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Keep Your Dog from Freaking Out on Fourth of July

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Many dogs totally freak when they hear fireworks. (My golden Molly is mostly deaf now, and we live in a rural area with little of the explosiveness of most locations in America today, so it’s not a major concern for me now, but it has been in the past when she was younger and we lived in more civilized spots.)

Here’s a suggestion: Keep your dog in the house or garage and play loud music on the stereo, louder than most of the fireworks your pooch will hear. Most CD players have a function that will let you “loop” a CD so it plays over and over.

And pick some music your dog likes.

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  1. Ronald Thompson says

    Hi John, Thanks for the advice re dogs going bonkers from firework noise. Mine (Tomodachi) is staying at a home where a movie on the TV is played loud to keep her pooches and the one’s she is taking care of distracted. The reason Tomodachi is being boarded is that we both had to go to Eureka Friday than Donna went on to Auburn for the 100th birthday party of her last surviving aunt. I decided to leave Tomo with our dog sitter so he would not suffer as much trauma from bang bang bang noises then if he stayed here. Another trick to avoid noise is to take him to the airport parking lot during fireworks time. It works here in Crescent City, but maybe not everywhere. New Paragraph. Hope all three of you are doing fine. We are all doing so. Except my knees. Odd, but the bad knee is now better then my ‘good’ knee. Still, both of them are good enough for ‘normal’ hiking. Bye, Ronald PS one small patch of snow on N. face of Youngs Peak. The last snow in Del Norte County. My annual 4th of July snow check.

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  2. John Soares says

    Ron, I like the movie idea, especially if its one dogs like.

    I’m glad your still hiking, bad knees and all. You’re the main resource for hiking in Del Norte County. I do miss that area.

    I just hiked the Seven Lakes basin west of Mount Shasta and didn’t see a lick of snow anywhere.

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