Sabrina a, a lovely Golden Retriever dog, had her first negative experience with loud noises when she was a five-week-old puppy. They were setting off fireworks at a party somewhere in the neighborhood and poor little Sabrina didn’t know what was going on.

After that, he found his new home in Germany, where they ring in the New Year with fireworks. This happened a few times when the puppy was playing in the yard.

He freaked out on New Year’s Eve with all the noise and banging that filled the air.

As a consequence of this, Sabrina began to tremble whenever she heard a loud bang.

The house where Sabrina lives is next to a very small junkyard where they process metal, creating a lot of sudden noises. Sabrina was surrounded by this terrible noise several times a day when she was in the yard. She grew more and more scared and nervous. Of course, the noise coincided with any type of weather, so he associated the painful noise with rain and wind.

So poor Sabrina was now scared not only because of the noise but also because of the bad weather. Every time she started to rain she would go into the house, she would run up the stairs and hide in the bedroom where she would stay for hours.

If a knife fell on the floor when he was in the kitchen, he would run upstairs and hide…

Life became very difficult for their owners because of this. They couldn’t take her beyond the local soccer field because she panicked when people started cheering for the teams. Taking her to gun dog training was completely out of the question because she couldn’t stand the sound of the training gun. Thunderstorms turned into major emergencies in your home because of your dog’s panic.

In short, their owners were very upset. Not only that, but they became very frustrated as their dog’s behavior restricted their actions in many ways. Feeling powerless and filled with despair, they just didn’t know what to do.

In the end Sabrina was treated with the Neuro Modulation Technique – The Feinberg Method. Eight sessions were needed to neutralize her fear and her subsequent flight behavior.

On top of that, his owners were no longer allowing him to run away from the noisy situation, which in itself had made things much worse.

For the simple fact that he had always run away, he was never able to experience the fact that some of the noise was unpleasant but not really dangerous. While loud bangs and metal noise can damage a dog’s ears because they’re so much more sensitive to sound than ours, the sound of wind and rain itself can be harmless.

Here is the advice regarding loud noises:

• loud noise can be very painful and damage your dog’s hearing by destroying the hearing cells
• protect your dog from loud explosions such as firecrackers whenever possible
• don’t leave him home alone on celebration night when people will use fireworks

If your dog has started a phobic reaction to noises

• don’t let him run away from the situation but keep him close to you
• do not close it anywhere on its own as this will increase its horror
• try tapping to calm him down
• consider some form of energy psychology therapy or behavioral treatment before things get out of hand
• never punish your dog for being afraid

Sabrina is now free of her fear of noises. She still doesn’t like thunderstorms or gunshots. When the fireworks go off, she lies down near her owner to comfort herself a little.

She stays in the kitchen no matter the noise situation and walking past the soccer field is no longer a problem.

Well done little Sabrina!