Is anyone else's dog completely unbothered by fireworks?

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Ours (collie lab cross) just doesn't give a fuck, and neither did my previous dog (a lab GSD cross).

If there's a particularly loud one he will look up at me, but it doesn't seem to upset him at all. People keep asking me what I did to make him so calm about them but I don't think I did anything!?

Is it just down to their personality? Or is there anything owners can do when training?

My dog was absolutely fine with them and I was a bit smug. But then we were walking past a house with a tiny garden a couple of years ago, a firework shot up and terrified him. He now refuses to go out in the dark. So sad.

Seems like most dogs don’t care about fireworks!

Not dogs, but our last two cats hated fireworks in our last house. We moved less than a mile away and suddenly weren't bothered. We've got two different cats now, occasionally one will lift his head, but they're both fast asleep and there's load fireworks going off.

I wonder if they feel safer here, house faces a different way, and lounge at the back, with an extension, so maybe they feel a bit more sheltered.

2 dogs and a cat here. None are bothered. Previous cats and dogs have never been bothered either and we live right next to an annual display site

Out Jack Russel doesn't care either. We didn't train her, other than picking her up to look through the widow so she could see them too. We did have to train her around football. Specifically our reaction when "our" team scored. She now thinks it's a great thing 😁. Ohh, exciting, is the reaction we get

I had a BF with dogs and they weren't bothered at all. Right up to when some scroat threw a firework at them when he was out walking them. Horrible thing to do.

My cat isn't bothered. When we got her and her mother they were very young. Mum cat looked at me when the first bangs started, I was like "Meh". So mum cat took no more notice. Daughter cat took her lead and hasn't been bothered either. She is however still scared witless by the window cleaner...

Mine is completely unbothered and we live somewhere very bad for fireworks. He was desensitised when he was young, most people won’t do that with their pets and that’s on them.

Neither dog is bothered.
One of them hates bird scarers, though...

ETA The local display has just started, it's very audible from here, and both dogs are fast asleep....

My dog isn't bothered at all and my cats like to watch them

I've just had to bath my dog as he literally shit himself when some went off very close to us and he was in the garden.

He's now wrapped in a blanket drying off snoozing. Finally stopped panting after an hour.

Mine likes to stand in the garden and watch them. However he is terrified of a whole host of other day to day things, he nearly had a breakdown yesterday when I walked into the room with a towel on my hair after my shower…

Springer spaniel and she's totally unbothered. Stands in the garden sniffing the air and staring up at the sky to work out where the noises are from.

Her parents are working gun dogs though so I always wondered if that was the reason.

Mine (cavapoo). There are fireworks going off right now- huge loud bangs constantly and she is laying on her back on the sofa with her legs in the air as if she doesn’t have a care in the world.

Now, if she saw a squirrel on the other hand, she’d be incandescent with rage and overcome with excitement 🤣

Our lab never worried. Our two cats are both out 🙄

The good old days when dogs weren’t fur babies! Yes, I’ve never known a dog bothered by them, back in the days when they were generally not commented on and your average toddler also wasn’t left ‘crying, shaking and unable to sleep’ if a firework was let off after 8pm.

It’s so weird to see the way they’ve been demonised. Local FB at the moment full of folk going mad because people are letting them off already. It literally would not have been commented on 20 years ago.

Neither dog nor cats give a shit about fireworks, thankfully. Must be awful for pets and people who do find them traumatic.

I've had 3 dogs all completely unbothered with no input from us at all, one would ask to go outside when he heard them and seemed to enjoy watching them!

Ours past and present aren't bothered. We made a very conscious decision to not react to fire works in any way. My step son tried to reassure one of our dogs when fire works were happening even though the dog was fine, but we stopped him. I think, sometimes, people reassure their dog which encourages the dog to be scared if you see what I mean?

Like how children fall and then look to their parents to see if they should cry?

Dogs were/are arseholes about other things but on fireworks we got that right lol.

Mines fast asleep by my feet. Not bothered in the slightest.

My dog watches them.

Our big dog loves them, no idea why, we have a big firework display in our village and he's a big fan. Just watches and wags his tail. It's very odd but I'm grateful. I feel so sorry for those who are terrified 😔

My lab/ kelpie doesn't care at all , doesn't flinch when a ambulance / police car goes past with sirens on either.

We’re fortunate (or the dogs are). We have 3 dogs and they are all fine with loud noises. Our 2 cats also are. I have only had 1 dog over the years who was afraid of fireworks, thunderstorms etc. She was terrified and very upset by them. She was inconsolable too. 😳

I think it’s personality and absence of previous trauma for dogs and being a cat for cats. The calm dog helps calm the cat is a cat here though at least.

I’ve had dogs since I was a teenager, never had one scared of fireworks.
Different breeds, rescue dogs, different temperaments. Had cats as well, just to curl up and go to sleep, often dog and cat curled up together.