In the past few days my 9 year old Shepherd-mix has been refusing to sleep in my bedroom at night. She has always slept in my bed with me since she outgrew her kennel as a puppy. But as of late she wants nothing to do with my room. If i help her onto my bed she'll go into this alert posture, If i try talking to her or petting her start trembling like a leaf. If i try letting her be, she'll jump on me before jumping off the bed and hunkering down in the corner of the room where the door is. If the door is open, she'll make a b-line other to my parents room or back upstairs to the living room.
I do know how this behavior started, a lot of people have been setting off fireworks in the surrounding areas because of covid-19 and as most dogs, they don't like fireworks. And she would behave this way when there where fireworks. But there hasn't been relatively quite for the past 2 weeks and she only started doing these past few days almost like she's expecting them to happen. I have done things to try to drown out the fireworks such as playing white noises (i play this all year round because sometimes my brother is loud at night), i tried cuddling her (i done this in the past and it worked but isn't now) and let her hide somewhere in the the house then bring her down when the fireworks are done (like at midnight)
Has anybody else experienced this issue with their dogs and is there a way to make her feel safe in my room again. Or do i have to get use to sleeping without her. I haven't sleep well since this all started and miss having her sleep next to me, I miss having our morning cuddle sessions when waking up. I miss her little kisses on my nose and i admit i miss consistently trying to hog the bed all to herself.
Oh and I have tried giving her treats, but she just eats them and high tails it off the bed and out the door.
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