To want the fireworks to stop now?

What kind of absolute moron is still setting fireworks off now?

My dog pissed himself again in the hall last night, during the night. Too scared to go out. A 13 year old dog whose been house trained since an 8 week old puppy. That's how scared he is.

Fireworks started up again here yesterday evening from 18.25 hours till late.

Firework season started mid October.

Fully expecting them tonight as well. Possibly tomorrow.

All these people setting them off are breaching the Council’s rules & regs, but there’s no enforcement because the enforcement team don’t work at night any more because of central government cuts.

And if you report them the next day it’s hard to pinpoint an exact address, give names etc if it’s ‘in the next street’ or ‘behind my road’, and so the enforcement team can’t open a case anyway without evidence.

We had them again until way past midnight last night. Thursday night two nights after bonfire night is not a logical time for a display!

Not had any fireworks here since Tuesday. Not a peep.

But the “i don't need to pick up my dogs poo because the fallen leaves will hide it” season is in full swing unfortunately!

Been awful round my way. Weekend just gone, horrendous. Going on until 3AM. Then really bad on bonfire night.
My cat is terrified and I have jumped out of my skin a few times.
They need to make it so it's professional displays only. We are meant to be an animal loving country yet look what we do to them year in year out. I find it hard enough losing sleep due to them and the general annoyance but I know it's much worse for animals.

More fucking fireworks. Another night of a stressed out dog and stressed out owners. It's been nearly 2 weeks now.

Honestly? I like festivals where the celebration only happens on the day of the festival. Hallow’een is fine on 31 October but the mad run up to it (with a serious list of activities) is a bit annoying. Some I can get out of, some I can’t.

Guy Fawkes’ night should only be fireworks between 6pm and 8pm on 5 November.

Christmas is only meant to be twelve days from 25 December (although the tree should be decorated on Christmas Eve). Instead it’s a mad orgy of consumption from mid November - no wonder everyone feels fat and boozed out in January.

No rain here, but there have been several garden displays so far this evening. I hate fireworks, they terrify me.

I could plan/prepare for them if limited to specific evenings, probably by spending the evening and night elsewhere, where I know there will be fewer of them, and where a friend or my boyfriend can help to keep me from panicking. I could also cope with planned organised displays only, as I'd know what time they'd start and how long they'd go on for.

I can't prep for and find it hard to cope with weeks and weeks of them going off every evening, especially the massively loud ones which explode out of the blue, without the warning of the whistling noise you get with old fashioned ones.

They started here at 4.15.

Same here!

5.20pm, 6th November and there are garden fireworks going off here in the rain. 🙄

About 10 days over Halloween/bonfire night for us so far. The last firework was about 11.30 last night. We were all in bed and finally relaxing after a stressful night.
Then people using up what they bought so it might carry on.
Christmas and new years.

One or two days a year would be fine and manageable. People could medicate their pets for those days. They can plan in advance, go away etc. Some holiday accommodation advertises as firework free.

Random bangs can't be planned for in the same way. People can't medicate their pets 10-15 days a year just in case. It isn't fair or healthy.

This also assumes that the only impact is on pets. Not wildlife, children and adults with neurodevelopmental conditions or trauma.

The impact can be huge and animals die.

You didn't read the thread.....

Pet owners have 364 days to prepare for the fireworks and always act so surprised and incensed when fireworks start.

I have a puppy, however he seemed unbothered. I did play 30 minutes of fireworks sounds each day on the alexa in October to desensitise him.

however, fireworks should not be available to buy by the public. Organised events only.

I wonder if the majority of people setting off fireworks have a clue why they’re doing it. Is the gunpowder plot part of the school curriculum?

Horses, cattle and farm animals can also panic with fireworks.
Never mind the wildlife.

It depends on individual dogs.
We live next to a field that has always had massive displays
My old dogs used to watch from indoors- never bothered.

Current dog was absolutely terrified- running back and forth indoors.

She just doesn’t like the fact that the sky was on fire.

She’s not afraid of thunder.
Gunshot is different to a barrage of fireworks.

Distant fireworks are tolerated by her but a massive display is on for Saturday, so not sure how she will cope with those this year compared to last year- hopefully they won’t be too loud.

It's not one week

Yep and this! Dogs and shitty owners cause more agg than a week of festivities. The shitty owners don't only practise shitty ownership for one week of the year.

Yep completely agree. Queue the 'I don't let my cat / dog shit everywhere!'

Well there's certainly enough of it round my middle class market town. I see piles of shit daily. I can tell you now, having myself or my 3 year old step in dog shit the. Traipsing that around and into my home where I have to strip my child off and chuck out a pair of shoes because lazy dog owners can't be fucked to pick up their dog shit, is much more annoying than the general public celebrating festivities for a short amount of time. It's one week out of 52. I'm sure your dog will survive.

It's impossible to go through life without being scared of anything.

You absolutely can and it's possible. Maybe not for every dog but it certainly was for mine.

I'm sorry yes I did. I'm sorry about that

You're absolutely not U;my DD with ASD has slept so badly this past weekend because of all the fireworks

I am grinning and bearing it. 😅

I have really bad issues with noise. I get really aggy and cant cope with it 😅 so not just animals get stressed out. Guessing it's related to autism. The sudden bangs and the loud music, my heart starts racing and feel like my blood boils.
I have slapped on my headphones to sleep with some consistent meditation sounds 😂
I just assume I'm unreasonable.