Our pets can enjoy the holidays too, as long as pet owners consider their four-legged friends’ needs and feelings when planning activities.  Specifically, dogs have routines and habits on which they rely to keep happy and healthy.  Some are very common sense, others you may not have thought about just yet. And it’s always good to look at these things from a canine perspective.

Noise

Let’s first consider the topic of excessive noise, and of what the noise consists. If it is mainly normal talking and laughter, that should be ok, but when lots of people are talking and laughing the decibel often reaches ear splitting levels. If you add babies’ cries, toddler wails, and screams from older children and adults, many times the noise reaches rock band concert heights! (Of course no insult intended here.) At that point even the old hounds whose ear flaps cover their ears find it helpful to hide under an out of hearing distance bed.