09-11-2013 6:54 PM
I am well and truly pee'd off with fireworks going off yet again, terrifying my little dogs! This is the 8th night in a row we have had to put up with it and these ones are very near to the house. Wasn't there supposed to be a crackdown on letting fireworks off like this, or is it just another law that has no clout?
09-11-2013 6:58 PM
Thought that we had it bad here but we've just had another thunderstorm so that may be putting them off round here.
09-11-2013 7:00 PM
Let's hope we get one. I hate to see the dogs like this; tried giving them tablets to calm them on the run up to bonfire night but nothing seems to work. Mind you, some of the fireworks are that loud I jump out of my skin.
09-11-2013 7:16 PM
We've got them here too, only from one direction I think, but just one firework is enough to send her scuttling for the rest of the evening. Thunder would be no better as she's frightened of that too.
09-11-2013 7:24 PM
Yes, same here. Sick & tired of them. Damson is a wreck!
09-11-2013 7:30 PM
They sound as though they're right next door tonight. I just said to hubby, I wonder if they go on for long enough, she'll get used to them? but I don't think she would. She's still frightened of the vacuum cleaner and the food mixer and the knife sharpener and she has been all her life. She's ok with the hair dryer though!
09-11-2013 7:45 PM
Me too, totally peed off with them. One of my little cats has spent most of the
last week and a half hiding in the wardrobe as he's terrified of the fireworks.
I have totally had enough of the whole attitude of people, the inconsiderateness,
having no thought whatsoever for anybody but themselves - this is evident in
the whole fireworks thing too. They bear no consideration for neighbours,
pets, animals in general, the proximity to other people, they just go out and
get the noisiest fireworks possible, presumably to impress somebody in their
sad world. No doubt they go in their 4x4's to get them too. I guess they have
to compensate somehow for what they lack in other departments!
It is perfectly possible to have a home display of fireworks that make very little
noise and are very pretty. We did, on firework night.
I wish they'd just ban them outright and only allow displays.
09-11-2013 7:54 PM
Firework The law
You must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am. The exceptions are:
09-11-2013 8:04 PM
They should add to that fireworks should not be set off except
on Firework Night and the Saturday closest to Firework Night.
Mind you, how they would police it, if they could be bothered?
So it continues, day in, day out, for at least a couple of weeks
either side of Firework night, despite so many people being
sick to death of it.
09-11-2013 8:28 PM
Damson is so distressed I could cry. They have been going off since six thirty.
09-11-2013 9:18 PM
My old dog has just come out from under the desk in the office, we had fireworks start going off at 5 yes 5 and they seem to have just finished, Who I ask myself has been watching them it has been teaming down since 4. Really hard rain you couldn't stand outside in it and look up waste of time and money. They obviously don't have pets or else they don't care, my old dog has been a nervous reck since before last weekend and it's been like it every night. Nope spoke too soon off they go again dogs just disapeared into the office again, poor old thing, Luckily the young one is of working gundog stock so she doesn't care.
09-11-2013 9:37 PM
At least we can keep our dogs and cats safely indoors; must be frightening for the wild animals. Goodness knows where these "people" find the money for the fireworks. ( I use the term "people" very loosely, not allowed to put their real title on here!)
09-11-2013 9:38 PM
My youngest dog is frightened when I get hiccups, CG. Thankfully, I don't get them often.
09-11-2013 10:23 PM
My dog is frightened (this is like who's got the scardiest dog!!!) my dog is frightened of the word BUZZ. I very rareley use it, in fact I don't even need to use it, just telling her ' I'll say the word ' and she slinks off. It's handy when people come to the door, Tesco delivery man or visitors. I can tell her to go away but she doesn't until I say 'I'll say the word!' and she goes right away to the bedrooms. It's sad really that she's so scared of everyday sounds. I blame the fact that she was taken from her mother at four weeks and kept in the cupboard under the stairs until we heard about it from someone who bought her sister (at four weeks old) We didn't hear about her for a week, so we got her at five weeks old.
09-11-2013 10:45 PM
Fieworks still going off here, aaaaarrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh.
09-11-2013 10:50 PM
09-11-2013 10:59 PM - edited 09-11-2013 11:01 PM
I have one of those too. She was frightened by the bangs on there too. She was like it when I first got her at two years old & is still like it at seven. The only way she is not going to be freaked out is if she goes deaf.
09-11-2013 11:08 PM
Aww, bless her, CG; she's adorable.
09-11-2013 11:21 PM
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