To think fireworks either need to be banned

[IceAndLemonPlease]

Or made soundproof?
I have spent the last 5 hours trying to calm my terrified cat who has hid under my bed refusing to come out. My daughter woke up crying an hour ago as the fireworks were deafening and I haven’t been able to concentrate on a thing as it’s so noisy outside. Honestly been worse than NYE around here these past few days. Definitely have been going on until past 11PM also.

@dumpkin not being able to sleep because of fireworks going off? Literally now, all around, still??

I think humans are the ones creating more carbon footprint than cats and dogs…

I've never been that bothered tbh but tonight somebody is letting off some proper bangers a few houses down and it's pissing me off now.

It's the Festival of Bangs here tonight.

Gone 10pm is too late.

Did you ask to be here? Did any of us?

So what?

@Sandrine1982 my dc are asleep though so not every child is the same. I don’t remember fireworks disturbing me as a dc & we didn’t have double glazing then.

I think you may have missed the point - I'm fairly sure Ballsbaill wasn't blaming the dogs and cats themselves.

Fireworks aren’t all the time. But cats still crap everywhere and kill birds for sport, and entitled dog owners continue their own special brand of annoying world domination. Nothing stops the pet owners thinking the world revolves around them and their animals. 🙄

Do you find torturing animals fun?

I don't see how loud bangs are 'fun'.

I love fireworks and our cats aren't remotely bothered but I think they should be limited to organised displays only, or maybe require a licence with strict conditions to be able to set them off.

So many people with terrified animals - I heard of someone still trying to calm their elderly horse down a day after some particularly loud ones. And then there's the groups of yobs meeting up for "fireworks wars" and turning cities into actual war zones.

Someone in our town was setting professional grade ones off on Friday "for Remembrance Day" not seeing the irony in making the town sound like an a war zone and the affect this may be having on people who have survived war, not even on the right day either!

If it were just the crappy little ones we used to let off in the back garden when I was a kid then it wouldn't be so bad - they just all seem so much bigger and louder these days.

I would definitely have stricter laws. Fireworks really get on my nerves. I swear I have misophobia, or whatever it’s called. I hate noise. Right now I can hear the screeching and exploding of souped up cars, with those stupid exhausts that crackle and bang. They drive me insane.

Yeah and?
We sell gun powder (pretty much) to the public, to do with as they see fit. Let’s face it most people aren’t that bright so inevitably people get injured. More strain on NHS.
Government must make millions or they’d ban them!
Then it’ll be back to cost of living 🤔🙄

I love fireworks but would much prefer silent ones to be used exclusively, does anyone enjoy the loud bangs??? I took my kids to a show and the rockets were very loud, I'm sure in the 90s they were much quieter?

Dogs and cats bring pleasure and companionship all year round. A split second explosion of colour can hardly be compared.

I can see both sides but as a tip for pet owners you can buy pet sized weighted blankets which are meant to help with anxiety and fireworks if that's any help to anyone on here.

Dogs and cats bring pleasure and companionship all year round. A split second explosion of colour can hardly be compared.

i think the comparison was the damage to the environment?

Don’t cats kill 50 million birds a year? I have a cat by the way & a dog.

I am currently very unwell. I can't get out much certainly not to an organised display I couldn't cope with the cold and standing around. One small bit of joy in a pretty depressing, small life, was looking out my window at my neighbour's firework display a couple of weeks ago and hearing their children shriek and laugh.

And yes I have a cat also. She's scared of fireworks.....and thunderstorms, and the hoover, and going to the vet, and tinfoil, and cars that drive by too loudly, and drilling or other loud DIY noise, and anyone other than us coming into the house. Sure there a few I missed! Should we ban all of that? No, we continue as normal and reassure and ensure she has safe cosy places to "hide" if she needs to. And I don't assume that the world revolves around me and my cat (or child for that matter).

Agree that banning pets would have a more beneficial on the environment than banning fireworks.

But really I think that posts on SM about fireworks should be banned.

Cut off for Diwali. Chinese new year. New Year’s Eve. All 1am. Have to suck it up. I love fireworks. I’m too mean to buy myself so enjoy watching others displays

Ok, what about my neighbour's little boy who has autism + other problems? He is beside himself with stress and overstimulation from the noise. He rocks and tears at things, sometimes his own skin.
His carbon footprint is probably huge, and of course there are too many people on the planet with terrible environmental impact.
But no home fireworks and silent fireworks would change his life this time of year.

Come to Birmingham where fireworks are set off pretty much every night of the year and often at midnight to 2 am. October/ November is possibly peak explosives time (they don't sound like your average roman candle for sure).

I don't have a dog or a cat but I am pretty fed up with the noise myself. I used to be live and let live about fireworks but I'm now firmly in the only at organised displays camp. Can't see it happening though, as the present laws aren't enforced.

Nope, far more offended by pets crapping and barking everywhere!

Aside from the pets v fireworks argument, what about the danger of allowing the public to buy gunpowder ? The injuries and burns and all for what? A few seconds of gratification!