[greekbeast]

My boyfriend and I were discussing this today, since its been raining pretty decently here in our area the past few days and we even had TERRIBLE storm about 3 days ago (involved a few funnel clouds and some severe lightning) and the fact that our area (Virginia Beach) is prone to hurricanes and whatnot.

What do you guys do during severe storms, tornados, hurricanes, etc when puppy needs to go potty? =(

[jisee]

Throw them outside

I mean, they have to go at some point. I guess if the weather is THAT bad, you could get the puppy pads and let them go in the garage.. but I've never had an issue with just tossing them out there. They run and pee and run straight back in.

Even during Isabel, when I lived at home with our two Labs, we waited til the winds calmed a bit and let them run outside and potty. Never had an issue.

[prpaims]

Our's do the same thing. We tell them to go out, they go out, pee/poop and haul ass back inside. All of our dogs typically like to walk around the yard, smell this...smell that...pee here....lay here...but when it's raining. Forget it. It's the fastest potty break ever.

Something I think is important to talk about besides the potty breaks (yes I agree those are important too) is what happens during a storm and you have to take cover? What if you're crating and rotating dogs...dogs that don't get along?

For us, our "safe room" is our closet. It's practically in the middle of the house. Farthest away from windows and surrounded by as many walls as possible. We would crate two of our three dogs (possibly all three) and crate the cats as well.

We live in Florida so this is something that is very important for us to think about. Also, if we had to evacuate all three (large dog) crates would fit into the back of our truck. We have our important documents (ours as well as the animals) available, so we can quickly grab them on our way out.

[spamkillerj]

Haha I agree with the other posters, she goes out and goes potty. If it's really really bad I may try to wait until it lets up a little bit but if she has to go, she has to go. She hasn't melted yet from the rain so I think she's fine

[jisee]

She hasn't melted yet from the rain so I think she's fine

My dogs would like me to believe they'll melt in the rain.. the look on their faces when I tell them to go out and potty in it is priceless. It's like I'm asking them to go leap off a building

[malishka1025]

Mine hold it If they have to go that bad then it's a mad race off the porch to pee and then back up to the door in a flash. Otherwise I will make them go out before bedtime and if they don't have to go, and it's raining, they will stand on the porch and not move. We've had some severe weather this spring too. I don't have to crate and rotate with only 2 inside dogs, plus they get along well with our other two outside dogs. But it's quite entertaining during the tornado warnings because we do head to the basement, our house is full of windows. Our girl is too afraid to walk down the steps herself so I find myself creeping down the steps with a 70# AmBully over my shoulders, a 5# lapdog around my ankles, and two yowling cats.

We actually had quite a storm last night, and all the animals weren't happy unless they were in bed with us. The only way Sammy Jo (AmBully) would sleep is crammed between the hubby and I, she finally stopped shaking once she got to sleep between us. She is not a fan of storms, at all.

[occurrini]

We are prone to pretty bad tornados here. And we recently went through the big flood. Usually we know if a storm atleast a bad one is coming. I mean our stations go to all weather all afternoon, morning, evening whatever, that is how prone to tornados we are. When storms are coming, they are on it.

If it looks like its about to storm or we get a report of severe weather in the area, we go ahead and take Sasha on out before it starts. The way it storms here usually there are some breaks, atleast long enough to let the dog out.

Now during the flood, even though our place didn't flood, the back where the dogs would go pee is a hill and it got very slick and at the bottom of it was a bunch of water. It rained non stop here for 2 days. Well it started Friday night and it was done Monday morning, this was the big Nashville Flood from back in May. Sasha and Trouble always have refused to go poop in the rain. They will go out and pee but they won't poop. I don't think either dog pooped for over 48 hours. They just wouldn't poop in the rain. Wow I still can't believe that 17 days after the flood started, my Trouble went to the bridge. I've never seen anything happen here like that flood, I never would have expected it. We have always known that it could happen because Nashville is along the Cumberland and if it weren't for a dam systems they would have flooded many times, but there was just so much water. I'm on 24 but I never expected to see anything like the Great Nashville Flood and I lived through the tornado outbreak of 1998 and again through the one in April 2006. So I have seen a lot of bad weather but nothing like the Nashville Flood

I took this from my back porch on April 7, 2010. I was actually supposed to be up at the college for class when this hit. And the college was torn apart. But thankfully class was actually cancelled due to the instructor having to be out that day.




