how did your dogs react to fireworks?

[vandeman17]

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]

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

[wsucowboy]

My black lab slept right through it.

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

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]

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

[OlympicElkJunkie]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[SpringerFan]

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]

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]

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.