Independence Day Pet Prep?

[Joe13]

From where our house sits we can see fireworks going off from Portland to Saint Helens { all along the columbia river } - seems no one is really paying attention to the restrictions.

Thankfully I am outside Vancouver city limits but when they banned them inside the city limits I heard they were paying overtime to catch people and give out those $500 tickets. I idea if they will keep that up or not but they have a 1 day allowance here for the day of the 4th and people are doing the once every couple hours thing - which doesn't really bother us any. But the ones like @Mikej mentioned after 10pm are super annoying.

 

[Mikej]

Thankfully I am outside Vancouver city limits but when they banned them inside the city limits I heard they were paying overtime to catch people and give out those $500 tickets. I idea if they will keep that up or not but they have a 1 day allowance here for the day of the 4th and people are doing the once every couple hours thing - which doesn't really bother us any. But the ones like @Mikej mentioned after 10pm are super annoying.

I give a lot of leeway on "The 4th of July". It has ALWAYS been the best holiday of the year. Even when I was a real kid. Some of the parties we've had/been to. WOOF! Up and down the street was pall of smoke, if it was a calm night. But come 11:00 pm, time to wind down. And done at midnight. Kind of a bummer actually. Seems all that's left is the guys with the HUGE boomers. And doing them here and there until 2:00 am. I miss seeing the faces of the young kids, huddled up under blankets watching the adults do the "adult" fireworks after they've done their smaller stuff earlier in the night.

 

[Kooljeep5]

I can't believe it but the thunder shirt worked.
Until it didn't. At first it really did help my dog but my dog associated it with stuff that made her afraid. It got to the point to when ever I put the shirt on her she associated the shirt with scary stuff. Now as soon as I put the shirt on her she shakes like a leaf Tall between her legs and she runs and hides. DARN YOU THUNDER SHIRT!

 

[Joe13]

I can't believe it but the thunder shirt worked.
Until it didn't. At first it really did help my dog but my dog associated it with stuff that made her afraid. It got to the point to when ever I put the shirt on her she associated the shirt with scary stuff. Now as soon as I put the shirt on her she shakes like a leaf Tall between her legs and she runs and hides. DARN YOU THUNDER SHIRT!

Did you get her use to it before the 4th?

I'm pretty sure the directions advise to gradually acclimate them to it before you use it for its intended purpose ?

Just curious as I was never able to get it to work with our small dogs years ago.

 

[Kooljeep5]

Oh yes I did gradually acclimate her to it and it worked for over a year for a lot of stuff. Fireworks. My air compressor scares her. Maybe what I did wrong was I started putting it on her before it got dark. Before fireworks started or before I turned on the air compressor. You know before the scary stuff
started. So I think she learned when the shirt goes on something frightening is coming. But it works. I was sceptical. I talked to my vet
About it and he said that it has something to do with pressure around the nerves on their body when they get dogs in the back and they are frightened the technicians will put their arms around the dog and kind of hug the dog and put pressure around them and it calms them. The shirt operates on the same principle.