Quote Originally Posted by spazzdog View Post
IKEA curtains will solve the "covering the windows" issue. They are extra long and relatively inexpensive.

As for the barking or fear of thunder, I've used Dr. Bach's Rescue Remedy to calm my dog(s) due to thunder or fireworks (and the ocassional gunfire, depending on where I lived). I find it at Whole Foods, though I'm sure you could find it at any other health food kind of grocery.

For barking I fill a sterile bone or kong with peanut butter and drip some Rescue Remedy in on the PB. They enjoy the yummy and the RR chills them out. You can also drip it into the water bowl or just put some drops on their tongue - be careful with this one because the eyedropper is on of the old fashioned glass kind.

We tried the Ikea ones- not long enough. Our complex is from the 60s and what is now our front room was originally a Florida Room(so screened in).

Our landlord is going to "frost" the bottom portion of the windows b/c he doesn't want to pay to put back in the french doors that are supposed to close off access to the room.

Bones and kongs are great ideas- but this occurs when we aren't home, so we have no way to pacify them. If they start to bark while we are home, one word to them and they stop! (they are good guys- just puppies 7 & 8 months)