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 Roan On The Range
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Location: Stephenville, TX | Looking for opinions from anyone that has tried a ThunderShirt for their anxious dog. Did it work?
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | My dad has one for a lab that has seperation anxiety. Really helps her. |
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | I just saw a commercial for that a couple of days ago and wondered if it would help my mother's little dog. How expensive? |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | You can get these shirts at Pet Smart for 39.99  |
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 Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | A guy at wotk has one for his dobie, he says it calms the dog right down.  |
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 Perky Gal
Location: On a paint horse... | Worked for my aussie. I just saw on facebook a way to wrap the dog with an ace bandage, using the same concept as the thundershirt. May be worth a google |
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 Take a Picture
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| I have one for my Aussie and I use it when iit thunders. It does help somewhat. As for using it now for fireworks etc, TX heat prohibits using it right now. |
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Roan On The Range
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Location: Stephenville, TX | Thanks guys! So it must be the tightness of the shirt that calms them down? My dog likes cuddling, so she might respond to the this. She gets anxious about things here and there, but I'd rather not drug her.
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Roan On The Range
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Location: Stephenville, TX | streakysox - 2015-07-05 1:26 PM I have one for my Aussie and I use it when iit thunders. It does help somewhat. As for using it now for fireworks etc, TX heat prohibits using it right now.
I was wondering how hot it was. My dog is mostly an indoor dog but I swear she has sonic ears...she can hear everything outside. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | We have an Am Staff that is sound sensitive and the Thundershirt works on her during thunderstorms and fireworks.
Our Boston hates storms and the Thundershirt helps some but she does need added help. She had some pieces of a THE Calming Cookie last night. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | We tried one last night. It worked but he's an Aussie and he got so hot so fast I felt awful for him laying on the floor with his face pressed onto the floor vents for the AC...I ended up giving him a 3mg dissolving melatonin and took the shirt off to keep him from getting too hot. Passed out belly up on the bed... It was really endearing haha. I think it just gave him enough to help him relax.
I felt like the poor guy needed a glass of wine he got himself so worked up over the fireworks!!
Edited by Crowned Image 2015-07-05 7:54 PM
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Location: Wherever They Send Me | I have used essential oils to calm my dogs down...lavender or Serenity (Doterra calming blend)...I either put it on their pads of their paws or rub it on them. |
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Porta Potty Pants
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| Didn't work for our aussie … *Sigh* … it's monsoon season and fireworks season .. she's so unhappy. Thankfully the last day fireworks are legally allowed is tomorrow. I'm going to have to get some melatonin and try that. We've tried benadryl … per our vet … didn't work either. She doesn't like to be held or anything … she pants and drools … it's heartbreaking. |
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Take a Picture
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| Someone posted on Facebook that they had found a dog in their yard that had apparently run off because of fireworks. They were posting to locate the owner. The dog was wearing a Thunder shirt. I would say that it would completely depend on the dog.
Edited by streakysox 2015-07-06 1:37 AM
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I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | azsun - 2015-07-05 11:22 PM
Didn't work for our aussie … *Sigh* … it's monsoon season and fireworks season .. she's so unhappy. Thankfully the last day fireworks are legally allowed is tomorrow. I'm going to have to get some melatonin and try that. We've tried benadryl … per our vet … didn't work either. She doesn't like to be held or anything … she pants and drools … it's heartbreaking.
if you get melatonin, get the dissolving kind. it absorbs better into the body, the pill form wont break down fast enough in the stomach to actually get used! |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | amandacamarano - 2015-07-05 10:07 PM I have used essential oils to calm my dogs down...lavender or Serenity (Doterra calming blend)...I either put it on their pads of their paws or rub it on them.
I tried differenet Essential Oils without any luck. |
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 Dog Rescue Hero
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Location: Oklahoma City OK | I hate SO BAD the 4th of July and weeks surrounding it just because my poor 1/2 Lab 1/2 Black Mouth Cur goes 50 shades of crazy...so bad I think he's going to have a heart attack. I tried benadryl this last time, had very little effect. Cesar Milan says you're not supposed to do any behavior that would normally reward your dog, so petting and comforting would be counter-productive, but I am hoping to hear anything that works absolutely. How much melatonin can you give a dog? |
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 Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | It seemed to help mine a bit. I also got the calming spray that PetsMart sells with it and tried that as well. She HATES thunder. |
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