Fireworks And Loud Noises

[Kallasia]

Hi all. With bonfire night fast approaching, lots of fireworks are being set off.

Even with the windows closed my piggies can hear them and keep running for cover

What advice does everyone have for keeping piggies calm and happy?

 

[Cavy Lover]

Luckily I'm living in the countryside and don't get fireworks near us

 

[jayne]

I'm in countryside , but you can still here the stupid fireworks !

I give plenty of hay for them to chew up and have them with me so I'm not far from them

 

[sport_billy]

Put on the television or radio to try and help make the loud bangs less intrusive as there is then background noise going on would be my suggestion to try and help

 

[piggieminder]

As Sport Billy says I put on background music and talk to them. Although we get so many loud bangs here mine are quite used to it now and don't take much notice. Fireworks started here at beginning of September!

 

[Katiedid]

We have the TV on - also ours are pretty used to noise. We slowly integrated them into the living room over about a year (they ended up in there by default because we had a flood and 12 months later the dining room still isn't sorted so we still have them in the living room and the are relatively bomb proof. For future reference you can get desensitisation CDs for dogs, I wonder if they would work for piggies (that may be a stupid idea).

 

[Kallasia]

We have the TV on - also ours are pretty used to noise. We slowly integrated them into the living room over about a year (they ended up in there by default because we had a flood and 12 months later the dining room still isn't sorted so we still have them in the living room and the are relatively bomb proof. For future reference you can get desensitisation CDs for dogs, I wonder if they would work for piggies (that may be a stupid idea).

I've never heard of these cds before, how do they work?

 

[Katiedid]

for dogs you start about a month before and you play them on a low volume slowly getting louder each time you play it so you desensitise. Now this may be a very stupid idea for a prey animal - I don't know hopefully someone sensible can step in and say - but it works for many dogs.

 

[Hoppity.K]

for dogs you start about a month before and you play them on a low volume slowly getting louder each time you play it so you desensitise. Now this may be a very stupid idea for a prey animal - I don't know hopefully someone sensible can step in and say - but it works for many dogs.

I've no idea if it'll work but it doesn't sound stupid at all to me. My late Pedro was deaf and happily oblivious to any noises, but I think it sounds like a good idea. x