If you were letting off fireworks last night what was it for?

We are sheep farmers. Most of the ewes are pregnant. None of the sheep are shut in barns or cages they are grazing the fields.

I spend most of November walking the fields looking for aborted foetuses of lambs caused by the terror of fireworks. It's heart wrenching watching a ewe desperately trying to lick & coax a clearly dead foetus into life. It's our livelihood too so every lost pregnancy eats into the tiny (if any) profit we make.

Fireworks have become louder & more powerful and cause intense suffering & distress to our livestock. They are prey animals so suffer far more greatly than a predator like a cat or dog

Spare some thought for the wild animals - the bees and migratory birds who die as their hearing & navigation systems are damaged by the bangs, the hedgehogs and small mammals etc as they don't have a farmer to care for them at all.

Some idiot set loud fireworks off last night. Two of my dogs were terrified.
I have sedatives off the vet for firework night, but so many people just set them off weeks in advance. It makes me so angry that, as always, human ‘enjoyment’ comes before animal welfare.

How, in this day and age, anyone can walk into a shop and buy explosives, I don’t know.

Yep, even the rules we have aren't enforced

And I’m sure all the teenagers buying them and throwing them out of car windows are sure to check that.

I looooooove fireworks but agree with pp ab0ut silent ones.
Someone had the about 4 years ago on my estate, bit freaked out by sight and no hear at first, but heck yeah. Considering how many people get barely any sparkle but mega boom ones, which are just stupid. Soundless all the way! Or lower sound.

All I care about is the wildlife, livestock and pets. I hope they're banned. Even the silent ones will be misused by the yobs. Those types love scaring animals.

We have 14 days of diwali just as christians have multiple days of christmas. Only a non-religious person celebrates christmas just on the day.

First day of diwali

apaprt from things like sparklers, Home use fireworks are categorised F2. this means a minimum of 8 metres beteen the fireworks and any people or livestock and some need 15 metres. This has to be your own land so you can't shove them next to your neighbours fence and say its fine.

I wish I lived where you do. I live rurally with lots of people riding. teenagers were driving round last year throwing lit fireworks at the horses.

People around here set them off pretty much every night between October and January - it gets incredibly grating.

My dog is 11 and he didn't bat an eye at fireworks for the first few years of his life but on NYE 2019, some fuckwit set off a load of huge fireworks on the pavement right outside our house. The noise was deafening and my poor boy nearly pulled a cabinet over trying to climb inside it. Ever since that night, he has been terrified of fireworks; I even built him his own little wooden house to hide from them. It's at the bottom of our bed and he retreats to it as soon as he hears the first bang.

P.S. someone just started setting them off as I was typing this 🙄

St Crispin's Day. Battle of Agincourt?

My dog was terrified last night, shaking and panting with fear. She's got meds ready for bonfire night and NYE but I wasn't expecting any last night. I (stupidly probably) assumed that as Diwali falls on Thursday, people would be celebrating that night and the following weekend, but I should have realised some might be starting the weekend before it too. So I hadn't given her any drugs in preparation and it was too late once they'd kicked off. But they've been going off randomly most evenings near me, I assume idiots and not for actual celebrations. No music or ear defenders in the world drowns it out enough for her. The vets are going to start her on longer term anti-anxiety meds that she can take daily rather than the one off doses for specific events. It's horrible seeing her like that. I'm seriously wondering if she'd be happier rehomed out in the country somewhere as she's just a nervous wreck all the time. I really wish people weren't allowed to buy the noisy ones now that silent or low noise ones exist. My kids are scared too but at least I can explain it to them and sometimes they actually get to see the pretty colours in the sky, whereas the poor dog has no concept of it.

Fireworks have started around me since the 2nd week of September.. a few here and there usually around 5/6pm and then another couple of bursts around 11pm and around 1am so it's been annoying.. I expect this to continue till about the 3rd week of November...

My cats thankfully don't care and get into the window to try and see and then go back to sleep.

He’s got a point about crows and chihuahuas actually. 😆

My big lad couldn’t give a shit about fireworks either way, he snoozes through it. Little girl was a hunting dog in Cyprus in another life and any kind of load bangs terrify her. It’s old girl I really worry for this year, her health hasn’t been great lately.

Still, as long as people get to watch their money literally go up in smoke. 🙄

Next-door-but-two had loads they set off two weekends ago. My poor cat was still outside and she was missing for hours. We live right on the edge of a woodlands and every time one went off you could hear all the birds flying off. My neighbours are refugees from a war, then have twin babies. I have no idea how scary it must have been for them. This was mid October. If it had been next weekend I would have known to keep my cat in.
And this is before we mention all the litter it creates.

Why anyone thinks that allowing any passing person to buy explosives is ok is beyond me.

Our dog wasn’t bothered by fireworks used to happily sit on the garden watching until Covid years when it seemed to go a bit crazy :( went on for about 2 weeks every night.

Initially she would bark at every bang which wasn’t fair on the neighbours! We managed to stop that but now she will literally pant and stress :( we’ve tried so hard with her. Depending on the work we have put in this year I think we will have to medicate her from the vets :(

If it was just one night or only on Diwali and 5th November rather than the two weeks either side! Just when you think it’s over wizz bang explosion = terrified dog again

Absolutely dreading fucking firework season this year. My oldest dog has had a couple of grand mal seizures recently, am genuinely worried what the noise will do to her. Think I’ll see if the vets can give her something to keep her calm.

Halloween isn’t till late next week so don’t see a reason for fireworks quite yet

There was nothing near me. There never is for Halloween, or Guy Fawkes, or New Year's Eve either. One of the best thing about living in a rural village/in the sticks/around loads of farms, is that it's frowned upon to let fireworks off.

It scares the lifestock and can make cows, sheep, and pigs miscarry if they're pregnant. You will make an enemy of the farmers AND the locals if you set off fireworks. Fireworks also scare pets too.

It's a very middle class rural area village though, and setting off fireworks that they got from Tesco is not an activity people around here engage in.

Someone was letting off fireworks this morning at 1.30am!!!
I thought I was hearing things, until someone posted on our village FB page about it.

The reason our local council gives funding is to encourage organised displays rather than people setting them off randomly.

Some places outsource their firework displays. The one near us was last night as the company goes round different parts of the county and I guess it’s pot luck which weekend you get.

I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to Frequency whose Big Dog enjoys watching the Fireworks. Which is why I addressed my comment to her.

Earlier I didn't say it was training, I said if you had them from a puppy it was acclimatising them as puppies. Some people don't bother or don't realise they should.