Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

hi sue, I have poodles too, and what used to scared the beegees out of my
oldest girl was thunder. I moved to Oklahoma a couple years back, and we had
never heard anything as loud as the thunder here. so, when I started to
notice how Chloe was starting to freak out I did with her what seemed most
natural. (please note, my dogs are not coddled or allowed to be prissy)I got
al excited and started to say" wow, isn't that loud?it's so neat! and we all
went out and watched the storm roll through *from the safety of the indoor
porch, I ewwwed and ah'ed generally made the dogs think I'd gone over the
edge.I acted happy and excited. after several episodes of this my dogs all
now think the big sky noises are just so cool. I would like to think that it
could be the same way with firecrackers. Any chance you don't like the noise
either? try learning to love it. good luck!!
"Sue" wrote in message
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Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

hi sue, I have poodles too, and what used to scared the beegees out of my
oldest girl was thunder. I moved to Oklahoma a couple years back, and we had
never heard anything as loud as the thunder here. so, when I started to
notice how Chloe was starting to freak out I did with her what seemed most
natural. (please note, my dogs are not coddled or allowed to be prissy)I got
al excited and started to say" wow, isn't that loud?it's so neat! and we all
went out and watched the storm roll through *from the safety of the indoor
porch, I ewwwed and ah'ed generally made the dogs think I'd gone over the
edge.I acted happy and excited. after several episodes of this my dogs all
now think the big sky noises are just so cool. I would like to think that it
could be the same way with firecrackers. Any chance you don't like the noise
either? try learning to love it. good luck!!
"Sue" wrote in message
...
Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

hi sue, I have poodles too, and what used to scared the beegees out of my
oldest girl was thunder. I moved to Oklahoma a couple years back, and we had
never heard anything as loud as the thunder here. so, when I started to
notice how Chloe was starting to freak out I did with her what seemed most
natural. (please note, my dogs are not coddled or allowed to be prissy)I got
al excited and started to say" wow, isn't that loud?it's so neat! and we all
went out and watched the storm roll through *from the safety of the indoor
porch, I ewwwed and ah'ed generally made the dogs think I'd gone over the
edge.I acted happy and excited. after several episodes of this my dogs all
now think the big sky noises are just so cool. I would like to think that it
could be the same way with firecrackers. Any chance you don't like the noise
either? try learning to love it. good luck!!
"Sue" wrote in message
...
Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

hi sue, I have poodles too, and what used to scared the beegees out of my
oldest girl was thunder. I moved to Oklahoma a couple years back, and we had
never heard anything as loud as the thunder here. so, when I started to
notice how Chloe was starting to freak out I did with her what seemed most
natural. (please note, my dogs are not coddled or allowed to be prissy)I got
al excited and started to say" wow, isn't that loud?it's so neat! and we all
went out and watched the storm roll through *from the safety of the indoor
porch, I ewwwed and ah'ed generally made the dogs think I'd gone over the
edge.I acted happy and excited. after several episodes of this my dogs all
now think the big sky noises are just so cool. I would like to think that it
could be the same way with firecrackers. Any chance you don't like the noise
either? try learning to love it. good luck!!
"Sue" wrote in message
...
Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

hi sue, I have poodles too, and what used to scared the beegees out of my
oldest girl was thunder. I moved to Oklahoma a couple years back, and we had
never heard anything as loud as the thunder here. so, when I started to
notice how Chloe was starting to freak out I did with her what seemed most
natural. (please note, my dogs are not coddled or allowed to be prissy)I got
al excited and started to say" wow, isn't that loud?it's so neat! and we all
went out and watched the storm roll through *from the safety of the indoor
porch, I ewwwed and ah'ed generally made the dogs think I'd gone over the
edge.I acted happy and excited. after several episodes of this my dogs all
now think the big sky noises are just so cool. I would like to think that it
could be the same way with firecrackers. Any chance you don't like the noise
either? try learning to love it. good luck!!
"Sue" wrote in message
...
Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

weird - we have a 10 month old Yellow Lab who loves fireworks. He
positions himself where he can watch it better and wags his tail.
He does notseem to like firecrackers too much but loves rockets,
sparklers, shooting stars, roman candles etc.

Hard to believe but true!

Joe
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:47:08 GMT, "Sue" wrote:

Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

weird - we have a 10 month old Yellow Lab who loves fireworks. He
positions himself where he can watch it better and wags his tail.
He does notseem to like firecrackers too much but loves rockets,
sparklers, shooting stars, roman candles etc.

Hard to believe but true!

Joe
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:47:08 GMT, "Sue" wrote:

Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

weird - we have a 10 month old Yellow Lab who loves fireworks. He
positions himself where he can watch it better and wags his tail.
He does notseem to like firecrackers too much but loves rockets,
sparklers, shooting stars, roman candles etc.

Hard to believe but true!

Joe
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:47:08 GMT, "Sue" wrote:

Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.

weird - we have a 10 month old Yellow Lab who loves fireworks. He
positions himself where he can watch it better and wags his tail.
He does notseem to like firecrackers too much but loves rockets,
sparklers, shooting stars, roman candles etc.

Hard to believe but true!

Joe
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:47:08 GMT, "Sue" wrote:

Is there any way to help my 3 year old, female, miniature poodle get over
her fear of firecrackers? No matter how far away and faint the noise, she
still tucks her tail and trembles, hiding under a chair. This seems to be
getting worse instead of better.