I could relate to your dog. Last night's fireworks (it's already NY here) was just horrible. It was a 11pm to 1am nonstop blitzkrieg. NYE is probably the stupidest celebration out of the year.
anyhow....a night in the office in not too bad...Rockets won and the train is back on line now that it is 5:30am. No more bombing Beirut today!!! Time to go home.
We just like to bomb stuff. Like Pearl Harbor. You should go to Malta. THAT's where people are seriously crazy about fireworks. And they don't just do it on new year's eve. It's like they invent a new holiday for every weekend just so that they can pop off crackers and fireworks...really loud ones. All day and night.
Really? I'd love to go to Malta someday. It's on my list of spots I have yet to visit, and we wouldn't have the dog with us. I love fireworks and had never heard that about the island. Trippy! We wouldn't have the dog with us, regardless, because he is 15 and on his last legs, which a bummer for him, and a bummer for us. :-(-
Nice! I'm going to try this. One of my dogs is a freak when there's thunder or even a little rain. Thanks for this. Repped.
When I was six, our dog got spooked by fireworks, jumped the fence and took off; we never got her back.
Speak of the devil- some kids are shooting off fireworks right now and my spaz dog is standing next to me, panting.
They use a similar strategy with autistic kids; they call them compression vests. I've even seen teachers put direct pressure on the skulls of these kids when they start to act up. It has a calming effect. They even have super-heavy blankets which they can swaddle them with at a rest time.
It started out that way based on the Dreamcatcher movie. But in Googling 'dudders' I discovered that 1. It was 'Duddits' in the book Dreamcatcher, and 2. dudder actually means to shiver/shake. So it worked out better than I envisioned.
