I used to get Xanax for my oldest labrador when he was still around, and I was never really sure if they helped hiom or not - he hated loud noises all his life. Unfortunately he also infected Isla with his fear, although, sensitive little flower that she is, she may have been scared in her own right.
The fireworks started round us on friday - I thought that Isla was going to be ok, but just as I was on my way upstairs a firework sizzled and banged more or less outside our front door, reducing her to a quivering lump of jelly, and she wouldn't settle down after that, so I spent the night with one large Belgian Shepherd hogging most of a double bed. I may have made a rod for my own back, but I'd rather that she wasn't scared sh*tless and I have a disturbed night - and she snores worse than my OH!