What does YOUR dog do during a thunderstorm?

[HopeHoops]

8 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Ignore it.
	1 (13%)
	Cower like a cat near a vacuum cleaner.
	0 (0%)
	Bark at it.
	1 (13%)
	Run around in circles and then crap on the flooor.
	0 (0%)
	Piss on the Chinese rug.
	0 (0%)
	Jump in your lap, pant, and get you all hot and sweaty with dog fur attached to your bare skin.
	3 (38%)
	Eat. It might be its last meal.
	0 (0%)
	Crawl under the bed.
	1 (13%)
	Throw up on something important.
	0 (0%)
	Other.
	2 (25%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[NightWatcher]

1. equal parts cower and bark. Also, are you outside my door?

A storm just passed and the Fuzz was about to wake the baby with his barking and whining.

[jp11]

2. No dog, cat.

[bluedigger]

3. My 60lb. Catahoula becomes a lapdog.

[RebelOne]

4. My Chihuahua hides behind the couch.

Nothing bothers the mini-Pinscher. When my Rottweiler was still here (she passed in 2010 because of cancer), nothing bothered her either, not even fireworks.

[pipi_k]

5. My two Shepherds try to

jump in my lap and hide in my clothing.

At the same time.

One weighs 88 lbs, the other weighs 70 lbs.

They're trying to tell me they want their doggy drugs (calming tabs).

I dose them up and put them in their crates, then spray a towel with Dog Appeasing Pheromone, drape it across the front, and they usually fall asleep.

[Remmah2]

6. All of the above, two dogs.

Nothing worse than getting 2x 70# in you face at 2am.

The cats don't care. Totally cold and heartless. They sit on the top of the dresser and mock me as I struggle for sleep.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. The only thing that seems to upset my yellow lab is if he thinks I'm angry with him.

[hobbit709]

8. Jake is deaf so he can't hear it.

Marcy goes outside and plays in the rain.

[TrogL]

9. 3 doxies barking non-stop

Any one dog will bark, which sets the other two off. You just nicely get them stopped, then the dog across the street will start barking to warn other dogs that ours have stopped barking and the whole world needs to know it, which sets ours off again, followed by the rest of the block.

I've tried howling just for something different but they just look at me funny.

[HopeHoops]

10. Yeah, that's how dogs work. There's one in the neighborhood I call "The World's Stupidest Dog"

The owner drives around with that one and another that's quiet, but she puts the window down and the one barks constantly. It barks ALL of the time, even if it's in the house or being walked. Ours used to bark back, but I kept yelling, "QUIET! It's the World's Stupidest Dog. You don't need to join the stupidity!!!" They don't bark back at that one anymore.

[OriginalGeek]

11. I voted jump in your lap

although technically it's usually my daughter's lap. It's her Papillon so she gets most of the dog hair in her food. But that dog do not like storms - even heavy rain makes her nervous and panting and shaking but when the lightning strikes and the thunder shakes the house, she's just about the most pitiful thing I've ever seen.

[HopeHoops]

12. It's my experience that the larger a dog is, the more certain it is that God's angry at it.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. Good poll!

My current pup is pretty good, doesn't get too worried about thunder unless it totally rocks the house. Then, he'll just give me a worried look, but he absolutely refuses to go out in the rain. But my Cairn Terrier was inconsolable, would totally freak out, try to hide anywhere, even places he didn't fit, and destroyed more than one door in the house. If any of us were out anywhere, at the first sign of thunder we'd immediately race for home!

[LWolf]

14. Other: several of the above. nt

[byeya]

15. Finds a sofa with a view of the storm and calmly watches it

[femmocrat]

16. Three dogs, three different reactions.

The male just finds a corner and will lie there quietly. No drama.

The older female gets frantic, paces, pants, and will try to squeeze into some little corner where we will later have to extricate her. If we can catch her, the best place for her is the crate. However, she can detect storms that are miles and sometimes hours away.

The baby female barks at the loud thunder and just kind of follows us around. She is pretty oblivious to noises. She is just sounding the alarm.

[trof]

17. Other: Go Apeshit!

Our poor German Shepherd, Nasha, was absolutely TERRIFIED of thunderstorms.
We tried all kinds of stuff.
Tried a CD of thunderstorms and played it for a whole day, thinking that would get her used to the noise.
Nope.

