hi & welcome to YT..i havent expierenced anything like that...martini doesnt mind thunder storms thank god cause i wouldnt know what to do either...hope u get good answers

glad you mention this...I am in Indiana too, and the storms the past 2 days have been bad. Gino had his first experience Monday night at about 4 am. He and I were up for hours because everytime it would thunder he would run around like crazy, and bark sometimes. He didnt like it one bit. I felt really bad, and I got no sleep. I was wondering what to do about it as well.

As for Bianca, she slept thru the whole thing. Fireworks dont even bother her.


ForMyCoby---my Mom's shih tzu's name isa Reggie too! :)

wow very informative thread I have not gone through any of this yet but if I do i have some helpful advice to get us through

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This place is so helpful. My Yorkie hides under the bed and it breaks my heart. Now at least I know it's not unusual behavior. I want to comfort her in my arms and couldn't understand why she didn't want me. I think that we are so tuned in to our little dogs' feelings that when they are the least bit uncomfortable it's a major thing. I've noticed that my family and friends who have larger dogs aren't as intimately involved with their feelings and such. These girls are my babies now. My kids are in their late teens and my dogs fill the void.

For My Coby, thank you so much for the idea. I have a 10 yr. old puppy mill rescue who panics even when it just mists. She started this about 3 yrs. ago and I've tried meds which do not work, holding her, which does not work. Actually, she was in a total panic last night and it was only snowing. (not school today:) ) Much of the night she had all three dogs annoyed at her and us awake because she was trampling all over the bed. If you put her on the floor she goes in never-ending circles. Thank you for the wonerful idea! Joanne :aimeeyork :aimeeyork :aimeeyork :dog:

:) Thanks for the insight and tips!

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.

10 days later and 1:00 am in the morning and Bleu is completely upset trembling panting whining and scared to death.... I took him outside to potty and it thundered so loud it even scared me followed by lightning that lit up the whole yard and it was MIDNIGHT! I hope I am not in for a long night but I do know we are in for storms and possible tornadic activity...

Think Of Us!

Im holding Bleu but it breaks my heart to not see him settle out!

Perhaps , I am very lucky because my Yorkies don't even react to thunderstorm or anything else .

Hun ask your vet about the meds, he doesn't have to go thru this. Good luck. We're in for some pretty bad stuff here on the coast until midnight tonight.

yep. or put under a heavy blanket for comfort.

I'm just curious how those of you who have pups terrified of storms, react to the storm yourself? My sister had a golden retreiver who went ballistic when a storm was coming too. I always thought maybe it had something to do with my sister reactions. A storm touched down in my sisters yard several years ago and trees fell everywhere and damaged part of her house and yard. It was scary for her and then shortly after that, they vacationed in Myrtle Beach and got "chased" by a tornado and their vehicle was damaged with broken glass everywhere and after that she was always anxious about storms and I've always wondered if the retriever was so in tune to her, that she picked up on the anxiety and it in turn made her anxious as well....

The first Storm Mi heard was a cpl weeks ago.. I of course any time it starts rainging or thundering i wake up cuz i hate bad weather.. But I was layin in bed watchin TV it was rainin Mi was sleepin next to me .. When that thunder hit she must have hit my roof and went nuts tring to get as close to me as poss.. I just layed her close to me and pet her an she went back to sleep... Well last night it rained and thundered like crazy i jumped of course cuz i was sleepin.. All she did was lift her head and came lay next me... I wonder if she was tring to make me feel better:rolleyes:

Living in Florida, I knew thunderstorms would be a problem. I had a friend that had a Yorkie that was so scared of TS. They came home and found their pup dead in the closet from a heart attack.
So when Bella was a puppy, I would take her out on the Lanai durning the storm. I sang to her or we played ball. Now she doesnt even think anything of that noise

Mine was not as bad as that.. But sorta the reason im so scared.. I am from Louisiana i have NEVER seen or heard a Tornado before.. A cpl months ago we had some bad weather roll in in the early am of course when we were sleepin and i heard smething that sound like an Airplane .. it was so loud it sound like it going through my house it was shaking an everything:rolleyes: .. I woke Laura up and asked her what it was she told me it was a plane it had to fly low do to the weather.. I was fine with that.. I went back to sleep.. The next day when i got to work a friend of ours talked to Laura all worried askin us if we got to see IT? She asked what.. The Tornado went over our house and touched down 3min away from out house at the high school:eek: ....