Comments on: storm http://tara.aukerman.org/wordpress/2008/07/storm-2/ here I am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:21:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dad A. http://tara.aukerman.org/wordpress/2008/07/storm-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10602 Dad A. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:39:19 +0000 http://tara.elmadera.com/wordpress/2008/07/storm-2/#comment-10602 Mom A. again! Poor Jake. I hope you can eventually help him. We had big storms down here on the river that same night. Of course Dad A. pretty much slept through them. No flooding here, but the lightning knocked out our power by about 5:30 AM Tues. It was out for about 11 hours. Refrigerator off, so we had to be careful about opening the door. No internet. No phone (and our cell phone doesn't get a signal down here). No lights. No AC! No stove (electric). And no water! (This house gets well water and the pump is electric.) Dad said we were living like Little House on the Prairie. :)) By 3:30 it was warm enough in here that we gave up and drove back to Belpre (30-40 mins. away, the first town of any size) just to be in the air-conditioned car and find a restaurant for supper. By the time we got back to the house, we had power again! We sure were happy to see that!!! Mom A. again!
Poor Jake. I hope you can eventually help him.
We had big storms down here on the river that same night. Of course Dad A. pretty much slept through them. No flooding here, but the lightning knocked out our power by about 5:30 AM Tues. It was out for about 11 hours. Refrigerator off, so we had to be careful about opening the door. No internet. No phone (and our cell phone doesn’t get a signal down here). No lights. No AC! No stove (electric). And no water! (This house gets well water and the pump is electric.) Dad said we were living like Little House on the Prairie. :)) By 3:30 it was warm enough in here that we gave up and drove back to Belpre (30-40 mins. away, the first town of any size) just to be in the air-conditioned car and find a restaurant for supper. By the time we got back to the house, we had power again! We sure were happy to see that!!!

]]> By: Julie http://tara.aukerman.org/wordpress/2008/07/storm-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10600 Julie Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:58:19 +0000 http://tara.elmadera.com/wordpress/2008/07/storm-2/#comment-10600 One of our dogs has trouble with storms, too. Here's what we've done to bring him down from terrified out of his mind to just nervous: 1. Drown out the storm. Turn on all the lights and crank up some loud music or an action movie. You need to feel the sound -- after a while, it blends into the thunder. The harder it is to see and hear and feel the storm, the less scary it is. 2. Act as normal as possible. Do all the stuff your dog normally sees you do in the house, but don't fuss over him. The theory is that fussing over the dog reinforces (in his doggy brain) that there's something wrong. So play with him, work on his obedience commands, but don't coddle. That made a huge difference for our dog, and we've been able to give up the loud music for all but the worst storms. Good luck with your puppy! One of our dogs has trouble with storms, too. Here’s what we’ve done to bring him down from terrified out of his mind to just nervous:

1. Drown out the storm. Turn on all the lights and crank up some loud music or an action movie. You need to feel the sound — after a while, it blends into the thunder. The harder it is to see and hear and feel the storm, the less scary it is.

2. Act as normal as possible. Do all the stuff your dog normally sees you do in the house, but don’t fuss over him. The theory is that fussing over the dog reinforces (in his doggy brain) that there’s something wrong. So play with him, work on his obedience commands, but don’t coddle.

That made a huge difference for our dog, and we’ve been able to give up the loud music for all but the worst storms. Good luck with your puppy!

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