Follow These Tips to Help Your Pet
Through Firework Season.
Most people find firework displays fun, but pets find
the noise and commotion very distressing. Animals have extremely
sensitive hearing. To a dog or cat, even the distant sound of
fireworks can seem like a bomb exploding.
To ensure your pets' comfort and safety, Lewis Clark
Animal Shelter recommends:
Leave pets at home instead of bringing them to
public picnics, fairs, fireworks display, etc.
When walking dogs, keep them on a leash at all
times.
Keep pets safe from the noise in a quiet, sheltered
and escape-proof area.
Do not leave an anxious dog alone in a yard or in a
house with access to a screened or open window.
Consider medicating your pet if you know they
suffer from noise phobias. Ask your veterinarian for more
information.
Keep all cats – even indoor/outdoor cats – indoors.
A screened porch is a safe compromise for a few days.
Every firework season we find our shelter filled with
lost pets. We receive dogs and cats who aren’t wearing tags, who
aren’t microchipped, and even worse, pets that have been hit by cars
and seriously injured. Animals wearing identification can often be
returned to their homes immediately.
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you in the care of your pets by providing reliable, up-to-date
animal health information from the veterinarians and experts of the
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speak for themselves?
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euthanized in the United States while countless others are
abandoned, neglected or abused.
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