We have fireworks most winter weekends - although last year was very quiet so I`m hoping for the same this year.
So I close the curtains and turn the TV up.

Has anyone tried Zylkene for fear of fireworks? I am dreading this year as last 5th Nov was horrendous -there was no respite from the moment it got dark until about midnight. Gelert was barking at every bang and his heart was racing.
I was wondering about Skullcap and Valerian too but I'm a bit sceptical about its effectiveness.

I'm not sure what to do this year... I find it is easier when we are home, Jake just hides under my bed and I put the tv up loud or play music for him if I am out. It is out on walks that are the problem because they go off at all times of the day... I had a hairy moment last year when a whole load of them suddenly went off about 5pm and Jake was scrabbling up at me. I managed to get him on lead, on run home with him... where he promptly hid under the bed. Once he is under there, he is relatively ok.

Lavender all over the place including on the dog. Cotton wool in dogs ears. Heavy metal music loud in every room. Get in a hot bath and shreik my head off to the music.

I've today ordered some Zylkene for both dogs, I'm hoping it'll help.

Someone on this site suggested 'Homeo Pet' Anxiety TFLN. If you search on-line you'll find it. It has excellent reviews! And is designed to stop anxiety for dogs.

Kyiro and Lily will be going back to the rescue kennels for 10 days next Friday so as hopefully to miss the worst of the fireworks as Kyiro is absolutly petrified. One bang will render him a drooling hyperventilating mess and it takes him 2 hrs to get over one little bang.
I have had him on Zylkene and it done nothing for him at all and I now have him on these drops reccommended by someone on here, but last night there were a few bangs in the distance and he was immeadietly in a terrible state, so they don't work for him either.
We have tried so many things the past few years from Dap diffuser, skullcap and valerian etc etc and nothing has helped him at all which is why we book him in for boarding at the kennels.

Have you tried the firework display CD at a very low volume to start with? It was recommended to me by a lady who breeds Flatcoats, who plays it loudly to all her pups before they leave her.

Yes my vet gave me one free 3 years ago but even on low it gets him in a state on the firework bit. Its some tone he seems to pick up in the whistles and crackles and bangs.
It also had thunder on the cd which he is fine with but real thunder has him in a right state, yet gun fire when we have been out doesn't seem to bother him.

I've never had a dog, even growing up, who was bothered by fireworks. The closest to it is Zane, who I have now. He will bark at every whoosh, scream, bang etc but only if he can't see them. If he can either see them through the from window or out on the patio behind the house he will sit and watch them - in silence! He'll sit perfectly if out on a walk too to watch them if he can see them!

I did have a foster dog a couple of years back who was terrified. I ignored his reaction tot hem entirely but turning up the radio or TV didn't help. I ended up having a DAP collar then also one of the infusers that plug into the wall. It was the only way for him to be even remotely calm. The only problem was that the other dogs in the house were flaked out from early evening right through to the following morning.

Yesterday morning I had the (unpleasant) neighbours banging on the fence to wind up the dogs at around 6am along with fireworks going off in the distance. So Zane was going loopy because of the bangs. Then the more pleasant neighbours were banging on the walls for him to shut up. Not a chance!! Just made him worse.

Anyway, I feel for anyone who has a dog this time of year who is afraid or reacts to the fireworks. It's not fair on them. Fireworks are man made. When I was growing up they were let off on 5th November and if we were in Spain, on New Years Eve. Now they start mid-October and are almost constant until the end of November. Less than 2 weeks later they start up again as though people need to practice for the New Year. Ridiculous!