[Dailydrool] New Hound item -anxiety relief

[Swartz]

Hello droolers.  I just wanted to let all of you know of a new item for the hounds that I came across at our dog wash the other day. 
Its called the Happy Hoodie. The Happy Hoodie is a soft, expandable, lightweight, safe, comfortable band that is placed over a pet's ears to provide relief and protection from the loud noise and high-pressured air associated with force drying and other noises like fireworks, storms vacuum cleaners etc.  It reminds me of a large sweat band; like I use to wear on my wrist when I played basketball many moons ago.
Anyhowl...It works pretty well.  The owner of the pet wash says that it works great on dogs that hate the dryer, and he has even had feed back from owners using it for anxiety caused by car rides, storms and fireworks. Dogs that normally stressed out over these events, but with the hoodie on most would lay down and go sleep or just walk around the house as if there was nothing to be stressed about...normal day.  My personal experience is that Ruger hates the blow dryer. So we tried it on him while drying him and he dang near fell asleep standing up while I was drying him out.  No stress, no tongue dangling, no bulging freaked out eyeballs, no tense body, no trying to escape nothing except sleepy eyeballs.  And Colt...well he was snoring while he was wearing it and being blow dryed.  So I bought one...and Ruger will be wearing it anytime he gets blow dryed or any other time that he seems a little nervous which is mostly with any load obnoxios noises like blow dryers, the vacuum or smoke detectors.  

For those dogs that are afraid of Thunderstorms and or fireworks I think this will help...If not on its own then maybe in conjunction with a thundershirt.  Hey I am all about a drug free hound...I just wish this and the thundershirts were around when I had Shadow ATB and Wolfgang ATB who were so scared ot storms and fireworks that they literally tried to climb up on top of my head.  I hated to drug them, but I was afraid that they would stroke out or have a heart attack if I didn't.

Here is the website if you want to check it out. http://www.happyhoodie.com/index.html


Michele Momma to the Bad Ass Basset Brothers
Colt "I'm a mellow hound"
Ruger "I'm a little bit more high strung"
Women are Angels...And when someone breaks their wings..They simply continue to fly....on a broomstick...They are flexible like that...
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