I'm at my wits end with this problem my German Shepherd is having and I would love any ideas you'd like to throw at me.
We are remodeling this house (another topic) and Amy cannot stand the noise from all the power tools. She's really terrified so badly that I've never seen anything like this. Its been going on now for a few weeks and you'd think she would get used to the noises but no such luck. We have turned our front porch into the designated saw mill and there is a compressor that is really loud that vibrates the whole porch and is powering the nail gun. This stuff is extremely loud. The nail gun sounds like a gun shot. All the tools are so loud that I can hear the noise when I'm up at the barn with the radio on. Its worse than that: I can hear these noises all over most of the property, no exaggeration whatsoever.
Amy goes completely into panic mode when the tools go off to the turn of shaking worse than any dog I have ever seen. I'm really afraid she's going to have a heart attack or something. She starts pawing on me and is actually tearing me up all over my arms and legs and even my back. She doesn't know if she wants to be inside our outside. She has nowhere to hide where she cannot hear the tools. I found her yesterday in the back seat of my truck, laying on the floor shaking like crazy. She jumped through the window. I have found her hiding up in the barn loft shaking. She actually jumped in a stall with one of the horses and was laying in the corner shaking half to death. This morning took the cake when I heard a constant crashing noise when she was trying to get outside she was body slamming the door. A miracle she didn't break the glass in it. I have been leaving our back door open for her now so she can run and hide somewhere and come back in when she wants to. The only place she feels safe is either in my arms or when I take her for a ride in the truck away from here and I can't ride her around all day long. I thought about bringing her to Dan's house but he's never home so that's not an option. She wouldn't stay anywhere without me anyhow. She also does this when someone shoots off a gun or fireworks on the 4th of July.
All I can think of is getting a tranquilizer from the vet. But this remodeling is going to go on for another month or more and I can't tranquilize my dog every single day. I feel so sorry for my dog I don't know what to do to help her through this. I have to wonder if all this noise is physically hurting her eardrums.
Any ideas are very much appreciated.
We are remodeling this house (another topic) and Amy cannot stand the noise from all the power tools. She's really terrified so badly that I've never seen anything like this. Its been going on now for a few weeks and you'd think she would get used to the noises but no such luck. We have turned our front porch into the designated saw mill and there is a compressor that is really loud that vibrates the whole porch and is powering the nail gun. This stuff is extremely loud. The nail gun sounds like a gun shot. All the tools are so loud that I can hear the noise when I'm up at the barn with the radio on. Its worse than that: I can hear these noises all over most of the property, no exaggeration whatsoever.
Amy goes completely into panic mode when the tools go off to the turn of shaking worse than any dog I have ever seen. I'm really afraid she's going to have a heart attack or something. She starts pawing on me and is actually tearing me up all over my arms and legs and even my back. She doesn't know if she wants to be inside our outside. She has nowhere to hide where she cannot hear the tools. I found her yesterday in the back seat of my truck, laying on the floor shaking like crazy. She jumped through the window. I have found her hiding up in the barn loft shaking. She actually jumped in a stall with one of the horses and was laying in the corner shaking half to death. This morning took the cake when I heard a constant crashing noise when she was trying to get outside she was body slamming the door. A miracle she didn't break the glass in it. I have been leaving our back door open for her now so she can run and hide somewhere and come back in when she wants to. The only place she feels safe is either in my arms or when I take her for a ride in the truck away from here and I can't ride her around all day long. I thought about bringing her to Dan's house but he's never home so that's not an option. She wouldn't stay anywhere without me anyhow. She also does this when someone shoots off a gun or fireworks on the 4th of July.
All I can think of is getting a tranquilizer from the vet. But this remodeling is going to go on for another month or more and I can't tranquilize my dog every single day. I feel so sorry for my dog I don't know what to do to help her through this. I have to wonder if all this noise is physically hurting her eardrums.
Any ideas are very much appreciated.
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