Sorry if
a) your house is covered in poo
b) you are frightened to take your pets out
c) you and your dogs can't relax
Sorry if
a) you bought a dog sometime in the last couple of hundred years since fireworks became a regular occurrence in Britain.
Just went to some Indian friends for Diwali celebration. They pulled out the fireworks. They were LOUD.
If it were just one night, or just over the weekend it would be easier to manage. However it happens so..
We have had fireworks five or six night in the past fortnight, including in the past hour.
Luckily our dog is a bit meh about the whole thing.
Thanks for caring
I don't understand OP. What's rattled you chain?
Sorry if
d) local scroaty ****ers love spending their coke weed and general roadmen dealz on them.
All those gentleman farmers complain how the fireworks upset their stock, then don tweeds at the weekend to blast pheasants out of the sky, shooting over the heads of livestock…
Only an hour? You are obviously not local to North Eton. It’s been a couple of hours here. Our puppy is unphased. But then he is a gun dog after all.
Bizarrely, I've heard no fireworks this year.
All those gentleman farmers complain how the fireworks upset their stock, then don tweeds at the weekend to blast pheasants out of the sky, shooting over the heads of livestock…
The farmers I know round here generally spend every weekend farming.
You want some guinea pigs. Ours are completely unphased by fireworks. It'd also be great if all the dog owners who moan about everyone not having any fun because their dog is scared of fireworks could also remember that a lot of people are uncomfortable around dogs and would rather they were on a lead in public places, but that'll never happen eh?
Spend New year's in the Netherlands, it's like a warzone
**** me, some right belters in here. Me included.
Sorry if
a) you bought a dog sometime in the last couple of hundred years since fireworks became a regular occurrence in Britain.
Whilst I'd like to see more restrictions on fireworks availability, I tend to this view. I've also noticed that the most stressed owners seem to have the most stressed dogs, which makes me wonder if it's chicken or egg
A gentleman farmer doesn't actually do any farming.
Not even of gentlemen?
Spend New year’s in the Netherlands, it’s like a warzone
celebrated millenium new year in amsterdam - am still traumatised
Whilst I’d like to see more restrictions on fireworks availability
And dogs. 😁
Bizarrely, I’ve heard no fireworks this year.
me neither - not at home in Ayrshire or at work in Edinburgh or anywhere in the commute in between . One distant dull ‘thwomp’ on my walk back through leith to my digs tonight - one day out from bonfire night’ and that’s it.
I've never known it as quiet Mac.
Abnormally quiet here too, normally plenty going off for a week either side of the 5th.
Barney sleeps through them, he's not too bothered, probably dreaming about chasing cyclists anyway, the scared ones are tastier....
Same here (North Ayrshire), been fairly quiet.
Sorry if
a) you bought a dog sometime in the last couple of hundred years since fireworks became a regular occurrence in Britain.
Hmm, not that regular. When I was growing up it was November the 5th, Hogmanay if you lived somewhere TV worthy.
In recent years its been any time there was a Y in the day. Still, I'm sure people right to play with fireworks whoever the **** they feel like it trumps any consideration of others. Not your problem right?
Hasn’t been too bad around is either. Haven’t even noticed any tonight in Newcastle, if there was there were very few. My dogs loves to sit and watch the fireworks from the window.
I live near Ash Ranges. I can’t hear the fireworks over the noise of the shooting...
Very minor number of bangs locally last night here compared to other years. Lying with the kids putting them to bed and there were a few big ones. Few minutes later heard a more distant noisy car followed by the rapid BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG-BANG. It was easier to agree with then asking if it was more fireworks than explain it’s an eijit with a pops n bangs remap on their Corsa.
I live near Ash Ranges. I can’t hear the fireworks over the noise of the shooting…
Dodgy housing estate?. 😁
Luckily one of our dogs is really not bothered by fireworks and the o e who always was is almost completely deaf now so he only gets worked up if they are particularly loud.
Means I can actually enjoy the massive display our near neighbours put on every year now. It reminds me of the news footage of the first night of the invasion of Baghdad!
I don't have a dog, I'd like to see fireworks banned. I'd like to see selfish stupid *wits banned too but that's even less likelt to happen
the doigs arent the issue, the use of the fireworks is. We're lucky here, like others it's been a few nights over thep st two weeks or so. Back in Hazel grove it was every night for three weeks solid leading up to bonfire night, often they were set off in the early hours of the morning. ** **.
seems to have become a thing over the last few years. when people ask for noise free fireworks, I dispair.
I don't miss having a week of what felt like carpet bombing back when we lived in Sheffield. Particularly when many seemed to think 1am was fine too be rattling the windows.
But I do enjoy a couple of big bangs a year. I'm sure the party house behind us will have a suitable arsenal tonight.
It's all back to RuleNo.1.
Unless you're Colin Furze, in which case you've a free pass.
Sorry if….
You’re not an adult yet & you still get exited about fireworks.
You could tell our Labrador wasn’t an adult cos she’d stand with here tongue out & tail going like the clappers when she saw fireworks.
We were in Goa once & there was fireworks on the beach quite often. The lad setting them off one night once managed to set them all off together. I can almost imagine what the raid on Baghdad was like.
Fireworks in general though? Meh.
Big dog doesn’t care about fireworks, smaller rescue dog spends the nights whimpering and cowering during explosives season. I don’t mind fireworks, it’s not that big a deal.
