How do you make your dog stop barking when fireworks go off?

Question

Our dog will never shut up when fireworks go off and we can not afford to get a muzzel and besides,he is a fragile puppy!

Answer 1

sit with him and try comforting him to let him know it's okay, it might help to let him smell the fire works also before they are lit.

Also there's calming supplements and things like that in the pet stores that you could give him.

Answer 2

Hope you're not taking him *to* the fireworks. If they are going off around your home, your pup is (understandably) stressed about that. Most dogs cannot be calm around fireworks. The loud sounds damage their hearing, anomg other things. A muzzle will not stop a dog from barking, either. So instead of expecting him to "shut up", you could bring him somewhere else (that's fireworks-free) or give him 3 mg of Melatonin to try to ease the stress.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

A dog should be trained on how to eat, walk with you, not to bark, potty training and sleep on its place etc. You can teach anything to your puppy, dogs get trained easily with some good instructions. If you want some good training tips visit https://tr.im/onlinedogtraining

If properly trained, they should also understand whistle and gesture equivalents for all the relevant commands, e.g. short whistle or finger raised sit, long whistle or flat hand lay down, and so on.

It's important that they also get gestures and whistles as voice may not be sufficient over long distances and under certain circumstances.

Answer 5

Try to keep in a quiet place. Sirens, alarms, fireworks, and other loud noises HURT VERY MUCH. This can be a tough time and it may always bother your pet, our dog is very old and it crys at every thunder, gunshot and siren (yes car alarms too) good luck. Ask a vet for more help, muzzle is not the answer.

Answer 6

Soothing and comforting your dog is reinforcing the behavior. That is a bad idea.

When there are fireworks going off, distract your puppy. A good way to do this is to put him through the paces of his obedience training. Have him practicing sits and downs, stays and comes. Continually reward him with treats for the good behaviors.

This works during thunderstorms, too. This is how I work my dogs through fear and avoidance situations. When they are doing something that they feel comfortable with during a frightening time, it makes the situation far less frightening.

Remember, lots of praise for his obedience work, and totally and completely ignore the fear behavior. Soothing him reinforces it.

They don't understand "it's just fireworks, sweetie, its okay, there's no need to be scared". They hear (as you are petting), "blah blah blah ginger", but you are petting them, so they must be doing something right, which is the behavior at the time they are getting the attention.

Answer 7

A dog should be trained on how to eat, walk with you, not to bark, potty training and sleep on its place etc. You can teach anything to your puppy, dogs get trained easily with some good instructions. If you want some good training tips visit https://tr.im/ZdQ1J

If properly trained, they should also understand whistle and gesture equivalents for all the relevant commands, e.g. short whistle or finger raised sit, long whistle or flat hand lay down, and so on.

It's important that they also get gestures and whistles as voice may not be sufficient over long distances and under certain circumstances.

Answer 8

Either you do not bring your dog when there is a firework.
It is already stressful for many humans so imagine for an animal...

The other option is to train your dog in advance with small fireworks or detonators. It might never work for some dogs.

Good luck

Answer 9

My dogs just now are in my bed.The A.C.is on as loud as it can go(I'm Freezing) But it is dulling some of that awful noise, I live in Eastern Massachusetts, so the faithful will be patriotic all stinking week. All I can do is use white noise, like an A.C.or a Fan to dull the noise and share my bed!

Answer 10

I give my dog tranquilizers and sit with him, but this year I found that if I turned on the ceiling fan its like white noise and the dogs can't hear the fireworks noise so much.

Answer 11

If you know ahead of time that there will be fireworks set off, you could get your vet to prescribe a mild tranquilizer. That really helps. Or comforting as best you can.