Fireworks and dogs don't mix!

Yep barley is one of those dog who does not like fireworks, but he prefers to wine and bark at them and will do anything to get outside and bark at them so he does turn the house upside.

Puzzle is unfazed and will often sleep through firework displays so we have opposite ends of the scale.

Just going to check the fence to make sure it is still standing after todays high winds, quite a few tree's down near us, we do have a sturdy fence but not if a tree was to fall on it

Ruby hates fireworks -- she barks and runs from one door and window to another when they go off.  And our neighborhood seems to have several people who insist on blowing them off on occasions other than July 4th.  So, even though we will go to bed before midnight, we will be awake anyway when the fireworks start and Ruby begins her response.  Yay!  Not.  

Rex barks at them. He doesn't appear to be afraid but he's obviously very agitated. Belle is indifferent. Gabby is afraid. :(

You got the whole lot there Jackie :)

Yep, it can be quite a rodeo around here when the fireworks are going off.  Gabby and I usually hang out in the bedroom with the TV on really loud.  Rex hangs out with my husband.  Belle naps on all the furniture, in turn.  Her idea of the perfect evening.  

Tonight I'm going to try and get Gabby to play some games that she loves.  I'm hoping I can change her fearful reaction with a combination of clicker games and yummy treats.  Wish me luck. :) My JRT who died last December was very storm phobic.  I think she picked up on his fear as she was raised with him. My mistake, as I should have kept them separated .  It might not have made a difference as she's quite a fearful shy dog in temperament but still I wish I'd not let her experience his fearful behavior.    

Good luck to you, and i hope you have a good night with dogs not too upset by the big bangs

Luna gets totally ticked off -- I mean HOW DARE they!!!   Charlie gets scared (but he's the one fearful of rain -- because he was abandoned in a hugely flooded house) & generally there are issues from his former home because of loud noises).  Tink?  She'll jump on the bandwagon with Luna and be "ticked off" by neighbors stupid enough to set off firecrackers.  

Charlie is far better than he used to be.  It takes constant training to desensitize these things - but at this point I just look at such holidays as an "opportunity" to do training.  Educating stupid neighbors & their kids probably isn't going to happen.

Interesting note -- Charlie (spaniel)  tends to be really fearful when someone sneezes.  I suspect in the prior home someone would go on a rant directed at Charlie every time they sneezed.   If Charlie is sitting - or even in the same room -- with one of us and we sneeze, he will literally jump up and race to the other human, or at least go to the room furthest from the one who sneezed.  

My husband has the most explosive sneeze I've ever heard.  I tend to be a bit quicker to try to desensitize so a few times when he HAS been with me & I sneeze I've told him how great he is to "help" me sneeze (*smile*) -- and now he's coming TO me when I sneeze, but Dad's explosive sneezes still chase him from the room..  David's working on it  =-)  but that kind of stuff does take time.   But Charlie generalizes to most any sudden big nose.

I'm very fortunate that neither my dog, nor my horse are bothered by fireworks, gunfire, explosions. I know lots of dogs *get lost* during those times when people are celebrating with fireworks. 

@Angel-baby

I know lots of dogs *get lost* during those times when people are celebrating with fireworks. 

So true and so sad.  ^  The last few days there have been so many ads placed for lost dogs that ran off New Years Eve and haven't been found.