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How to Keep your Fur Baby Calm During Fireworks

Preparing Your Fur Baby for Fireworks

With the holiday season fast approaching, it’s important to prepare your furry friends for a potentially unsettling experience: fireworks. While many people look forward to this dazzling display of lights and sound, the explosive noise can be incredibly distressing for Fur Babies. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to keep your four-legged companions calm during fireworks. So, buckle up and let’s delve into some helpful tips!

Create a safe haven
Firstly, designate a secure and comfortable space where your fur baby can retreat when they feel anxious or scared. This could be a cozy room with their bed, favorite toys, and a few hiding spots. Ensure that this space is familiar and consider playing soothing background music to drown out loud noises.
Exercise early on
Take your fur babies for a long walk or play an engaging game earlier in the day to help them expend energy. Physical exercise will leave them tired and more likely to relax once evening fireworks commence.
Comfort through company
Familiar faces bring solace during stressful times. Stay by your fur baby's side if possible and provide loving reassurance. Offer affectionate touches, gentle pats, and speak to them soothingly—your presence alone can be greatly comforting.
Noise-masking tools
Providing additional layers of comfort can alleviate anxiety. Use white noise machines, fans, or calming music that will muffle intrusive sounds, making them less alarming for your fur babies. There are also specialized CDs or phone apps aimed specifically at reducing stress in fur babies.
Distraction therapy
Engage your fur babies with interactive toys or puzzles to distract them from the outside commotion. These toys will focus their attention on something positive and enjoyable rather than the disturbing fireworks.  
Consult your vet
It's always wise to seek professional advice from your veterinarian if you know fireworks will disturb your fur baby. They may suggest alternative solutions, such as sedatives or mild anti-anxiety medications to be used in extreme cases.
Tire them mentally
Mental stimulation can tire fur babies just as much as physical exertion. Therefore, consider activities that challenge their brainpower, such as treat-dispensing toys or simple obedience exercises. A tired mind often leads to a sleepy and relaxed fur baby. 
Use compression garments
Wrap your fur babies with specially designed anxiety-reducing garments like ThunderShirts, which provide gentle pressure on their bodies. These can have a calming effect similar to swaddling a baby.
Create a cozy den
Make sure access points to the outside are minimized so that your fur baby cannot flee during moments of panic. Close doors and windows, draw curtains, and maintain good ventilation to ensure safe space while blocking out flashes of light.
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Despite all your efforts, sometimes unpredictable events occur. To increase the chances of being reunited with a frightened pet, make certain they are wearing up-to-date identification tags. Microchipping is another invaluable safeguard for proper identification if they do manage to escape.

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Just Like Human Children, Fur Babies Become What They Learn.

Attached is a link to Dorothy Law Nolte’s poem, “Children Learn What They Live”. This poem is amazing whether you are teaching two-legged or four-legged children.

Whether you are a Pet Parent and/or a human parent, when you bring your children (Fur or otherwise) up in a home full of love, with no violence towards your significant other/spouse or children, that’s what they will take out into the world. This is how your Precious Fur Babies will see the world in which they live. This is also how your two legged children will act, behave and give to the world in which they live.

You can buy a copy of this poem on Etsy and hang it in a prominent place in your home to remind you of what a wonderful place this World could be when we live by this Philosophy and pass it on to our Fur and Human Babies. Imagine how Loving and Peaceful and Wonderful this World could be when everyone in this World would Teach their Fur and Human children a Loving World and understand what happens when they are taught the negative things in the poem and what the consequences are.

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