Thunderstorms are more common in the summer or hotter months, but they can occur at any time of the year. Finding ways to calm your dog during storms can feel like a never-ending search, particularly if your dog is one of the many who struggle with thunderstorms. If your dog is frightened or reactive to them, it can become stressful both for your dog and you when you’re trying to figure out how to calm a reactive dog.
Fearing thunderstorms is very common amongst our canine friends and it is thought this occurs in those who are very sensitive to noise. Dogs hear to a higher level of decibels than we humans can, and understandably, those with noise anxiety due to past trauma, often have difficulty with thunderstorms. Although dogs are now domesticated some canine instinctual traits from their wild days remain, such as being intuitively wired to be cautious or wary of loud noises as a survival mechanism.
