07-02-2020, 06:41 PM
It is really strange how much it bothers some dogs and not others.
When my father was growing up during the depression in the hills of Kentucky dogs were tools used for hunting. If a dog was "gun shy" it was useless and would get "culled out".
Just getting a gun out in front of a "gun shy" dog will be enough for it to run away and hide. But dogs that love to hunt go crazy with excitement when they see the gun. It is like a dog seeing a leash and getting excited to go on a walk.
My ex-wife has an Afghan Hound that has extreme social anxiety. She says she thinks it is because the dog was abused as a puppy. But it could be that the dog was just born crazy like some people are. Most dogs that are afraid of noises have not been injured or hurt by something with a loud noise. Instead they are just born that way.
And it bother me to see it. I had a dog that would crawl up in your lap during fireworks, but I know people who had dogs that would tear down screen doors and crawl under beds to hide even in thunderstorms.
When my father was growing up during the depression in the hills of Kentucky dogs were tools used for hunting. If a dog was "gun shy" it was useless and would get "culled out".
Just getting a gun out in front of a "gun shy" dog will be enough for it to run away and hide. But dogs that love to hunt go crazy with excitement when they see the gun. It is like a dog seeing a leash and getting excited to go on a walk.
My ex-wife has an Afghan Hound that has extreme social anxiety. She says she thinks it is because the dog was abused as a puppy. But it could be that the dog was just born crazy like some people are. Most dogs that are afraid of noises have not been injured or hurt by something with a loud noise. Instead they are just born that way.
And it bother me to see it. I had a dog that would crawl up in your lap during fireworks, but I know people who had dogs that would tear down screen doors and crawl under beds to hide even in thunderstorms.
