This year marks the first 4th of July for Sparky with us. The past few years we would go watch fireworks either by Purdue West or drive to the top of one of the campus parking garages. This year however we decided to just stay at home. If we wanted to watch the fireworks, we could easily just look out our backdoor and probably see more than enough.
On Sunday night we started to notice a problem though. When we were outside walking Sparky, he suddenly heard a firework and got very scared. He tried to get back to the house as quickly as possible and I had to run after him to keep up.
Last night this got much worse once the fireworks started. From about 6pm on he refused to ‘do’ anything when we did get him outside. At one point, I had to pick him up and carry him outside at which point he just would get as close to me as possible while shaking uncontrollably.
This morning he was leery to go outside, but was OK once I started walking him. Needless to say, fireworks are not something that Sparky is fond of.
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