in the street in a panic. they had gone out for the evening & left the dogs in the back yard. we managed to get the shepard into our yard & gave him a bone & he mellowed right out being around people & our dogs. owners were very greatfull when they got home & my wife has a new puppy friend. he would'nt get 10 ft from her untill he went home.

jeepster · « **Reply #32 on:** July 05, 2011, 08:08:23 PM »

my vizsla did supprisingly well. he is still gun-shy around guns that arent shotguns, and i was expecting him to be hiding in his crate all night, but when the first round of rockets went off (single pop) he just ran around the house with his eyes glued to the ceiling/sky looking up waiting for something to fall... after he got bored with that and fell asleep and didnt move until he wanted breakfast. im just glad he finally is associating a loud pop with something falling out of the sky

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