Taking dogs to the fireworks?

• Taking dogs to the fireworks? sooner Posted : 7/4/2006 1:04:48 AM There have been a few dogs and fireworks threads lately - so sorry if this has already been asked. Does anyone here take their dogs to the fireworks? I've never really considered it, but tonight at the show I saw several families with dogs. Would it damage their hearing or anything? LIKE 18 REPLIES 1261 VIEWS LAST POST CYCLEFIEND2000 Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jensw Posted : 7/4/2006 2:05:35 AM The fireworks shows I've been to have been so far away from the actual fireworks that the sound level wasn't any big deal. No different than a lawnmower or something, if even that loud.    I'd take Roscoe with no problem; nothing fazes him. Bella was freaking out this afternoon, so I wouldn't take her.[&:] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• griffinej5 Posted : 7/4/2006 10:40:01 AM I won't be taking Max with tonight, but I probably will take him on Saturday night. The ones tonight are at a fair. It'll be really crowded, and there's gonna be lots of food, so it's not a good place for him to come. The ones on Saturday we can watch from the car, or we can get out where it's not crowded and watch. Those are the ones he went with to last year, and they have a display there for New Years that he came with for.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Lauri S. Posted : 7/4/2006 10:48:34 AM We take Riggs.  He could care less about the noise and likes to meet and great the people. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• karin Posted : 7/4/2006 11:10:30 AM Shaq = NO   Marley =YES    I think it all depends on how your dogs react to loud noises, crowds of people, and maybe some strange dogs. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• astaracheetah Posted : 7/4/2006 11:30:00 AM Eevee could hear the pop of a forework 10 miles away and be scared... so that would be a no... >X.x;< 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• tiffy Posted : 7/4/2006 1:13:54 PM Imagine a 60 lb. blue heeler x, trying to climb in your lap after every sound. No. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• hlb118 Posted : 7/4/2006 3:16:16 PM Both Beau and Sasha do wonderful around loud noises. We went to a mini firework show here in Shasta Lake, and they weren't surprised at all.   Can't wait for this evening. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jeano Posted : 7/4/2006 3:40:43 PM What fireworks? Signed, Jean In the Land of the Midnight Sun[] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• astaracheetah Posted : 7/4/2006 3:46:56 PM ORIGINAL: tiffy Imagine a 60 lb. blue heeler x, trying to climb in your lap after every sound. No. Eevee climbed a chain link fence once lmfao... and it was the day AFTER the fireworks, but she was still scared to go outside. That was back when she was like a year old. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jones Posted : 7/4/2006 4:32:28 PM I've been debating this all day! We've had some fireworks in the neighborhood this summer and Russell barely batted an eye. Last night there was a bigger show nearby and I kind of think maybe he was worried about it - he seemed to be hiding under a chair for a little while - but I'm not sure if I was imagining that. My BF wants to take him to the fireworks tonight and I'm not sure what to do. He loves people and crowds so much he might love it - but I don't know. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• spiritdogs Posted : 7/4/2006 5:32:08 PM If you do, be sure to add a harness, and an extra leash.  Even dogs that are not freaked by loud noises sometimes get rattled by the big booms so close.  Dogs have been lost at these events, so I would want the additional security of something that he can't get out of if he panics, at least the first time you take him.   0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Paula Diffenbaugh Posted : 7/4/2006 5:52:44 PM People accross the creek from me were shooting off some on sunday night so I decided to walk Jake down with me to sit on the pier.  He seemed more interested in the ducks swimming than the fireworks.[] Occasionally he would turn around for a big boom but it seemed like just to see what was going on not like a fear of the noise or anything.  I tried not to make a big deal about the noise or whatever because I didn't want to create a scaredy dog.  He did great I would take him with us to fireworks tonight if it makes it without the thunderstorms they were calling for. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Kara Posted : 7/5/2006 9:52:32 AM I would like to take Gracie to the fireworks on the beach next year, she slept through it all this year. I think she might have barked once or twice at the really loud ones. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jones Posted : 7/5/2006 10:03:02 AM We ended up taking R to the fireworks last night... turns out we were so far away we couldn't hear any booms over the sound of traffic (ah, city life). He had his back turned to the display and was just happily checking out the people. So all's well that ends well! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login