Even bought a DVD featuring a dog massager.
Nothing worked.

She clawed off door trim trying to 'get away'.

[bigwillq]

18. My dog (a chihuahua) really doesn't have much of a reaction

to thunderstorms. I hope it stays that way.

[Archae]

19. My neighbor has a shepherd mix...

Thunder sends that big coward to hide in his shower stall.

[avebury]

20. My largest (and oldest) dog used to get really stessed out

by thunderstorms. If one happened at night she would come flying up onto the bed and she normally doesn't come up on my bed. But since her hearing isn't what it used to be I don't even know if she is aware of a thunderstorm when she is inside the house. My other two have always pretty much ignored storms.

[Raven]

21. The bathtub. My wonderful black lab/collie mix

who is now gone, used to try to get into the bathtub. My Newfoundland (135 lbs) used to try to get under the bed (pretty funny). My Tinker just pants and follows me around and looks up to the sky or ceiling, whatever, and the younger one, Shelta, doesn't give a shit.

[HopeHoops]

23. Black lab/collie sounds beautiful. Pics? I've got a kitten named Tink. Her brother is Peter.

[TorchTheWitch]

29. that's what my first Akita did

As long as he was safe in the tubby with the curtain pulled across (he'd do that himself) he was just fine and have himself a nice nap though he just barely fit in there. But try to get him out before the storm was well and truly thoroughly and completely over... no way, no how. Need a shower before the storm is over? Tough. You'd have to either wait or shower with him in there (and there wasn't any room in there for both of us).

[Incitatus]

22. Hides in the closet or under the coffee table.

Then when there's a close strike, he jumps up and knocks the table over.

[BlueJazz]

24. Mine tends to pass gas (Farts)

I think he farted once and it stopped lightening so he's gotten the idea he has some sort of power. He's a smart but very weird dog.

[TorchTheWitch]

25. Other - he wants to run outside and play in the mud the rain creates

He LOVES mud, and there's nothing like a thunderstorm to instantly create vast swathes of glorious squishy mud. It's me that has to resist the urge to hide cowering in the closet and whimpering. I hate thunder.

[hlthe2b]

26. My recently lost girlie would cower in my arms for a little while then make a beeline to the shower.

the first time she did that, I looked everywhere for her--when I finally thought to look behind the shower curtain and saw those eyes reflecting back at me I screamed bloody murder with Hitchcock's shower scene in Psycho in mind. After that, I just figured, why not.

[turtlerescue1]

27. Three canines, three responses.

The wolf-dog doesn't like the noises. or vibrations or ??, but she just likes to get close.

The dachsie, ignores storms.

The Chi-RatTerrier-JackRussell goes nuts, he doesn't just want to be held, he wants to share your skin with you.

Its a zoo.

By the way-Sunday the ChiMinPin foster female went to her "forever home". She was a real sweetie, still- I don't mind fostering but boy am I delighted when they leave.

[HopeHoops]

30. The world needs more people like you. I volunteered at a local dog rescue a few years ago.

It was mostly at fundraising events (flipping burgers, hot dogs, etc.) or at adoption promotion events in shopping malls or pet stores. Usually I took walking duty at the latter. Every single one of those dogs was a sweetheart and I don't recall any of them being pure breeds - all mutts and all sizes.

We have our own zoo, so I can relate - two dogs, 3 adult cats, two kittens who are certain they can fly (4 months old), a rabbit, a bunch of hermit crabs, and a recently deceased fish.

[liberal N proud]

28. My daughter has a Katrina rescue dog that jumps in the bathtub.

[Whoa_Nelly]

31. Seneca

Living to age 16, Seneca loved to go outside, sit on the covered patio, watch and listen to the storm, all the while wearing her happy doggie grin. Originally from Tulsa, OK, she was a doggie storm chaser in her own way.

[HopeHoops]

32. My late cockapeagle was terrified of them until she went blind and deaf. She hit 16 too.

At least the snoofler never gave out! She could still find the tiniest scrap of anything that fell on the floor, and with three very young children, there was a lot of that. We never realized how MUCH there was until my dog died. From then on, the floor was covered in food after every meal.