Re: [PyrNet-L] PLEASE Help! Barking problem/thunderstorms

[lugano@internex.net.au]

Hello we too have a female PYR that literaly will bite her way out of a
fence to get away from a storm. Unfortunatly our storms are not very
predictable so she has gone awol several times in recent years. This in its
self is not a problem as when she normaly gets out she always hangs around
guarding the area but a thunder storm and she seems to loose it and try to
run away from it. 

The best way we have coped in 6 yrs of this with out using drugs is to let
her come in, put her on a lead so she can not wander around too much in case
she tries to get out through a window. We then put on relaxing music such as
classical turn on lights and shut curtains and act normaly. As you say not
too much petting but a word here and there and she copes. But of course
there is always the time we may not get home in time. Most of our storms
seem to be late evening to night.

I did ring a radio vet oneday and he suggested a de sensitizing thunder
storm tape that is available here in Aust. I never got around to buying it.
I still think it is not so much the thunder noise but the lighting that
causes the problem. The reason why I say this is that we went to a re
enactment of bush rangers holding up our local tourist steam train. I did
not realise they were going to fire shots (blanks). I nearly went up the
nearest tree in fright but Mym and the fellows just watched with interest
and did not even react. These bangs were very loud and close. 


Liz (Mym the thunder storm shreck and Benson and Falcor who never react)  . 
At 11:04 PM 6/3/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On 3 Jun 98, at 10:47, Ann Wetherilt wrote:
>> BUT: She is terrified of thunderstorms. During two pretty severe ones
>> we've had this week, she climbed the steepish stairs to our 2nd floor for
>> the first time and scratched on a bedroom door to get in