00:00So in anticipation of Firework Night, what is the best way to prepare your pets for the day?
00:06I would suggest to a couple months in advance maybe, or a couple weeks if you haven't thought
00:11of it that far, definitely start playing quiet noises of fireworks and storms and maybe every
00:17day or every few days turn the volume up just a tiny bit to try to get them used to
00:22all of the
00:23really loud noises and the type of noise that it is essentially, as well as to take them out on
00:30a
00:30walk before that it gets to dark so they don't associate the walk with the loud noises and get
00:35quite frightened about it all. And during the fireworks how do we know they're uncomfortable
00:41because I mean Luna's making it very well known that she's uncomfortable in the studio now but
00:46yeah on the night of Fireworks Night what is the best way to know? Well in my personal experience
00:51with my dogs she normally lays her belly down on the on the tile which to cool herself down
00:58because she pants quite a lot and she shakes a bit and her back legs wobble quite a lot which
01:04is how we
01:04know that she's quite uncomfortable but obviously it does really depend on the dog it depends on their
01:10personality and their home life I suppose but yeah and also if with with the dogs they set very clear
01:19boundaries so make sure that you don't cross those boundaries yes okay and why is it that
01:27dogs hate fireworks so much really some dogs seem to well essentially it's because of all of their
01:32heightened senses because as we know dogs have an incredible sense of smell which is why they're
01:37always sniffing things when they go on walks and sniffing everyone when they come in and they're
01:42always trying to put their senses their sense on other people but as as well as having a heightened
01:48sense of smell they also have a major heightened sense of hearing so compared to us humans they can
01:54they can hear things about four times more than we can or four times further away than we can and
02:01they
02:01can also hear much higher frequencies which is why with dog whistles they can hear it and we can't
02:08the smell and the sounds of fireworks and thunderstorms and such really stress them out because it's all
02:16very it just it happens unpredictably and dogs they like to have a set routine essentially so when they
02:25hear a loud bang or an unfamiliar smell of gunpowder it puts them on edge quite a bit
