Thunder storm season is upon
us. If you are the owner of a furry friend who pants more than a babe in a
“Whitesnake” video every time lightning strikes, chances are you’re looking for
a solution.
Is medication the answer to
subdue your dog or are there other more holistic methods? This really shouldn’t
even be a question for guru girl. If in doubt, I will always go the medication route. Natural child birth versus epidural?
Epidural, for sure.
I firmly believe this is a
dad’s only job in the delivery room:
to charm the nurses so they’ll put his baby mama first in line for the
anesthesiologist and his needle of bliss. (That doesn’t sound so good but you
know what I mean).
I’m all about seeing how the
other half lives though. So for our
eyes-rolling-back-in-his-head-he’s-so-scared-of-thunder dog I gave in and
bought the Thunder Shirt. A thunder shirt is an incredibly tight jumpsuit that
you pop onto your dog at the first hint of thunder. It squeezes the daylights
out of your dog and is supposed to produce feelings of calm, similar to the
effect of the burrito wrap on newborns.
Have you ever tried squeezing a
terrified dog into a girdle? It is such a stressful, anxiety-producing
experience that you’d better have gotten that prescription for doggy Xanax
anyway because you are gonna have to
pop a few tabs of it just to quell your
anxiety.
So there’s your answer: you can
try the Thunder Shirt, but you’d better get the Xanax prescription filled
anyway. For either you or Fido or both of you. Also, make sure to not throw away the instructions for Thunder Shirt application or the next time you
go to use it, your dog will look something like the photo below. Editor’s note: Not that guru girl would be
so careless as to throw away directions. This photo was staged to illustrate a
point. Probably.
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