To wonder if people aren't bothering with fireworks this year?

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I know bonfire night isn't officially until Tuesday, but usually there's have been fireworks going off all week round here and especially this evening, being the Saturday before.

It's really, really quiet here. Sainsburys aren't selling them this year, I wondered whether the mood is that people aren't bothering so much this year?

Haven't seen lots of threads on mumsnet this year either.

Loads been going off here tonight despite the awful weather we have had today. Luckily my dog isn't bothered by them, but some of the neighbours dogs have been barking and howling pretty much everytime one goes off

They sure as hell are here. . .

Do you think they may declare a ceasefire eventually?!

Less flippantly, we do think about how difficult it is for animals. I imagine it must be similarly so for some children (and adults?) who are autistic, and what about those who have PTSD from wartime experiences, either as civilian survivors, or combatants. I'd never really thought about that before, and it saddens me, how it must really be so difficult and distressing for some of them.

@mobosnz I think (hope) we are about 10 years away from a total ban on regular sales.

Fireworks have been going off for 2 weeks here. They started at 3.15pm today and we're now having the earth-shaking bangs. One of the dogs is terrified despite his Thundershirt, poor lad.
Yesterday they ceased at 10.30 pm and some idiot started again at 7am this morning. I'm not happy at the moment!

Not quiet here either!

There's loads here tonight. My dc are watching them through their bedroom window. I can't hear the neighbours' dogs either.

We've had them going off yesterday and tonight, I'm sick of them and would fully support a ban on public sale.

Oh @GooseFeather your poor doggo My dog is not a fan but only shakes. He has a thundershirt which works pretty well.

@StandardPoodle 3.15pm! Takes a special sort of idiot to let fireworks off when it's still light 🙄😡 there were some last nigh at 12.15!! Fucking ridiculous.

We've had a couple tonight but will expect loads on tues.We are going to an organised display on tues anyway

Going on for weeks and they will do right through until Jan. One dog is a bit scared but can manage. My other dog is very distressed - paces, howls, won't settle, shakes.

It has been rainy and windy here but we still have fireworks. Although I like looking at them I think non professional displays should be banned.

My cat is sitting terrified under the bed

Well I've just cleaned up my second dog puke in an hour and have a sofa cushion drying on the stove. So no, I don't think there's been any reduction in my area. My bastard neighbourhood has been full of fireworks for the last 2 hours.

I am convinced that the Mutt will die in November. Despite an adaptil collar, valerian spray and thunder shirt she still works herself into a panting, foaming mess pretty much every bastard night for 2 weeks from Halloween. One day it will kill her.

There are quite a few going off here but the weather is probably putting quite a few people off

We have a thundershirt, but it was so early I hadn't put it on yet, I left home about 3.30, back by 5.30 so really hadn't anticipated it starting yet. It was only after I had cleaned up I found a local FB post saying someone was setting them off for a kids party in the next street.

I have tried all sorts of desensitization, nothing has helped her. I have even tried Sileo, gave her 4 times the dose (I am comfortable with the safety margin as a one-off, but you can't do it every day for weeks on ene) and it does not touch the edges of her panic attacks.

Suffice to say it has been on since 5 today, we are not going to any displays and are watching a film with lots of other noise and the wood burner lit, in the hope it masks the display due to start around now about 300m away.

It’s like a war zone here. Been constant for an hour now. Ridiculous

No different to any other year, weather's OK here

I remember some guys throwing crackers under my horse as I was riding it down the street. Looking back, I sprout a few more grey hairs, thinking how that could have gone. Luckily, I had no sense, but a lot of fury, and my horse fancied herself quite the war charger. Those buggers needed a change of underwear.

Then there's the family friend who at a combined families fireworks party had a skyrocket go up her dress. Never seen anyone strip so fast.

How many times have I seen silly boozed up men doing daft things with fireworks that it was only good fortune meant they didn't lose a hand or an eye. . . or somebody else did.

I guess this adds up to something of a prejudice against fireworks!

I hate the things but my border collie is currently sat happily in the conservatory window watching a very animated and colourful display from the garden that backs on to ours!

Tipping down with rain here and fireworks have been every couple of seconds for the last hour or so. Some last night too. My one poor cat hates them.

In SW London here, lots of tonight as that's when the displays are on. Had some for Diwali as well. Heard a few on Halloween, is that a thing now?

They’ve been going off pretty much constantly here since 5pm. DDog and DCats are hysterical, and being autistic I’m also on the edge of hysterical-ness myself.

It’s a freaking noise fest round here.

Really quiet where I am, very strange as normally incredibly noisy

There seems to be hardly any here, not surprising though as the display we were going to see was cancelled due to weather so I’m guessing a lot of others were too.

It’s my first November as a cat owner so I thought I’d be super responsible and lock him in the sitting room with me and watch Blue Planet to distract him. A couple of bangers went off just a few houses away and he didn’t even flinch. He’s now just crying to be let out but I’m keeping him in anyway.