07/10/2025
Now is a good time to start Noise Desensitisation. 🐶😽❤️
A month until Halloween 👻 🎃 then it's Bonfire night and New Year... But it's time to start thinking about your pets noise phobia NOW.
Countdown is on...
🎶Noise Desensitisation: Taking the nervousness out of the noise🎶
Noise anxiety: 50% of dogs react fearfully to some noise.
Statistically more bites happen around thunderstorms and fireworks, likely because of anxiety levels are our attempts to comfort frantic dogs.
Furthermore, if your pet has developed a new phobia as it ages, considering chronic pain and treating this can be essential to their holistic care of anxiety and phobias.
This can make firework season a very stressful time of year for both you and your pet!
➡️Noise phobias can be managed a number of ways but one very useful method is desensitisation and counter conditioning.
➡️Through repetition of quiet noise ( that are scary in louder levels), the pet learns to ignore the stimulus and the level of stimulation can be increased until higher levels of the stimulus are ignored.
➡️This is something that is best taken slowly with dedication, commitment and persistence and only using positive training techniques. If you start now you may make a positive difference to bonfire night and new year fireworks.
