Caring for your dog during fireworks season - YuCALM Dog

As mentioned before we love animals and adore our pets. Being animal lovers we wholeheartedly believe that caring for animals is extremely important.

We believe that being a pet owner carries an important responsibility and that if you take on the role of being a pet owner and welcome an animal into your home that you should ensure that the animal’s wellbeing, health and happiness is catered for. As they say ‘a dog is for life, not just for Christmas’, which we believe applies to all animals as having a pet is a lifelong commitment and responsibility.

Lintbells who make natural products of tasty, nutritional supplements for pets that are proven to improve their health, also believe that animal wellbeing is of the upmost importance.

Fireworks as a family of four went with a quiet bang!

One of my fondest memories from childhood was going to watch fireworks every year with my mum and sister. I loved going to our local bonfire night event and watching spectacular fireworks light up the night sky above the castle ruins of our local town.

As I loved our yearly tradition of enjoying bonfire night together as a family now that I have my very own family I want to carry on that tradition and enjoy watching fireworks with my children.

Since Bug was little we have watched fireworks with him a few times but whilst he has loved the dazzling fireworks show not being a fan of big noise he has often asked to leave after a few big bangs due to the noise.

As I want Bug to be able to enjoy fireworks but not be upset by the noise I started looking at ear defenders for him. During my research I realised that being exposed to loud noises such as fireworks could be damaging to both Bug and Jelly Bean’s hearing.

The average decibels for a firecracker are 140db with the exposure time until hearing damage being immediate!

With more than a third of all hearing loss being attributed to noise and fireworks being a possible source of hearing damage I wanted to make sure to protect my children’s hearing this bonfire night so we could enjoy a fireworks show happy in the knowledge their hearing is protected whilst we watch the night light up with fireworks.

Em’s 4 Kids are passionate about protecting the precious hearing of children and as such have designed ear defenders to protect young children from noise-induced hearing loss.

To help us have a happy and safe bonfire night this year Em’s 4 Kids sent both Bug and Jelly Bean a pair of ear defenders.

Bonfire Night Safety Tips.

Now that Halloween has passed we have another seasonal event to enjoy – Bonfire Night.

Bonfire and fireworks night can be a fun and magical experience that the whole family can enjoy but to make sure it is a happy, fun and safe experience it is important to keep the whole family especially children and pets safe.

Have a bang-tastic Bonfire Night with Asda.

A wide range of colourful and sparkly fireworks are available at Asda stores now!

Help your pets this fireworks season - win an Adaptil Calming Diffuser for Dogs with PetShopBowl.

As the nights are drawing and a wintery chill fills the air we are fast approaching fireworks season.  Whilst the colourful fireworks with their loud explosions may be mesmerizing and awe-inspiring for us humans our animal friends can be left scared and unsettled by the unpredictable loud noises that resonate for miles around on fireworks night.

The unpredictable loud noises of fireworks can have a strong effect on pets causing them fear and stress. The noise of fireworks can cause various stress reactions for pets such as withdrawing into themselves, hiding away, wanting to escape from the noise which may lead to them injuring themselves in the panic, soiling the house or shivering with fear.

The following tips may help make fireworks night a calm, safe and less frightening night for you and your pets especially if you know your pet/s hates the noise of fireworks night –

* keep animals inside

* create a hiding place for your pet to snuggle in

* prepare for unusual behaviour and don’t get angry with your pet

* close windows and curtains

* if your pet is used to the sound of the TV/music turn it on to help muffle the sound of fireworks (but not on too loud)

* if you have small pets partly cover their cage/pen with a blanket to help sound proof from the fireworks but make sure they can still look out if they want to and provide extra bedding so your pet can burrow and hide

Realising the importance of keeping pets happy and calm during fireworks night PetShopBowl – a nationwide pet food home delivery company – stock Adaptil and Feliway to help keep your pet calm and happy during firework season.

Being the kind, pet loving company that they are PetShopBowl are kindly offering one of my readers a little help in keeping their pet calm and happy on fireworks night this year thanks to the great giveaway prize they are supplying to one lucky winner…..an Adaptil Calming Diffuser for Dogs (48ml).