My guidoune pants, shakes and paces but this is only because something has stressed her (she's terrified of thunder, fireworks and big bang noises), she knows when a storms coming before i do!
This summer we had alot of thunderstorms early in the summer every day, one time at night it was real terrible and she was so scared.
But her shaking/panting/pacing would only last normally 15-30 min (i call them little episodes) I too comforted her and held her, talked to her, but i then later read on the internet that i was making it worse by doing so!
I try not to do it so much but it's hard not to because she comes to me.
Just a little expierence, hopefully others will have some suggestions too!
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