My dog sure is.
It all happened about a year ago. My dog, a little bichon shih-tzu (or however it's spelt), was hanging around with me and my mom was downstairs. She looked outside and noticed a huge dirt devil in our back alley. It was the biggest one she had ever seen. So she runs inside and screams, "TORNADO!!!". I'm thinking, yeah right, there's like a 0.5% chance we would get hit by a tornado, but anyways, I run downstairs into the basement with my mom and my dog is nervously following me. We get down in the basement and my mom describes the 'tornado' to me. After a little while, the wind calmed down, and we went back up stairs. It wasn't a tornado of course, just a huge gust of wind that knocked more than a few things over.
While all this is happening, my dog is sh!tting herself (not litterally). She's panting, running around, crying, and jumping at my mother and I.
Now everytime there is a thunderstorm/rainstorm/windstorm, she panicks and freaks out. We got her pills for it, but they don't help. For instance, last night we had a windstorm. She constantly jumps on and off of the bed, and onces shes off of it, she either cries her head off to come back up, or she runs around and digs in the carpet. She even tries to get under the bed.
So, is your dog a freakshow when there is a storm happening? If so, I feel your pain.
It all happened about a year ago. My dog, a little bichon shih-tzu (or however it's spelt), was hanging around with me and my mom was downstairs. She looked outside and noticed a huge dirt devil in our back alley. It was the biggest one she had ever seen. So she runs inside and screams, "TORNADO!!!". I'm thinking, yeah right, there's like a 0.5% chance we would get hit by a tornado, but anyways, I run downstairs into the basement with my mom and my dog is nervously following me. We get down in the basement and my mom describes the 'tornado' to me. After a little while, the wind calmed down, and we went back up stairs. It wasn't a tornado of course, just a huge gust of wind that knocked more than a few things over.
While all this is happening, my dog is sh!tting herself (not litterally). She's panting, running around, crying, and jumping at my mother and I.
Now everytime there is a thunderstorm/rainstorm/windstorm, she panicks and freaks out. We got her pills for it, but they don't help. For instance, last night we had a windstorm. She constantly jumps on and off of the bed, and onces shes off of it, she either cries her head off to come back up, or she runs around and digs in the carpet. She even tries to get under the bed.
So, is your dog a freakshow when there is a storm happening? If so, I feel your pain.
