Why can’t we have drone displays instead of fireworks?

[Nobumsonthetable]

My poor dog is wrapped around me with fear. Every time there is a bang I get a start. The point of fireworks is surely the look rather than the sound?? And as for letting random idiots buy them in bloody Lidl and set them off in their back gardens - this is insane. I live in a densely populated suburb of London. Setting off fireworks here is so fkn antisocial. Grr.

or even low noise fireworks? I hated all the firework bangs last night thinking of all the pets and animals

Drone fireworks are actually small fireworks on drones anyway.

the amount of resource needed to manufacture, organise and execute a drone display are massive btw

I mean I don’t claim to have house cats. I do have house cats. And my animals are all raw fed using by products from the human food industry. I don’t use chemical flea and tick treatments on my dogs because of the impact on aquaculture.

But yes. They have an environmental impact still.

I’m comfortable that I’m doing my best. I see no conflict between owning my pets and caring for wildlife. I live in a rural area. I’ve seen birds leave their roosts and fly in utter panic, en masse, because of fireworks. I know of horses that have died because they have broken their legs trying to escape. And I’ve been into a city and seen kids firing them at each other in broad daylight, shoppers be damned, street pigeons utterly petrified and flying at buildings.

But sure. Fireworks are your best. Cool.

Right, glad you admit there's an environmental impact. But you're not doing your best, because your best would be not having them. Your dogs and cats are an optional, selfish luxury. Just like fireworks. Which means you're throwing stones in your glass house. And that's even when doing much, much better than most pet owners- because remember, we're not talking only about you.

As for the 3rd finger wagging paragraph, you appear to have forgotten to mention all the dogs used to attack humans and other anims, the millions of birds killed every year by fireworks...an accidental omission I'm sure.

This isn't even a particularly pro fireworks point either. One could dislike fireworks and still understand what a ragingly hypocritical stance this is. As I said, pet owners simply do not have standing to make arguments for limiting fireworks due to the impact on wildlife and the environment. The wiser amongst them understand this.

Not just dogs. Cats, wild animals, horses, cattle, sheep, birds, humans.

The new style of fireworks sold to the public are much louder and more powerful than they used to be.

They are LED lights!

People only started having fireworks (at least back garden ones) at New Year from 2000. Wasn’t usual before then.

Not pyro drones

I was just about to write this

I was in bed by 10pm last night as id been at work and was asleep by 11pm

Woke up this morning and my garden is full of wooden sticks (the burnt out fireworks) and the idiot who set them off won't give a fuck

We live in a normal street which is way too small to set them off in a safe way

I really dont see why I have to spend 10 minutes outside,picking up someone else's rubbish,in the freezing cold because Dave from down the road thought it would be fun

This has really annoyed me-i wouldnt dream of going into someones back garden and dumping my rubbish there but it's ok because 'it's only a bit of fun'

Years ago my neighbours fireworks hit my window (my dcs bedroom window and they woke up screaming) and shattered the glass-they didnt want to know as 'it's not my problem'

I didnt set the bloody thing off but they couldn't see why I was bloody angry about it and refused to pay

I have never been a fan of fireworks, just noisy nonsense imo. A big, planned display can be impressive admittedly, but the ones people let off in their gardens or local fields are pretty rubbish. A few minutes of noise at huge expense and nuisance to pets and local wildlife. Luckily our dog doesn't seem fazed by them because the noise was horrendous last night, despite them being illegal where I live.

It's not just dogs who are scared of them, some of them are so loud. One made me jump yesterday evening.

Why do we have to have them for NYE anyway? It was for the Millennium. You can have them for the turn of the century if you like ;)

There's really no need for the loud ones - and there should be strict limits on who can buy fireworks at all and when. Personally I'd like them restricted to organised events and have limits on their volume too.

They are illegal in Northern Ireland I think so there's really no problem extending that prohibition to the rest of the UK>

Yes it was .

I remember people having fireworks on NYE in the 1970s
There were certainly fireworks from the tugs on the Thames as we lived close enough to see them, and hear their horns come Midnight.

Next breed you should consider is an Airedale. They can't get enough of explosions and fire. We had two of them and they loved fireworks. I had to keep them inside during our firework festivities, because they'd grab a bottle rocket right out of the bottle, before it blasted off. They'd run around in absolute joy smelling of burning hair. When I was burning off weeds, they'd leap on the flame, dig at it with their front paws and sparks would shoot up and land on their backs, again the burning hair smell.
The greatest thing our Bobbie Burdock pulled off was when my son, Billy Burdock, and I were burning off a large area of dried grasses. Billy poured a meandering trail of petrol through the tall grasses and then threw a burning match in. Bobbie jumped in to look for that tiny flame, when the whole area went up in flames - WHOOSH! I remarked, "Now that stupid dog is toast". Then out of the smoke comes Bobbie, so pleased with herself. Only her hair was slightly scorched.

I read they used Airedales in WW1. That would have been Bobbie and Bunty Burdocks dream job.

Sadly their lack of opposable thumbs mean they can't light the matches

Exactly This

Not all pets are like that.

I'll have to tell that to my friend who stables her horses near here then.

Oh, and ask my one cat who isn't scared of fireworks to explain it to the other two.

i love drones the chinese new year ones were amazing

disneyland paris does a greatg donre show prfer it to fireworks

My poor child is terrified of dogs. It doesn't stop people owning them though and that's 365 days of the year, not just for a few weeks around Bonfire Night and then NYE.

Your dog isn't everyone's priority, just like my child isn't your priority.

eh? Of course it was. I remember back garden fireworks in the late 80s and through the 90s.

Same. Perhaps there's local variation.

They aren’t exactly fireworks though!

Yes back garden fireworks for Bonfire night and only on the 5th (whatever day of the week that was).