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Originally Posted by GinosMommy  ....ForMyCoby---my Mom's shih tzu's name isa Reggie too!  |
I'll tell Reggie he has a kindred spirit out there!
More information I can share from all the reading that I've done on storm phobias/trauma. And this all fits Reggie to a T.
Reggie will often try to get in the bath tub (or get behind the toilet) during a storm. (One day, poor guy got in the bathtub while we were gone but knocked an open bottle of shampoo into the tub with him. He couldn't get out because he kept sliding on the shampoo. Poor guy was exhausted by the time we got home!) This is apparently because dogs sense that the pipes are grounded and they will not be shocked.
Also, Reggie will also desperately try to get out of the house into the storm. We never understood this. Would seem to make no sense, huh? A few times he squeezed out of the door, but he ran to the car and wanted in the car. I finally read that dogs will try to get into cars, again because they can apparently sense that the car is a safe grounded place. A couple of times when Reggie has been on the verge of a seizure from the trauma, we have taken him for a ride. He immediately calms down. One time it was storming too bad to just go for a ride, so we sat in the car. Still helped.
I've read a lot of stories where big dogs will break out of a house only to break into a car (like the sliding window of a pick up truck) and lay peacefully until the storm passes..... usually with the family frantically looking everywhere ELSE for the poor dog.
Hope some of this is helpful. I just hate having to medicate Reggie all the time (July 4th - exception). And these are things that have helped us live with this for about the last 7 or 8 years.