Here is the mid-Hudson Valley, we've had a couple of real thunderstorm doozies over the last few days. There was even a tornado warning last night in Dutchess County.
This video shows you a little of my world when the skies open up.
And believe it or not, Kate's a lot better than she used to be.
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Poor Kate, the tail says it all. Even our pooch, who is typically unaffected by thunderstorms, was a bit freaked out by nature's show of force yesterday. I know the right thing to do is to just carry on as usual, but it's tough not to give stressed pups a comforting hug or two.
Ah, the tale of the tail.
Yes, all the experts say to carry on as usual and not pay any attention to the quivering, drooling furball that is clinging to your legs.
That is, if "carrying on as usual" means pointing a video camera in the dog's face.
I have two dogs. One doesn't mind thunderstorms but the other one (who we adopted as a 9-year-old last fall) simply freaks out. On Monday she somehow wedged her 23-pound body into the 5-inch gap under the television stand and stayed there until the storm passed. Only the tip of her tail was sticking out.
When I was a kid, I had a dog who also was scared of thunder. She'd try to get outside (we lost some screen doors that way) and if she managed to escape, she'd try to scratch her way into one of our cars. (My parents loved that.) Once she actually jumped into the open window of a stranger's car that was parked at a neighbor's house. We'd had her since she was a puppy and didn't teach her that behavior -- somehow she came up with it on her own!
As I have said, Leslie, Kate is better now than she has been in the past. Thunderstorms while living in the concrete canyons of NYC weren't too bad. When we moved up to North East and a relatively isolated wood frame cottage, Kate really freaked out. Moving to Poughkeepsie seems to have calmed her down a bit during storms.
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