how did your dogs react to fireworks?

[BIGINNER]

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]

Both of mine slept right through them.   

[longashes]

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

[GoldTip]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[huntnfmly]

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

[Michelle_Nelson]

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]

Not a single problem out of either of them

[MP123]

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]

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]

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.