Just ordered a Thundershirt

I hope it works for you, it has been wonderful for my daughter's dog.
Millie is now 15 but she's still terrified of thunder storms and fireworks and any kind of pounding.
We got the ThunderShirt several years ago and it has worked beautifully.
Best of luck and make sure you put it on well in advance of any activity. Millie will likely have hers on all weekend.

Sher

Nothing has helped our poor Morkie. Calming tabs, jacket, nothing.
Tabs helped our old boy Standard Poodle if I got them into him before the Thunder.

Fritz will actually seek out his thundershirt in the event of an approaching thunderstorm. Has helped him immensely. Haven't tried around fireworks, etc.

Our Maltese will actually go to where we keep the shirt look up at it and growel and whine for it to be put on her.

Ours works well too....she still doesn't like the thunder or fireworks or my gun but she tolerates all of them with the shirt on....Dennis

Until the shirt arrives, you can use a t-shirt, child's probably and put it on him. Cinch it up over his back and tie a knot it in so it's snug and it will do the same thing.

Good luck. My dogs don't need one, but my kids both do this for their dogs and they are good to go.

Dale

My Daisy has one and it has helped her a lot. Keep us updated on how it works.

We just have well saved our money, our Schnauzer hates his. Every time we have put it on him he will not move from the spot he is in and acts like he is being hurt. Once we take off he is fine. Found the best thing to do is just hold him till it's over.

My dogs are afraid of lightening and thunder also. I just put a tight fitting T shirt on them and it seems to help reduce the anxiety level about 50-60%

Strangely enough when I lived in SE Asia where the storms are much much more ferocious than here in the states they were not nearly as afraid of the thunder and lighting as they are here.

It's all the glowing reports in past posts that made me decide to try this. Plus, I'm watching what he does when Ben's frightened - just now, there was a clap of thunder, and I found him sitting by the back door (the farthest point from our mostly-glass lake front) and he was quietly shaking. I have a "pup tent", so I made it comfy with a bed; and put it back there so he has a nice place to hide. Just doing that distracted him enough to stop the shaking - my hope is that if I can make this holiday feel safe enough for him, he might still get over it.

Ike my Aussie was terrified by air compressors and all accessories that used compressed air. I'm talking bugged eyes, heavy panting, shaking...the whole "freaked-out dog" thing. Ike also LOVED to camp - and one of the places we camped, when Ed started drag racing, was the race track. The dogs LOVED going to the track (?) - but of course, people were constantly adjusting the air pressure in their tires. Over the course of a year, Ike realized that to do this thing he loved meant being around air compressors - and he settled down to the point that we'd be walking down pit road and if he'd hear air hissing, he'd look at me as if to say "GEEZ I HATE that, let's walk on" and he was fine.

So we'll see how it goes this year.