My female Golden has always been a nervous dog; she is fine at home and with people she knows, but if we take her on a walk, some things (like stacked bales of hay, etc.) that she is unfamiliar with frighten her, as do people (especially groups) whom she also barks/growls at (she won’t attack, she tries to run away).

We’ve had problems in our house with the fire alarms going off several times (they rewired them incorrectly) and it takes awhile to get the ladder out to turn them off. This terrifies her, and it bothers our male Golden. Both dogs are understandably jumpy at high pitched noise now, but she is getting worse and worse even though they haven’t gone off in a while. She is now terrified of storms (she jumps into our laps trembling when even a mild one come in) and and any noise on TV that even remotely sounds like an alarm perks her right up. She was shaking when I went outside the other day to meet with my neighbors, and we think she’s now afraid of the crickets’s noise, as she is very nervous during the night and wakes up us, hyper, shaking, and whining.

We have recently put her on Clomipramine, and anti-anxiety med, and it seems to help a little bit. Anyone know what else we can do?

If it matters, she is also very attached to dirty socks of mine. If she doesn’t have one, she frantically "takes" us to the laundry room so that she can get one. She is very possesive of them; she will hunch over them if we try to come near hear, although she lets us take them.

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I brought home a balloon and my 2 dogs freaked out, so we hide it in a diffrent room so when we had to go in that room we put it in another room, well that didnt help she wouldnt go near those 2 rooms so i poped the balloon infornt of the dog put it in the garbage and took the garbage outside, that didnt help either…now she is always looking up and stairing at the fire alarm, the lights on the ceiling and the fan in the bedroom, all circles, she hasnt played in 2 days, the other dog i have got over it and is just fine but not my one dog. Please help if you know what to do.

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I need to make an alarm type thing that whenever somebody opens the gate in the front lawn it will go off. It obviously has to be waterproof, heatproof, and coldproof. And DO NOT tell me to buy one! If I had that kind of money I would buy one, and you guys/gals wouldn’t have to read this.
We already have dogs. They bark at other dogs, and that’s about it.

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Need to know what I can use to archive the videos and what is the best brand of cameras I should look for.
Wow, that undress sister????? Not even! I needed to know basic info, I can install myself but I was seeking opinions for my home to monitor the indoors of my home and also my dogs activity when I am not around. Probably to a DVR or HDD depending.

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HOW TO INSTALL A HOME SECURITY SYSTEM

1. GO TO A GOODWILL STORE AND BUY A PAIR OF MEN’S WORK BOOTS SIZE 14-16 (WELL USED).

2. PLACE THEM ON FRONT PORCH, ALONG WITH A COPY OF GUNS AND AMMO MAGAZINE.

3. PUT A FEW GIANT DOG DISHES NEXT TO THE BOOTS AND MAGAZINE.

4. LEAVE A NOTE ON YOUR DOOR THAT READS:
HEY BUBBA,
BIG JIM, DUKE, SLIM, AND I GONE FOR MORE AMMUNITION. WILL BE BACK IN A BIT. DON’T MESS WITH THE PIT BULLS – THEY ATTACKED THE MAILMAN THIS MORNING AND MESSED HIM UP REAL BAD. I DON’T THINK KILLER TOOK PART IN IT, BUT IT WAS HARD TO TELL FROM ALL THE BLOOD. ANYWAY, I LOCKED ALL OF THE DOGS IN THE HOUSE. BETTER JUST WAIT OUTSIDE UNTIL WE CAN GET BACK.

COOTER

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Hi everyone….I HAD dusk/dawn flood lights but decided to swap one of them out for motion sensor type. I bought the one for 180* radius (Brinks) and am about out of my MIND! It either triggers over every little thing or not at all, even if I haven’t changed the sensitivity on it. I have a unique situation that I’m trying to have it bypass the backyard (with the dogs inside that with their constant running around would make the darn thing look like a giant blinking christmas light all night) I need it to monitor the driveway. It seems like it’s not reaching out far enough. Should I get a higher radius or different brand? Or do all of these things work about the same regardless of radius or brand? Thanks.

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I’ve got an X10 system that lets me control my cameras online. I like to check up on my dogs. What would you/do you use yours for?

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i got the little alarms that attach to the door, with the other half of the magnet attaching to the door jam. when i tested it out, it was MUCH louder than i expected. it absolutely scared the crap outta my dogs. i know their hearing is so much more sensitive than ours. My question is: is 105 dbA just too loud for them to handle? obviously they’re not gonna like having to listen to it, but if its not unbearable for them, my safety and peace of mind come first. But if its gonna hurt their ears or something like that i would rather not use it. they were freaked out for about 10 minutes after it went off that first time. so if anyone out their knows enough about dogs’ bodies to answer my question, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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I’m 28 and a stay at home mother of a 5 month old. My husband works 3rd shift (nights) We have an alarm and 2 dogs that bark if the wind blows! But I’m so scared to be alone. It’s not just being scared if someone will break in. I’m scared when it storms or if there would be a fire. I can’t sleep half the nights because I’m worried something will happen. It seems to be getting worse everyday! What can I do to get over this? I know I’m just being paranoid but it’s really getting to me. My husband has been working nights for years but this just started becoming an issue for me since the baby was born and I quit my job.

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I was sitting on the computer looking at some stuffs when all of a sudden the burgular alarm went off and it told me it was my front bedroom window so I immediately called 911 and notified the police about the situation. This is not the first time this has happened because the same thing has happened last week. But when they brought in the K-9 dogs to sniff around the places i said i saw the burglars ran they said they founded no trace of people at all. The Lieutenant officer then said he thinks it’s something wrong with the burglar alarms system and requested me to tested it. How come they think it’s a alarm malfunction when i saw someone ?? Do you they think I’m playing false alarm games ?? I was home alone when that happened and i feel like no one believes me of what i saw. It has happened multiple times this past few weeks and I don’t know what is going on right now.
What could I do to make them believe me there was people trying to break in ??? My stupid digital camera ran out of batteries when I tried to take pictures of the burglars on the outside of my house.

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