Today’s PetMeds Spotlight is on anxiety in pets, especially related to sound. Sound Anxiety can sometimes be confused with a 6th sense, because animals will react to weather before we know it’s coming.

The truth is that they have heightened hearing and other senses that contribute to knowing a weather pattern is coming before we do.  Changes in barometric pressure, thunder and lightening are all things we don’t notice until they are close, but with pets, they see and feel these things before we do.