Dog going nuts in the wind

[williaa68]

Our dog, a seven year old schnoodle, is going nuts in the wind. Granted we live in a fairly creaky old house but this is bad even by her standards. She won’t go in her crate and is sat on my lap panting heavily. Any suggestions as to what we can do to calm her down? We’ve tried thunder vests etc.

Thank you

[Doofus]

williaa68 said:

Our dog, a seven year old schnoodle, is going nuts in the wind. Granted we live in a fairly creaky old house but this is bad even by her standards. She won’t go in her crate and is sat on my lap panting heavily. Any suggestions as to what we can do to calm her down? We’ve tried thunder vests etc.

Thank you

The trouble is, they're much more susceptible to air pressure the we are, so it's not just the noise, it's the physical effect.

I don't have an answer, because our dog is fairly relaxed about it, but you have my sympathy, for what it's worth. My wife tried a thunder vest over firework season (about which he was frightened), and they didn't work. The only thing that worked then was loud, but calm, music or telly. When the air pressure is part of the problem, I'm not sure what to try.

[garythesign]

Rescue Remedy helped our collie

Good luck

[williaa68]

Thank you. It is going to be a long night!

[Turn7]

The only thing I can add, is to not try and make a fuss about things, just act normally.

Dogs pick up on your senses as well...

I know its ay easier said than done, plus the air pressure as said, but do what you can to distract the dog from the noise etc,

[garythesign]

How did you get on overnight?

I think we found Bach Agrimoney useful in the past.

Our collie was very sensitive and would just be in her own little world before and during storms.

She panted heavily and her eyes had a far away look.

There was little we could do and we felt so helpless.

I have no experience of plug in type stress relievers.

[williaa68]

Pretty bad! She was up all night. In the end she went to sleep in my arms as o was watching some YouTube video on a dog walk on formby beach with some soothing music. The wife took over at 6 so I got about three hours sleep. Poor little thing.

[HRL]

Both my cockers were sat in the garden with the gale force winds blowing their ears about last night.

They were incredibly restless all night though and I was up until 3am with them.

Seems to have died off a bit this morning thankfully.

[MOBB]

I was up at 4am this morning with one of ours, just wouldn’t settle and just kept staring at me

Had a sort of trancey look in his eyes too

Seems fine now

[SPR2]

HRL said:

Both my cockers were sat in the garden with the gale force winds blowing their ears about last night.

They were incredibly restless all night though and I was up until 3am with them.

Seems to have died off a bit this morning thankfully.

I was looking after a cocker spaniel for a few days and she like yours was very restless, kept wanting to go outside and sit there for a few minutes during the evening. Never known a dog react like that to wind before.

[Who me ?]

Could it be the frequency of the wind noise. Don't forget that what to us sounds like wind whistling may upset them, and their frequency range extends a lot above ours. Present little lass is not particularly bothered by fire works and sometimes bothered by wind noise, but hates the sound of water coming out of a hose. And it's not the water . She doesn't mind that ,it's the whistling noise from the hose . She's not bothered by the sound of the shower.

[rxe]

Bit off the wall, but do you know anyone who shoots?

Both of our GSDs come shooting with me - they're not gun dogs (at all) but they have been around guns since they were pups. Not close up (which would damage their ears) but nearby. They're utterly unfazed by noise, as they associate loud bangs with treats and (sometimes) interesting things falling to the ground. The older dog knows the sound of the semi-auto being loaded, and is waiting for me by the door when I go out.

Both of them slept like logs through the most recent storms, indeed the thing that woke me up was the old dog snoring. They aren't bothered in the slightest by thunder or fireworks.