Well, I can't say they are great with them - I've not had Rosie through a November yet, but Brythen is not a fan of fireworks or thunder. He would definitely sympathise with poor Max!
But they don't shake and pant and cram themselves under furniture the way Az used to do when he was young(ish), so I am hopeful that regular not-too-intense exposure to things like walking past the quarry accompanied by lots of treats and positive experiences will desensitise them a bit.
I've been taking them into the local towns whenever I can get organised to do so, because they aren't very used to people and traffic and built-up areas either, and ideally I'd like to get both of them to the point where I was with Mollydog, of having at least one reliable, robust and confident dog before I foster again. It's much easier to work on one set of problems at a time!
Could you have a little pile of sausage or something, and make the 'crump' sound a predictor for amazing food falling from the sky?
Just thinking that Rosie was very alarmed by the 'pop' noise our gas fire makes when it turns on, and to begin with she would run away and hide when we did it, but she soon learned that the gas fire was delightful to bask by once the pop was over, and now she sits in front of it making TURN THE FIRE ON faces. :-D
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Date: 2014-02-26 01:57 pm (UTC)But they don't shake and pant and cram themselves under furniture the way Az used to do when he was young(ish), so I am hopeful that regular not-too-intense exposure to things like walking past the quarry accompanied by lots of treats and positive experiences will desensitise them a bit.
I've been taking them into the local towns whenever I can get organised to do so, because they aren't very used to people and traffic and built-up areas either, and ideally I'd like to get both of them to the point where I was with Mollydog, of having at least one reliable, robust and confident dog before I foster again. It's much easier to work on one set of problems at a time!
Could you have a little pile of sausage or something, and make the 'crump' sound a predictor for amazing food falling from the sky?
Just thinking that Rosie was very alarmed by the 'pop' noise our gas fire makes when it turns on, and to begin with she would run away and hide when we did it, but she soon learned that the gas fire was delightful to bask by once the pop was over, and now she sits in front of it making TURN THE FIRE ON faces. :-D