Fireworks Again!

[Tilly2]

My German Shepherd keeps wanting to go outside to see what all the noise is about. I let her out and she lies on the patio watching them and occasionally barks at the really loud ones. I am so lucky that neither she, nor Tilly are trying to climb the walls.

Those of you with animals who are frightened must be having a terrible time as the firework season seems to be much longer this year.

Will it never end?

[marje]

Loads of fireworks going off around here too, more it seems than on the night.

[Brinjal]

We have had Diwali and now Guy Fawkes so has been rather noisy. My doggy just hides behind the couch but doesn't get too upset.

[pastafreak]

Thank goodness the bangs seem to have stopped here. We've had a good ten days of it...and poor Sally has been my shadow-panting and shivering. She won't go out,and doesn't eat.

[lankeela]

The distance is immaterial unless its miles away. Their hearing is so much better than ours, and if they are affected they will hear them. I asked in Sainsbury's today why they were still selling them when Bonfire Night was 5th November, and they told me it was company policy to keep them on display until a certain date. I told them to stick their company policy where the sun don't shine. Wish they would ban them from being let off other than 5th November and then only at organised displays.

[Zacs-Master]

It's cost us £60 for Zac to go to kennels to keep him out of the way and then, walking him last night, they were still going off. Grrrrrrr. Nice original story Tilly.

[tonyav]

There losing fireworks off again here !.

[shoota]

I've got them as well T, dog's behind the chair...

[shoota]

Surely Diwali has finished by now?

[tonyav]

Not good is it shoota, I'm glad our dog is still a bit groggy from the anaesthetic shes had earlier this week.

[shoota]

Mine won't go out to pee anymore - we've already had one puddle.

[tonyav]

Shame that your dog is so scared, shoota.

[Zacs-Master]

Shoota, Zac was so traumatised one year it took 6 months for him to be confident of going out for a walk again. We are lucky in that his regular kennels is in the middle of nowhere, so he goes there.

[shoota]

I took her out for a walk earlier in the week when I thought it had died down for the night and some Salads Chef let off one of those scream/bang rockets from the other side of the fence about 10 yds away.
She was petrified.

[shoota]

Salads chef was actualy 't055er'

[pastafreak]

Mine will go out to pee...and drag me straight back in. If I get her as far as the park,she just wants to come back straight away.

[boxtops]

There were fireworks here yesterday, but none at all tonight - No1Son spent the evening hiding under the stairs. He's OK now.

[Tilly2]

Can we do something about it. Start a petition or something?

I speak to the manager in Sainsburys every year, complaining about their sales of fireworks in what is essentially a food shop. It has no effect.

[shoota]

I live in an area where there are a lot of Diwali celebrators - this is the 10th day straight.
I thought it was a 5 day festival....

[tonyav]

Yilly, It's no good speaking to the manager, it's just a branch and he has to sell whatever he is told to sell.

[woofgang]

yup. We have had them here every single night since the 30th October. Melatonin has helped considerably, my dogs don't go into blind panic at the first one and stay in blind panic until approx an hour after the last one.
Tilly, latest research is that offering calm comfort is the best course of action and does't reinforce fear. Lankeela the shops buy insurance for the whole of the legal sale period which ends today. Happily (heavy sarcasm) there is a shop near me that holds an all year round licence. Yes I know that the fireworks are the display type and expensive but that doesn't seem to stop people having them for their private parties when they feel like it. You can also, of course, buy online.
a local lady here was riding her horse in the daytime and some lovely people threw a lit firework out of the car window at the horse. Horse bolted but luckily no one hurt. Time to ban them except for organised displays I think.