Having
a safe fourth of July
Noise sensitive pets can go to pieces
MetPet.com Staff Writer
 Every
noisy holiday leads to dogs and cats running heedlessly through windows,
doors and walls and out into the night. If your pet shows any
sensitivity to the snap, crackle and bazoom of
fireworks, make sure you:
1. Have a secure and relatively quiet place to leave them if they're
home alone. Outdoors is not the place to be on noisy nights.
If they're highly sensitive, you may need to crate them.
A radio set to a soothing (think Muzak or classical) station can
help create "white noise" and reduce the effect of the fireworks.
2. Outfit all your pets with a collar and ID tag and a microchip
just in case they bolt out of the house anyway.
3. Check to make sure they've made it through the night as soon as
possible. If they've bolted out of the house, you'll want to
find them before they bolt out of the neighborhood.
4. In extreme cases, you can talk to your veterinarian
about sedation.
Otherwise, just make sure
someone isn't throwing firecrackers at your pets and that they
aren't chewing the spent fireworks left on the street.
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