One Heart Healing Center

The place to learn animal communication and holistic practices for pets and people

  • Transformation
  • Animal Communication
    • Energy Healing
    • TTouch
      • Horses
      • For People
      • Rescue, Rehab & Zoos
      • Mission & Philosophy
    • Essential Oils and Pets
  • Boutique
  • Programs
    • Jitter Busters Self-Study Course
    • Animal Communication Training Secrets
    • Animal Energy Systems Training
    • Pet Hospice Training
    • Complete Training Series
  • Work With Sandy
    • “Get Acquainted” Session
    • Returning Clients
    • FAQ’s
    • About Sandy
  • Events
  • Client Buzz
  • Blogs

3 Tips to Help Your Pets During Firework Season

By Sandy Rakowitz 1 Comment

puppy scared fireworksIt’s possible to enhance the confidence, courage and calmness of your pets during scary times like fireworks, thunderstorms and other sudden, scary noises.

Loud and sudden sounds like Fireworks may not be the favorite sounds for your pets.  Thunder, lightening, gunshots, cars backfiring, explosive or sudden loud sounds, sirens, pounding rain on roofs can all be scary for dogs, cats and horses.  Here are tips that can enhance your pet’s confidence, courage and calmness during scary times.

Methods helping your pets deal with reactivity to sounds can range from punishment, negative reinforcement techniques, positive reinforcement, confinement, comfort and medications.

Looking at behaviors of your pets in relation to the fight, flight, freeze reactions can offer a new perspective and fuller understanding of what is going on for your animal.  

Often we simply do not know what to do to help behaviors that are difficult.

A new vantage point can offer compassion, why some methods don’t work so easily, and can help you make more informed choices about what you can do to help your animals more readily – and effectively.

Let’s look at Motivating Forces 

cat scared under blanket

Those Deeply Rooted Instincts like fight, flight, freeze, faint or fool around can create reactions when danger is perceived. 

When scared in the wild, it is natural to fight, flee, freeze, faint, & under some circumstances to fool around in order to distract.

In order for your body to RUN for your life, Fight as if your life were at stake, or Freeze to make yourself invisible – are all to save your life. 

A few of the body functions regulated by these instincts are the size of your 
pupil for intensified vision; gut motility and urinary output to ‘unload’ your system 
so all focus and ability is on the task at hand for survival. And adrenaline gets pumped. 
Most people are familiar with the fight-or-flight stress reactions.

Some Symptoms we see with our animals when distressed

  • Nervous and unsettled
  • Shallow breathing, panting
  • Pacing
  • Vomiting
  • Destructive behavior like chewing or clawing at furniture, walls, windows
  • Escape attempts

These behaviors work really well out in the wild for animals.  In domestic situations however, these reactions do not always get along easily with everyday life. 

For instance:

  • Have you ever thought your horse or dog is really smart generally, 
    but simply can’t understand why they can’t think under certain circumstances?  
  • Have you ever been frustrated or embarrassed when at the vet’s 
    office, or when a loud noise is scaring them, or when they are 
    highly stressed and you can’t do a thing to change their behavior?
  • Have you ever been scared and cannot think clearly yourself?  
  • Or ever been really upset and cannot be soothed out of it?  
  • Has anyone ever told you to “Just get over it?”  Or ‘Just relax!”  
  • Or perhaps you have wanted to relax or fall asleep at night but you just can’t make yourself ‘just relax’ or sleep?

Our survival instinct is extremely strong and not easily be overridden by ‘thinking.’ Your body chooses according to what it perceives rather than what you think.  The same thing happens for all of us, including dogs, cats, horses.  

3 Key Holistic Tools for Thunderstorm and Firework Season

Whatever the cause, you can take definite steps to help your animal.  Here are a few of the tools that I have found to be extremely useful.

  1. Essential Oils Freshly cultivated and steam distilled, the essential oils in Young Living’s collection are life-enhancing gifts from the plant kingdom, revered for centuries for their restorative properties to body, mind, and spirit.
  2. Flower Essences are energetic tools. They offer us information of an energetic nature. We experience them energetically and use them in our energetic systems, something I also refer to as our electrical systems for support and enhancing greater balance.
  3. Tellington TTouch is a gentle approach to influencing behavior, health & performance.  More than just a training method, TTouch is a system of gentle touch that works at the cellular level to activate the body’s potential for radiant health and well-being. 

Combining easy to learn bodywork, leading exercises, and ground exercises,  TTouch has been a leading method to enhance the quality of life for all animals. 

paragraph separator

UPCOMING EVENT

Essential Oils and Animals Educational Retreat

with Sandy Rakowitz

Dates: Saturday – Sunday August 1 & 2, 2015

Location: Walnut Hill Farm, Charlottesville, VA

Click here for details

You’ll learn many empowering techniques and methods to safely use essential oils with dogs, cats, horses, watch demonstrations, have lots of hands-on experiences  – and there’ll be so much more!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO REGISTER

Early Bird pricing is listed on the info – registration page – and ends July 17th!  

Plus, there’s a SUPER Extra Bonus, Two For One Offer – check it out !

Filed Under: Anxiety, Aromatherapy, Cats, Dogs, Essential Oils, Horses Tagged With: One Heart Healing Center, Sandy Rakowitz, Sandy_Rakowitz, TTouch, Young Living Essential Oils

Comments

  1. Marian Andrews says

    July 9, 2015 at 7:02 pm

    Sandy, I would love to come, but my SSI does not allow for extras like this, even though I know it would help Liz and me. Liz had hard a time with the fireworks and thunderstorms and my migraines make it hard for me to minister to her as I wouldlike to be able to do, although T-Touching helps. Waking up at midnight to find her literally climbing the walls is not easy on either of us. Have a wonderful weekend!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Get Your Complimentary Kit
"Communicate with Your Animals"

Commue-i-cation Kit
Plus, You Get the Popular
"Animal Wisdoms" Weekly Ezine

Just enter your name and email, then click "Yes!"

Recently On Our Blog….

GiveAway and Sale Expansion

Sacred Soul Readings to Discover Your Gifts

Re-Orienting Loss, Trauma, Brain-Injuries

Find A Topics

Connect with Sandy

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Click here to see what else Sandy's clients are saying.

Sandy opened my eyes and heart into viewing "things differently" in our world. Through her, I have learned how to understand my dogs in a way that I never thought possible. I have more understanding, therefore more patience for our most loving companions. It has definitely made me a better person and I believe a better trainer.

Ellen Broomfield
Dog Trainer

The purpose of One Heart Healing Center is to help people and animals learn, to grow, live vibrantly, co-exist more peacefully, with greater compassion and understanding. And, to cultivate the deepening of our connections with ourselves, our animals, each other and spirit for individual, and universal, evolutionary expansion and growth.





Copyright ©2018-2023 · One Heart Healing Center · All Rights Reserved · Privacy Policy
Site Created by The OSP