Numpties with fireworks

[hodge911]

I'm  fuming to say the least !!

My little  15 month old cocker bitch was coming along nicely  (not as fast as some people bring them on but due to being carer for my wife I haven't got the spare time I used to have) had her up to the clay ground twice a week with her in cage in boot while I sit and talk to her for a while before putting her on lead and walking her around car park while guns going off in distance and week by week working a little closer  to the guns  . She was doing great even taking her into the woods that border the car park and letting her work the rough again coming along fine .

Until Sunday night gone , she wanted to go out for toilet  and just as she squatted the rectum at the top of my garden set off one the flipping loudest  rockets exploding above our house and scaring the little girl to death .

She ran indoors tail tucked VERY TIGHTLY and would not settle for rest of the night .

Panting like she'd just ran a marathon trying to get into any small space ect and shaking like rampant rabbit . 

I covered her cage over put a couple of extra blankets in and tried to  settle her in there but no avail.  

Has been the same ate every flipping  firework or bang noise since. 

Last night it took 15mg of diazapam  to calm her enough to stop pacing the floor. 

And the rectum has jus gone and set another 2 off .

Now I'm  a bit concerned  it may have spoiled her.

Any advice opinions moe than welcome 🙏 

 

 

[Stonepark]

Not the advice you are probably looking for but...

Fire works are louder and more 'noisey' than gunshots as they also give off shrieks and squeals that we cannot hear but dogs and cats can and why they find them so off putting.

Young dogs need to learn to ignore the increasing noise and bangs and best way, is to have them that interested in working/playing, so they think about nothing else.

Perhaps being of a sensitive disposition she should have been introduced to loud unexpected noises from 3 months and guns shots from 6 months, i fear your are 9 months too late into getting her accustomed to loud and unexpected bangs. She should have been comfortable  sitting directly behind clay stands at 9 months watching what was going on.

If she is having panic attacks and you are giving her diazapam (vet prescribed i presume?) you are already defeated for close range but she may still work as a beating dog or picker up where there is some distance to the guns.