My area has crazy illegal fireworks all night long on New Years and also 4th of July. For the first couple of years on each holiday I gave my pup (now 3) a dose of vet prescribed trazodone on each holiday to chill her out so that she wouldn’t freak out.
In the time outside of the holiday fireworks I have been playing the firework desensitization dog training videos on YouTube and slowly increasing the volume over time. We just brought home a new pup 5 days ago and I’m starting this with him too.
Well a last night some of my neighbors started preemptively lighting off a few fireworks. I’m so pleased to say that although she noticed the fireworks, my older dog remained calm and just chilled on the couch! I will probably still give her and our new pup trazadone this year, since he is still so brand new to us and stressed. I’m not a crazy good dog trainer or anything, this is only my second dog. I would say that confidence and being low stress is what we primarily focus on. I just thought that was a really good training win!
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