Ben takes no notices of heavy traffic, aircraft or helicopters. He does look up to see where a helicopter is - I've never had a dog look up to find something before and find that most odd; he looks up at birds too. Fireworks, a slamming car door, a car back firing and thunder having him going low and trying to get home as quickly as possible or creeping off to hide if he's indoors, but not until there's actually noise.
The storm the other night didn't finish until 7.30 am, and I took him out into the garden for an 'empty' at 7 am, which is the normal time I take him for a walk. I didn't try the walk because I knew he'd go very low and try to drag me home if there was a clap of thunder, which isn't fun with a dodgy knee, so I thought the garden would be better. As the direction he'd go in is unpredictable if there's any sudden loud noise, we never have him off the lead even in the garden because it isn't enclosed. He was fine until the thunder clap (which turned out to be the last of the storm). Then he went down to creeping position trying to get back indoors as fast as he could - straight across the top of two raised flower beds if he'd had his way - in panic, veering blindly left and right, but still 'listening' to me to get him back indoors the quickest and safest way. Every Thursday evenings throughout the summer holiday season Poole has a "fun" evening. It alternates one week on the quay, the following on a beach a mile and a half up the coast. At 10pm each Thursday there are fireworks. We can sometimes hear the ones from the quay, and sometimes not. We know when it's 10 pm and the "fun" is on the quay because Ben hides as he can obviously hear them even if we can't. Neither we nor Ben hear the ones on the beach. Once a year there are "Proms in the Park" at a country park about a mile away. We don't hear the music but we do hear the inevitable fireworks. We can also see quite a few of them from our living room window, and Ben's OK if he can see them. Seems to satisfy him, but I'm bored after the first two. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
