 If you can't do that, there are alternatives. Taking them downstairs, turning the radio on. You can also try tuckering them out with exercise or play earlier in the day to cut the anxiety. Or if worse comes to worst, you can hit the road with your pets and get them somewhere quiet. Jill Nadeau, Fox News. That's if your pets like to travel. Yeah. Sometimes they don't and you end up with a messy car, but yeah.