‘Summertime --- and thunder is freaking out our pets …..’
We expected that from our dog Buddy, a Shih Tzu-Pekingese-mix who despises thunder and lives to bark at it --- and that's exactly what he did for about 90 minutes.
He barked non-stop, from the time the thunder was just a faint, far-away noise until it was right over our house, preceded by brilliant lightning capped with a booming noise and buckets of rain.
But what we didn’t expect was to have to search for our indoor cat Cooper for a good half-hour as he had seemingly gone AWOL in our house.
We conducted a thorough search. We looked in all the closets, our pantry, where he’s been known to hide for a while, under the beds, in all of the nooks and crannies of our basement, in our garage --- and he was nowhere to be found.
For a few minutes, we thought that the little guy might have somehow escaped outside, but thankfully that didn’t happen.
Then, just as the storm was winding down at about 10:40 p.m., my wife spotted Cooper coming out of our enclosed porch, where we had previously looked. He evidently was hiding under one of the pieces of furniture on the porch, and we had somehow missed him.
We were relieved to find that Cooper had just been hiding, and hadn’t got out of the house, but he gave us quite the scare.
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