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(Okoboji)-Pet Owners are urged to take precautions during the holiday weekend, KUOO's Becky Thoreson has details:

Pet Owners encouraged to take Precautions during 4th of July Weekend

Pet Experts are urging owners to take extra care with pets during the 4th of July holiday weekend.

Kristi Henning, Director of the Emmet County Animal Shelter says it's best to take preventative measures. "You can prevent some fear anxiety in pets from something as turning up the radio or the TV really, really loud to try to drown out the sound of the fireworks. You can do a thunder shirt, if you have one. A lot of times that snug feeling of that thunder shirt gives them comfort. If you don't have one , you can pop on Pinterest, and they'll actually show you how to make one out of an old tee shirt or a wide ace bandage. It's pretty simple, it's basically just making something snug on them so they feel safe. Another alternative is to contact your vet, and ask them what sort of medicine you could give them as a preventative to an anxiety reaction."

She notes that it's important to secure your pet, and have identification. "Definitely make sure they're secured, that's important. Also, some kind of ID. If you don't have a tag on your pet and you don't have time to get one, even just taking a piece of duct tape and write your name and phone number on it, and then wrap that around their collar so taht they have something on them. Long term though, getting appropriate tags helps all the times of the year and microchips can never get lost."

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