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My experience is when a dog’s gotta go he/she goes. Ain’t no stopping it.
They are generally less interested and adherent to social proprieties than humans. Most humans.
My Carolina dog Miss Foxy has gotten fairly used to fireworks. I loved them as a kid, hate them as an adult except for large public displays. Omaha may be one of the larger cities to allow fireworks in the city. Some year when it is dry there will be a large outbreak of fires, and they’ll probably go back to not allowing them in the city limits.
My dog doesn’t like thunderstorms, mailpeople and certain dogs like my daughter’s little dachsund mix. Otherwise likes all people, kids and most dogs. And even tolerates the cats.
Oh another thing she doesn’t like—rumble strips on the road. Kind of like a thunderstorm inside the car.
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09-29-2024 11:12 AM
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I’ve owned 3 boxers. Each 4th of July or New Year’s I wrapped them in a Thundershirt. Most are made of a spandex or polyester material. Anxiety in dogs is completely normal. Heck, even I can’t stand the 4oJ! So I’d wrap them and turn the sound up on the tv. All is good.
As to a dog pooping in front of me, most animal owners understand when you have to go you gotta go. I don’t get anyone becoming incensed by poop. If a dog had access to a toilet perhaps they’d use it.
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
Depending on the size of the dog and how much/what it had to eat since its last dump, the resulting heap can represent a pretty sizeable fish to fry
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Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
When I was a kid we had dogs as well. My parents would have never allowed the dog to defecate in front of somebody eating in front of a restaurant. You can train a dog. Of course not totally against its instincts. That cafe is very small, the space is maybe 4 m wide. If you have the dog on a leash (what you will do in the city and that dog was on a leash) you could pull him/her e.g. to the neighboring entrance of the underground parking. That dog did not have the squirts but constipation. Which is probably a sign of not feeding it well enough anyway.
EDIT: One of the first basic principles of hygiene I was taught when I started working at the hospitals was that body expulsions and food have to remain separate.Last edited by Bop Head; 09-29-2024 at 12:06 PM.
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Originally Posted by RJVB
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I know for a fact that cats also hate fireworks. It undermines their notion that they control the world.
I also feel bad for all the birds who have to deal with human beings setting off high explosives at the same time every year. It must really mess with them. They're sensitive to air pressure and vibrations in ways we're not.
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Cats have even more sensitive hearing than dogs so yes, evidently they don't like the noise. Mine are hardly phased though during the yearly 14/7 fireworks that are shot at at most 500m from our house.
As to birds: there are a lot less of them flying at high altitudes at common fireworks times, and what species are active in the area will probably just move.
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Originally Posted by RJVB
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Originally Posted by supersoul
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I forgot about the pure noise versions...
Originally Posted by supersoul
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Originally Posted by RJVB
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I could try playing again although that hasn't worked too well until now, possibly because at 5 she has become a lot less interested in those absorbing wild plays. Plus, thunderstorms always seem to happen when I'd really like to continue doing other things rather than having to baby a dog in one way or another.
Thunderwraps. They look interesting but I can't shake the hunch that they're in fact a kind of passive form of babying. To those who use(d) them: do the symptoms not get worse if you get caught unprepared without the thing at hand?
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Do all dog breeds have the 'homing instinct'?
There seem to be a lot of lost dogs up here in the country.
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Originally Posted by RJVB
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
On a related note: did anyone see the news blurb of a cat who had gotten spooked while on holiday in I think Yellowstone, and who apparently travelled about 1400 of the 3300 miles to her home on her own in I think 6 weeks? That distance in itself is amazing (though in line with the distance adventurous roamers are known to cover during a nightly outing) but also that he managed to go in a consistant direction, that it was apparently the right one, and that he even bothered at all.
Originally Posted by Ukena
AFAIK it's common for dogs to seek the company (and protection) of their care-takers. It's cats that typically go hid because they're not pack animals; I'm sure there's a demonstration of that somewhere on YT. My 3 cats clearly do that whenever they hear the dog announcing the presence of someone outside, but curiously only 2 of them will go hide in their crate as soon as they get the chance during a vet visit. The other one will indeed seek protection in my arms (or used to at least); she's the one I hand-raised from when she was barely 1 month old and got separated from her (feral) mother.
PS: she looks like a frightened or fearful dog to me in that picture!
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Originally Posted by A. Kingstone
Just kidding of course.
I want the vibraphone
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