Dog tips #2
Unless your dog has been trained from puppy age to loud noises, firearm shots, blasts and explosions...
...do not take your dog to watch fireworks.
Dikson was barely containable tonight (French National Day) when the big fireworks started, he went in complete panic mode. I thought I was losing him and that gave me the fright of my life - or the second, first one being when he ran off down 3 blocks in Paris. He tried to turn against me a couple times I was trying to hold his harness: he pushed me with his paws, caught my hand in his jaws. But thankfully, and I have no idea if it's due to luck or not, akitas are faithful and loyal creatures. Dikson never bit me, ever. I kept talking to him, so he could hear my voice and feel that I wasn't scared (anymore ;P) so he could feel reassured. And I think that the faith I have in him saved him tonight, since someone else would have pussied out and let him run off.
So that's the lesson I learned and even though it was 20 minutes of hell, I'm glad we went through this experience.