A small 2-year-old covers his dog’s ears, scared by fireworks, during the Chinese New Year celebrations in Gao’an, in China’s Jiangxi province. This tender gesture has moved users of social networks and has traveled many phones to go viral.
It is a show of empathy of the little girl when, seeing that her dog is suffering from the noise of the fireworks, don’t hesitate to cover his ears so you don’t have a bad time.
In addition, he touches and caresses his head, while the dog remains crouched at his side.
Heartwarming moment during Chinese New Year celebration:
The little girl covers her pet’s ears to avoid the scare of fireworks. pic.twitter.com/wYxO7YAO4C— Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 (@tongbingxue) February 2, 2022
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Dogs have a more acute sense of hearing than humans and, therefore, have a much higher sensitivity to noise. Thus, loud noises such as fireworks can cause fear and uneasiness.
To imagine the suffering of a dog when it hears a firecracker, we must bear in mind that the noise it hears is joined by the unknown factor, that is, not knowing what causes that deafening noise, to better calibrate what their phobia may consist of: “When an animal hears a firecracker or thunder, it does not know what is happening. He sees it as a threat and that generates more stress and anxiety & rdquor ;, he explains Martha Amatresponsible for Clinical Ethology Service of the Clinical Veterinary Hospital of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
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“The lack of control and predictability, not knowing when the noise of the firecracker will appear or how long it will last is the key point of the problem for the dog, much more than the intensity of the noise& rdquor ;, specifies the veterinarian.
In fact, “the most common phobias in dogs, and also in cats, they are caused by the noise of firecrackers and storms & rdquor ;, ditch Amat.