How do silent fireworks work? Surely they can’t give as good a display?
Near Derby I saw that the usual fireworks display is going to be replaced by a drone display in an effort to be more pet friendly
I'd like to see the sale of them banned to the public, stupid idea selling ready made explosives over the counter.
That said don't have a lot of sympathy for dog owners either, within reason it's your pet, your problem.
Facebook has descended into the usual rows between entitled dog owners and the sort of people who see it all as harmless fun.
a) you bought a dog sometime in the last couple of hundred years since fireworks became a regular occurrence in Britain.
Does this mean we can dismiss anyone who lives within a 20 mile radius of an airport that complains of aircraft noise?
What about those who complain about TV programmes when there is a choice of 100 different channels to watch and it's no longer 1960 with only 1 or 2 channels to choose from?
What about cyclists who complain about cars?
What about drivers who complain about cyclists?
We seem to have turned into a nation of intolerant whingers and moaners all round.
By the way I don't give a shit about fireworks or any of the above really...we do have a puppy so this is their first year of experiencing fireworks so I'm prepared and went into dog ownership with my eyes wide open. Crack on with the fireworks!! I love a good display I do...the noisier the better.
Non-dog owner here and I'd happily see the sale of fireworks to the public banned. Last November the local park was littered with spent fireworks for days. People cannot be trusted to have fun and clear up after themselves.
Non-dog owner here and I’d happily see the sale of fireworks to the public banned. Last November the local park was littered with spent fireworks for days. People cannot be trusted to have fun and clear up after themselves.
If you transposed dog and firework in that it would work perfectly well* the other way around too. Except the November bit obviously.
*I'm not entirely sure what a spent dog would be, maybe it's a spaniel after accompanying people on a day blasting grouse?
me neither – not at home in Ayrshire or at work in Edinburgh or anywhere in the commute in between . One distant dull ‘thwomp’ on my walk back through leith to my digs tonight – one day out from bonfire night’ and that’s it.
Similar here, just a few very short small stuff. Luckily the dog seems more interested than upset, quite likes going out for a look but I think it’s just an opportunity for him to sniff arses, of any species that happens to be available.
The observation I have with fireworks season, the volume of ordnance in Scotland has never been comparable to that I remember in England. Where fireworks shot down residential streets at head height was a thing. Finding spent rockets in the tiny terraced back garden was a regular occurrence so god knows how many actually got used, in Scotland I can’t remember seeing one full stop, I’m sure I have, but it’s never been “woah look at all these”. It certainly wasn’t just a handful of days either, but weeks of it.
Might have to go an search for fireworks sales by year and country, I’ve no real idea whether the numbers have changed.
I’m not entirely sure what a spent dog would be
Apropos nothing, but 'spending' is the term used for working/assistance dogs pooing and weeing (q.v. 'dog spending area' - this does not refer to a pet shop!). So a spent dog is one that has done its business.
The observation I have with fireworks season, the volume of ordnance in Scotland has never been comparable to that I remember in England
As a very rough guess I'd imagine thats more to do with the historic origins of guy fawkes night being a little less popular in Scotland than England so the bonfire thing wasn't as well established when sales of fireworks on November became a thing. (and obviously your NEDs spend on bucky not bangers)
Equally I'd imagine the volume sold at new year is probably the other way around.
Very much a guess mind.
It’s all back to RuleNo.1.
Indeed, sadly it seems precious few are capable of empathy. Maybe if they were and could contain their excitement over the month or so run up people wouldn't have given up putting up with their pish with a grin and just pulled out the ban tactic.
As said, if it was a single night folk can deal with that, when it's entirely at random not so much.
So a spent dog is one that has done its business.
In which case, quite by accident, it really does almost work!
Spend New year’s in the Netherlands, it’s like a warzone
Try and make it any of the towns on the Spanish Valencian coast when they're holding a "mascletada", it's an amazing experience.
It's not just about pet dogs. Loud thunderous explosions at the dead of night, the whole night-sky suddenly lighting up, repeatedly, throughout the night, night after night, cannot fail to have a significantly negative effect on the natural world.
One, two, maybe three nights in the year, is tolerable. Night after night during the "firework seasons" isn't imo. Last night was noisy in my neck of the woods.
The time I heard repeated loud firework explosions at 1am on a Monday morning, despite it not being 'firework night'and no one else doing so, will always stick in my mind as an example of how selfish some people can be when it comes to fireworks.
The time to ban them is well overdue imo. Or at least have strict controls to limit their use.
As a very rough guess I’d imagine thats more to do with the historic origins of guy fawkes night being a little less popular in Scotland than England so the bonfire thing wasn’t as well established when sales of fireworks on November became a thing. (and obviously your NEDs spend on bucky not bangers)
Equally I’d imagine the volume sold at new year is probably the other way around.
Very much a guess mind.
Someone that’s been here longer than me will know better, but I have been told there was a lot of work done to discourage firework usage in an anti social way. I’d have been told that in 2013 so before then assuming she wasn’t talking pish.
Not sure about the volume being the other way round in England for NY, Hogmanay fireworks tend to be saved for the moment in time, so all go at once rather than spread out. But maybe 🤷
If I had an aversion to fireworks for whatever reason, my experience is that the situation is better for both Bonfire Night and NY in Scotland. But then, personal experience isn’t great for the overall picture.
Last night was noisy in my neck of the woods.
Diwali celebrations maybe?
