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昨天下午看见四条deers横穿马路, 从未有这么离人近过.
来源: 走马读人 于 10-02-04 19:59:12 [档案] [博客] [旧帖] [转至博客] [给我悄悄话]
征兆不可忽视啊!
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----prediction of DC area historical snow.
Because of the unusual weather, deers\' reaction are more dull.
Bad weather can panic animals
Many dog owners recognize the syndrome when there\'s a big storm in the offing — their pets seem to know it\'s coming almost before the meteorologists, and the results can upset both animal and human.
House pets may start panting, run to their owners or hide under a piece of furniture.
It\'s not necessarily a learned behavior, animal experts say. Most animals, but dogs in particular, sense the change in barometric pressure, smell something they don\'t like or notice other slight changes in their environment that human senses miss.
When things like this happen, dogs start getting anxious, said Osvaldo Moscovich, a Tarrytown resident who runs a veterinary clinic on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They salivate, they shake, some of them urinate or defecate. Some do it during the storm, others start doing it hours before. They know something\'s happening.
Cats don\'t seem to be as affected, expert say, or maybe we don\'t notice because the felines can often be found hanging out under the bed anyway.
That wasn\'t the case for Frank and Cathie Anderson, who had a tree fall on their Putnam Valley house Wednesday morning and had to leave their three cats until the utility company said it was safe to be back inside.
They\'re fine now, Frank Anderson said yesterday. But they were running around the house going crazy when it happened. They knew something was wrong.
Another pet, a mixed breed shepherd on Madison Street in Mamaroneck, didn\'t get such good support from its owner. A neighbor called the New Rochelle Humane Society in the middle of the storm to let it know the dog was caught by falling debris after it had broken free from its chain. The owner was not home at the time, agency officials said.
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He was all tangled up. When I got to him, he was scared so he was barking, said Tiffany Monterola, a staff member at the shelter. He was just stuck in the mud. He growled at me some, but I gave him a few minutes and he seemed to calm down.
The dog hadn\'t been picked up by early yesterday afternoon, which surprised shelter manager Dana Rocco, who said the pup\'s plight was basically a case study in what a pet owner shouldn\'t do.
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It points out why you should never put a pet outside unattended, Rocco said. Particularly in bad weather.
Common sense aside, dog training expert Steve Diller said owners often reinforce animals\' fears by acting differently when there\'s a storm.
When pet owners see fear in their own animals, the first response is to try and comfort the fearful animal, said Diller, who\'s been training dogs since 1973 and has written books on the subject. Unfortunately, that reinforces the state that they\'re in. People comfort animals like they would a child, but a child can reason. A dog cannot.
Diller said a dog\'s reinforcement time is less than a second, so what an owner does when there\'s storm noise outside signals to the dog how dangerous things are. The less reaction from the owner, the less need for the dog to be scared.
Diller and Moscovich said in some cases, however, preion medicine is the best way to calm an animal\'s anxiety, at least until the storm has passed.
Xanax is a really good medication for thunder-phobic dogs, Diller said of the anti-anxiety drug. What they used to do is give tranquilizers to dogs, but what you had was a dog stumbling around that was still afraid. You want to do what\'s needed to relieve the dog\'s panic.
来源: 走马读人 于 10-02-04 19:59:12 [档案] [博客] [旧帖] [转至博客] [给我悄悄话]
征兆不可忽视啊!
-----------------------------
----prediction of DC area historical snow.
Because of the unusual weather, deers\' reaction are more dull.
Bad weather can panic animals
Many dog owners recognize the syndrome when there\'s a big storm in the offing — their pets seem to know it\'s coming almost before the meteorologists, and the results can upset both animal and human.
House pets may start panting, run to their owners or hide under a piece of furniture.
It\'s not necessarily a learned behavior, animal experts say. Most animals, but dogs in particular, sense the change in barometric pressure, smell something they don\'t like or notice other slight changes in their environment that human senses miss.
When things like this happen, dogs start getting anxious, said Osvaldo Moscovich, a Tarrytown resident who runs a veterinary clinic on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They salivate, they shake, some of them urinate or defecate. Some do it during the storm, others start doing it hours before. They know something\'s happening.
Cats don\'t seem to be as affected, expert say, or maybe we don\'t notice because the felines can often be found hanging out under the bed anyway.
That wasn\'t the case for Frank and Cathie Anderson, who had a tree fall on their Putnam Valley house Wednesday morning and had to leave their three cats until the utility company said it was safe to be back inside.
They\'re fine now, Frank Anderson said yesterday. But they were running around the house going crazy when it happened. They knew something was wrong.
Another pet, a mixed breed shepherd on Madison Street in Mamaroneck, didn\'t get such good support from its owner. A neighbor called the New Rochelle Humane Society in the middle of the storm to let it know the dog was caught by falling debris after it had broken free from its chain. The owner was not home at the time, agency officials said.
(2 of 2)
He was all tangled up. When I got to him, he was scared so he was barking, said Tiffany Monterola, a staff member at the shelter. He was just stuck in the mud. He growled at me some, but I gave him a few minutes and he seemed to calm down.
The dog hadn\'t been picked up by early yesterday afternoon, which surprised shelter manager Dana Rocco, who said the pup\'s plight was basically a case study in what a pet owner shouldn\'t do.
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It points out why you should never put a pet outside unattended, Rocco said. Particularly in bad weather.
Common sense aside, dog training expert Steve Diller said owners often reinforce animals\' fears by acting differently when there\'s a storm.
When pet owners see fear in their own animals, the first response is to try and comfort the fearful animal, said Diller, who\'s been training dogs since 1973 and has written books on the subject. Unfortunately, that reinforces the state that they\'re in. People comfort animals like they would a child, but a child can reason. A dog cannot.
Diller said a dog\'s reinforcement time is less than a second, so what an owner does when there\'s storm noise outside signals to the dog how dangerous things are. The less reaction from the owner, the less need for the dog to be scared.
Diller and Moscovich said in some cases, however, preion medicine is the best way to calm an animal\'s anxiety, at least until the storm has passed.
Xanax is a really good medication for thunder-phobic dogs, Diller said of the anti-anxiety drug. What they used to do is give tranquilizers to dogs, but what you had was a dog stumbling around that was still afraid. You want to do what\'s needed to relieve the dog\'s panic.
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