Bear with me here what I am getting to is pretty amazing
The two neighborhoods next to mine, completely destroyed. 7 people died in those neighborhoods. I was stupid to be out there taking pictures and this photo still haunts me to this day. I basically had just gotten home and was chatting on the phone with my grandma and my step dad was rushing to get my sister from school. This hit around 3 pm. I lost communication with him he was running into the building because the tornado was coming over the hill and he told me to take cover. I put the dog in her crate and put her in the closet. And I grabbed my camera as i saw it come through the trees and I took 3 photos, this was the best one. Once I realized how close it was I took cover myself because I realized it could turn at any point and come right at us. After it was over, I went outside. I couldn't reach my stepdad, or my mom. I was able to reach my grandma and she said it went right over her house. But they were fine, just had a few trees down and the shingles were off. My mom was downtown that day and I finally reached her and she was so happy to hear that I was okay and that my dad did make it to the school. It took him 3 hours to get back home. And the school was 5 minutes away. My one uncle was working on a house in the new neighborhood they were building next to mine. When it came through he got in a crawlspace until it was over. Then he rushed over to my house, my neighbor actually ran over to my place to check on me first. Then my uncle got there and it wasn't long until my other uncle pulled up in our driveway. He couldn't get across town but when he saw the school damaged that I went to and the neighborhoods destroyed he managed to make his way back to where I lived and check on me. He told me everything he saw and asked if I wanted him to take me to my grandparents and I said no I need to wait here because if my dad got back and I wasn't here he would freak out. My mom headed out 30 minutes after talking to me after the tornado hit. What is a normally 45 minute drive took her 5 and a half hours to get home. That was the longest day of my life but thank God no one was hurt. My sisters best friend lived in the neighborhood that got hit the worst. Her dad had picked her up and her sister and brother and were headed home when they stopped on the hill and litterally watched the tornado tear up their neighborhood and home.

Here is the big part. Dad rushed home on foot telling the kids to go into the apartment clubhouse they stopped at. He got to the the house and it was pretty much destroyed, his wife and dog inside. He made his way down to the basement and found Tammy and the dog in the dog crate. It had been flipped and tossed and things had fallen around it and such. Tammy says she grabbed the dog and ran downstairs she felt the house collapsing around her and all she had time to do was crawl into that dog crate with the dog. She says that Dog Crate Saved Both of their lives.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Na...rnado_outbreak


http://www.tennessean.com/section/NEWS0101

Anyways My point is We have a lot of Tornados and bad weather here in Tennessee. So we are just super careful, we keep an eye to the sky, we listen to the reports and we get Sasha out the door to potty whenever there is a break in the weather.

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Sorry I didn't mean to hijack your thread there.

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Moved out of state after those tornados. I can't believe I moved back, even temporarily. Hope to move again soon. But TN has always been home so we shall see.

[myhackingtosh_ws]

I work outside so I always keep track of the weather, even on my days off. It's just a habit now so I always know when a storm is coming. I just make sure the dog goes to the bathroom before it hits.

[HakTaisanip]

My boyfriend and I were discussing this today, since its been raining pretty decently here in our area the past few days and we even had TERRIBLE storm about 3 days ago (involved a few funnel clouds and some severe lightning) and the fact that our area (Virginia Beach) is prone to hurricanes and whatnot.

What do you guys do during severe storms, tornados, hurricanes, etc when puppy needs to go potty? =(

She doesn't like rain so she holds it. If she really has to go I can take her out the front door and let her through the gate to the yard. there is a huge pine tree and the branches make a pretty good umbrella for her, has to be a hell of a storm for it to get wet under there.

My cousin filled one of those plastic kiddie pools with dirt and basically made a big litter box for the dog out in the garage and trained hers to use that.