How does thunder jacket for dogs work

For additional tips on how to stay calm during fireworks , thunderstorms , or vet visits , check out these blog posts. Different pets respond differently to calming solutions. If, after several tries, your pet is still in need of additional help to feel calm, we offer other calming products that work well either individually, or combined with the ThunderShirt.

Learn more about combining the powers of calm in this blog post. Almost all pets quickly learn to love their ThunderShirt. Many people have even told us stories about how their pets go and get their ThunderShirt and take it to their owners whenever a storm is coming!

And when there are several nights of salvos, pet owners can end up keeping their pet in a drugged condition for days. In the past, we repeatedly tried a ThunderShirt on a 9-year-old Chihuahua that has significant difficulties with Fourth of July fireworks. Instead of producing calm, every time the vest seemed to exacerbate the anxiety. Others have had success, however, as evidenced by product reviews on Amazon. I purchased this vest because I was putting a sports bra on her — yes I know, sports bra.

The material is so soft and breathable. They always recommend owners use the shirts in combination with other interventions, like medication or specific behavioral modifications.

A hallmark of Mullins' long-term behavioral work with sound-phobic animals is to desensitize the animals by exposing them to loud sounds slowly over time. For them, an anxiety shirt may be the easiest option this year. You can get them quickly, and put them on your animal immediately.

One study shows dog-appeasing pheromones can calm canine noise-associated anxiety, but two others were inconclusive. Learn reports that she has treated pets who have separation anxiety with only pheromones and found they worked well. These results, of course, are also subjective. Neither anxiety shirts no pheromones is a "golden pill that solves all problems," she adds.

Neither has seen any adverse effects, unlike popular anti-anxiety medications—which can cause increased heart rate, lethargy, more stress, and vomiting. The worst that happens with thunder shirts is that animals find it annoying to be dressed.

But if you know your dog is going to be scared during Fourth of July, one of these shirts or vests might help. A few other things you can do to calm your dog down? If possible, remove them from anywhere the noise will be particularly loud.