anxiety problem

Hi to all members,

We have a wonderful staffy Tilly who is 3 years old. Marvellous, well trained, behaviour superb- due to a lot of love and training.... however during the past few months when we walk her and we live in the country with fields tend to have the crow scarers, the bangs that go off intermittenlty. even at a distance these are really freaking her out, wont run about , sticks to my heels, panting with anxiety, its now getting to the point that I have to coax her out of the house. She has lost all her exuberance about 'walkies'.

Any suggestions, have tried the 'thunder coat' that is supposed to help but no improvement at all.

Thats a tricky one, have you tried distraction methods? I know how many problems fireworks cause for dogs so having that as a constant must be terrible. We have them where we walk and Moo doesn't care so I'm not going to be much help!

I'm moving your topic into behavior it will get more advise,

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