Is it about time these are banned for public use , if they actually set them of on November 5th ,instead of 2weeks before and after.Then the pets they scare also, the emergency admissions also due to idiots misusing them and genuine accidents especially when hospital s being overstretched with covid
We'll buy some but not rockets or loud ones, little un been learning about Halloween and bonfire night. Want her to enjoy them in the garden but I'd never go OTT. Plus means a good excuse for pie and peas.
I'm the instructions say never light whilst leathered or high. Never launch em from your hand, mouth or anus.
remember a bonfire party back in my youth, my dad gets firework out with plastic pointy bottom, I am about 6 "not seen one like this before, you must hold it in your hand with this plastic handle", he lights it , 2 minutes of me napalming the hedge, it was a roman candle, omg , its only gods good grace I was facing away from rest of people there
I've got one of those. I tell him to do this or that. He looks at me and ignores me. I shall pat him now and comfort him in his deafness
My dad once didn't nail a Catherine Wheel to the garage frame incorrectly, never moved as quick. When rugby coaches used to say imagine having to move the quickest you've ever moved. That incident came to mind, they couldn't understand why I screamed on drill shouting fire fire fire!
Totally agreed ,boils my piss hearing tossing fireworks for three weeks.dogs really scared ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Same here Red 24/7. Our little Lhasa Apso doesn't know what to do with himself. Everytime there is a bang , he starts to shake from his head down to his tail. He is also very " needy" and is very loathe to leave my wife's side. Trouble is, he won't do his toileting on our premises. We have to walk him round our avenue and up Towngate in Ossett at least three times every day. At the first sign of a firework going off, he pulls at his lead and legs it all the way home. I wish these irresponsible idiots could see the trauma they cause to pets. Not that it would have any effect on them. They are totally selfish imo.
I bet the fireworks are helping police easily seek out illegal gatherings lol. They do my nut as well. I also love bonfire night, but I'd like to see fireworks restricted to that night and maybe at a push New Years. Having 3-4 weeks of it every year isn't good.
It most likely won't be massively helpful to any present pets that people have (although it can be if you work at it for a few months before Bonfire Night) but if you want any new pups to not be afraid then there are things you can do with them. Guide dog pups for example are introduced to a lot of noises from literally a couple of weeks old. They are played tapes of fireworks, sirens, drills, vacuums etc. as they play, relax and eat and then as they grow up the noises don't make them bat an eye at all. You start with it really quiet for a few minutes so they can barely hear it at all and leave it like that for a while whilst they do their thing. You then turn it up slightly, if they react you turn it down to the highest volume where they don't react to it and then you play it for a few minutes. You keep it at this volume for a few days until you raise it again, turning it back down if they react. You keep doing this over a couple of weeks (so it is quite a commitment but definitely worth it) until it doesn't matter what volume you have it at, they just don't care. You can do this with adult dogs too but it's better when they are pups so they never experience the fear and it needs to be done in advance of Bonfire Night season.
I do as well Helen. What I disagree with, is that in the area where we live, people start setting fireworks off mid October and carry on doing it, until well into November. They start again on the run up to Christmas and seem to carry on regardless until early January. As well as the distressing effect fireworks have on pets, there has to be detrimental climate change implications with the number of bonfires that are lit throughout the whole of Yorkshire. We left Doncaster in 1987, so I'm not sure whether it is still a feature on Bonfire night in the town, but along with many other families, we always made a point of supporting the Civic Bonfire. It was always held on the 5 th November on some waste ground with ample parking on the opposite side of the road to Doncaster Racecourse. It was so popular that there was overspill parking on what was the Belle Vue Stadium the then home of Doncaster Rovers. To compliment what was happening on the Bonfire site, there was also a fairground. The fee to attend the Bonfire which was supervised by members of Doncaster Fire Brigade was reasonable and as well as a massive fire and an impressive Guy, you had a two hour firework display and you could buy Parkin, toffee apples, Bonfire toffee, Candy floss, Tea, Coffee, hot dogs, bacon and sausage baps and a selection of soft drinks. For a lot of parents and communities, it just wasn't worth holding your own individual bonfires.
locke park holds a similar one, sometimes we go to one at Notton or last year we went to the one at Athersley rec. We always have sparklers on the actual 5th of November though, and some years we had the small box of fireworks when the children were younger.
