You are absolutely correct. In the wild or with those that live outside, dogs are not uncommonly fearful of thunderstorms but in the home, they sense their human's apprehension during the approach of and during the storm. And then a nervous dog might have a nervous spell during one and it might scare or worry us, so we get tenser than ever and the dog gets that, too. Next time they might really panic and then we really fear that next storm. Our fears feed their fears which feed our fears which feed their fears which......
Have you noticed how much more anxious people are these days with all of the video and alarming live coverage of bad weather blaring on TV's and radio and on the internet? And our dogs pick up on every bit of that from us. Now that you have found some help for them, no doubt that extra tension you used to have when a storm moved in is mostly lacking and yours babies see you are calmer and they have faced-down thunderstorms calm in the past and not freaked out thanks to their Thundershirt, they don't fear them as much either. I think they have learned how to deal with the storm thanks to that tool and will likely stay that way.
It's good to hear a good news story.
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