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My American Staffordshire Terrier was really the same way and it's funny you say that. The 4th of July and thunderstorms he would run to the closet. If I know they're coming The Sounds it's not a problem. What I am in the know so to speak and expect them to come it doesn't bother me it's just what I'm totally relaxed in a state of Harmony and something upsets that balance very suddenly my heart rate skyrockets and my anxiety level shoots to the moon for just a few seconds.I see by your avatar that you are a bulldog. I am a shiatzu and have the same problem. lots of dogs have this problem. July 4th is hell on me. I have to take medication to keep from having a heart attack.
I'm not on any BP meds. My blood pressure is right on the money the same time I go in right around 128 over 78 or 120 over 80 somewhere right in there. It's right on the money every single time you could buy stock in it.Had the same thing happen to me. High anxiety, sensitive to loud noises and high B/P.
It was one of the B/P meds I was on. Stopped that med and the issues went away. If your on any meds look up the side affects.
It sounds rational. In my youth though I never got this kind of anxiety response out of it though. It's just been in the last handful of years when it catches me off guard it elicits that responseIsn't that just called adrenaline? I would think spontaneous loud noises would yield your listed symptoms in any animal
Happens to me as well. It used to be especially bad shortly after a coworker ND'd next to my face. I remember a track light popped and I went straight to 100.It sounds rational. In my youth though I never got this kind of anxiety response out of it though. It's just been in the last handful of years when it catches me off guard it elicits that response
Sounds dead on to my situation. I remember my wife would see something I did wrong and was in the shower just relaxing trying to take a peaceful shower and she rages in and I didn't hear she ripped open the shower curtain and screaming in my face " did you do this? ". I swear I was going to drop dead in my tracks from a heart attack. She actually saw the expression on my face and wasn't mad anymore. She ended up laughing and apologized to me. You got no where to go and nothing you can do but absorb the anxiety hit. It's awful!Happens to me as well. It used to be especially bad shortly after a coworker ND'd next to my face. I remember a track light popped and I went straight to 100.
Either way, sounds like your fight or flight engaging and since you realize there's nothing to do either from you're just stuck sitting there, adrenaline pumping. Or maybe I'm full of ****, I don't know. I'm not a psychologist
my dog can sense bad weather coming way before I do. He will come find me and stay close by me and I then go look outside and it will be raining or any inclement weather. If it thunders he's a panting shaking mess until he gets some medication to calm him down.My American Staffordshire Terrier was really the same way and it's funny you say that. The 4th of July and thunderstorms he would run to the closet. If I know they're coming The Sounds it's not a problem. What I am in the know so to speak and expect them to come it doesn't bother me it's just what I'm totally relaxed in a state of Harmony and something upsets that balance very suddenly my heart rate skyrockets and my anxiety level shoots to the moon for just a few seconds.
Same thing for the Staffing my screen pic. He was so sweet. I felt so bad for him. Poor thing. He could hear thunder long before we could hear it.my dog can sense bad weather coming way before I do. He will come find me and stay close by me and I then go look outside and it will be raining or any inclement weather. If it thunders he's a panting shaking mess until he gets some medication to calm him down.