hi everybody and welcome back to relax my dog, today me and Milo are going to
be talking about dogs and bonfire night and why those two don't particularly
mix very well and to definitely get you guys prepared for bonfire night, to
make sure that your dog is staying safe during this time as well because I know
a lot of the time you as the owner will want to go out and have fun and go and
spend time with family and friends but sometimes you need to make sure that
you're looking after your dog, now before we do begin, definitely do go down
below to the comments and let me know what your plans are for bonfire night, I
absolutely love it seeing all the fireworks all the sparklers
and definitely staying safe as well during that time, but definitely do
let me know down below what your plans are, if you're doing anything at all, now
obviously bonfire night is a really very exciting time for us humans and owners
because we get to go out and we get to spend time with family and friends and
we also get to just enjoy the night and have some fun, but normally for a lot of
dogs, bonfire night is one of the most scary times over the year because they
absolutely hate fireworks, if you imagine being in a dogs position you don't
really know what's happening and you just hear all these bangs that are going on
around the house, it is a really really scary thought to think about but today
we're going to talk about what you guys should be preparing for for your dog
and how to keep them safe during this time, now our top tip number one is to
definitely think about how your dog will react during this time and if you think
it's important to go to the vets because the vets can actually give you diffusers
which you can actually plug in to your wall sockets and also defuse the air and
I'll make it smell nice or a nice scent for your dog anyway and diffusers are
known to sort of release calming chemicals into the air that help to
relax your dog a massive amount so definitely do think about whether
that is important for you guys or if you feel that your dog is going to be
absolutely petrified during that time this might be a good way to do so
without harming your dog in any way, however if your dog is absolutely
petrified definitely do your research into sorts of behavioral therapy
especially if they are younger so you can learn about how you can change this
behavior that is related to being scared around the fireworks, so it's
definitely important to be organized around bonfire night because you don't
want to get to the night and have absolutely no plan on what you're going
to do to help your dog, the first one is to make sure that you're walking your
dog throughout the daytime opposed to during the night, if you take
your dog on two walks per day it's definitely important to sort of do one
in the early hours of the morning and do one more sort of the early afternoon so that
you definitely are missing out on any fireworks that are going on, you want to
make sure that your dogs and also your cats if you have them as well are safely
locked indoors because cats especially are very very inquisitive and will want
to go and sort of explore areas that they probably should not be exploring so
definitely do make sure all of the animals are safely indoors during
bonfire night, now our next step is to definitely close all of the windows and
the curtains in your house just to make sure that they are sort of enclosed and the
noise is a bit muffled, you can't really hear what's going on outside, if you do
have a TV or you're spending the night in the house definitely do comfort
your dog and then just make sure that they are nicely chilled, it also is
probably a good idea to have a look at your local sort of area and what bonfire night
things they're going to be doing to see whether it's close by the house
if it's far away so you can sort of look into what is going to happen on the
night and so you guys are prepared, our next step is to make sure that you're
putting some music or some TV on just to muffle the sound of the fireworks a little
bit, here at relax my dog we have a bunch of music that you guys it can put on
for your dog, some of our videos on YouTube or actually eight hours plus so
there is definitely a lot of music on the relax my dog youtube channel
that you can play to make sure you are relaxing your dog down, our
next one is a really important one and this is to create a hiding space or a
quiet space for your dog to go to, whether that is sort of your dining
table with a big sheet over the top so they are enclosed or you do something
with their bed that makes it sort of away or in a separate room that has
no windows just somewhere that you know in your house is gonna be quite quiet or
your dog will feel quite safe in that area! Well that is it for this week's
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