I think this is absolutely hilarious and am seriously considering getting one. I have two that are awful during storms. One just pure panics, pants, can’t sit still. Sometimes I wish she would go and hide. I work at home and it is impossible to work when she’s like this. I have found a way to cheat though. I stick her inside my shirt and she holds her had out the collar. She stil panics but knows she is close and I have my hands free to work. She is also deathly afraid of guns and fire crackers. Several of her siblings are like this too. Thier owners are my friends and come to me all the time with this complaint. By golly I have an answer now. What does it appear to be made of? I’m wondering if it has something to do with the static in the air during storms, and this stops that.

It’s possible that your reactions were actually affecting him a lot more than you knew, especially if you were petting him and trying to calm him down. Once you got the coat and believed it would help him stay calm, he actually responded to your body’s chemical changes–since you were no longer afraid (in your mind, concerned about his reactions), he didn’t need to be afraid, either. It’s also possible that there wasn’t as much ozone in the air during your recent storm. You may still need to use the coat, especially if you get a real thunder boomer right overhead–the kind that makes the whole house shake.