If you were letting off fireworks last night what was it for?

[Jovih]

I’m assuming Halloween? But are fireworks a Halloween thing? I’m pregnant with my first baby so it’s been a while since I went to a kid’s Halloween party

Genuinely curious

First day of diwali

We have 14 days of diwali just as christians have multiple days of christmas. Only a non-religious person celebrates christmas just on the day.

All I care about is the wildlife, livestock and pets. I hope they're banned. Even the silent ones will be misused by the yobs. Those types love scaring animals.

I looooooove fireworks but agree with pp ab0ut silent ones.
Someone had the about 4 years ago on my estate, bit freaked out by sight and no hear at first, but heck yeah. Considering how many people get barely any sparkle but mega boom ones, which are just stupid. Soundless all the way! Or lower sound.

And I’m sure all the teenagers buying them and throwing them out of car windows are sure to check that.

Yep, even the rules we have aren't enforced

Some idiot set loud fireworks off last night. Two of my dogs were terrified.
I have sedatives off the vet for firework night, but so many people just set them off weeks in advance. It makes me so angry that, as always, human ‘enjoyment’ comes before animal welfare.

How, in this day and age, anyone can walk into a shop and buy explosives, I don’t know.

We are sheep farmers. Most of the ewes are pregnant. None of the sheep are shut in barns or cages they are grazing the fields.

I spend most of November walking the fields looking for aborted foetuses of lambs caused by the terror of fireworks. It's heart wrenching watching a ewe desperately trying to lick & coax a clearly dead foetus into life. It's our livelihood too so every lost pregnancy eats into the tiny (if any) profit we make.

Fireworks have become louder & more powerful and cause intense suffering & distress to our livestock. They are prey animals so suffer far more greatly than a predator like a cat or dog

Spare some thought for the wild animals - the bees and migratory birds who die as their hearing & navigation systems are damaged by the bangs, the hedgehogs and small mammals etc as they don't have a farmer to care for them at all.