Fireworks

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Our greyhound was so afraid of the Halloween fireworks we had thanks to our neighbours last night. It was heartbreaking to see him so confused, quivering in a heap on the sofa, walking around panting, just generally not being himself. In the morning he was still scared and I had to physically show him the back garden was a safe place to go again.

I just wish fireworks you can buy and let off in your back garden should be banned. I am absolutely dreading the 5th November. It would be much fairer if firework lovers could just see public displays that are a bit further away from residential areas.

I've just spent £139 at the vet on anti anxiety medication for our boy and that's a lot of money for us

Anyone else out there going through similar? Can anyone relate?

I'm not against one off parties as that's just loud music / voices so I can just suck it up when it comes to that quite happily but there is just something so different about loud bangs. It's scary for pets, young children and more. Rant over!

For future reference, these are very effective and a lot cheaper than vet medication.

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Were they not for Diwali rather than Halloween? Same night this year. Diwali really isn’t Diwali without fireworks unfortunately. Poor dogs though, I do sympathise. Luckily none of our dogs have ever been bothered.

Awful. None of the herbal stuff worked for
Mine. We had to tranquilise. He would have had a heart attack otherwise. Now dealing with a horse who is not a fan which means we are doing shifts at the yard tonight and over the weekend and next.

Mine used to be terrified after someone let one off a few feet away from him on a walk (while it was still light)

But we started giving him a daily dose of NutriPaw tablets which seems to have made a massive difference this year. He's a lot calmer.

Aww poor boy, he sounds very afraid :(

My girl was fine last year but two evenings ago some went off when she was in the garden and she's been unsettled since, barking at the windows and at one point huddling on the landing.

What really put me off fireworks was thinking about wildlife or animals in fields that have no one trying to calm them down. It must be terrifying for them.

@boulevardofbrokendreamss @coffeesaveslives @Unluckycat1 sorry to hear of your similar sad stories.

My boy is ok now. We had some fireworks tonight but they've stopped now and we are cuddled up together on the sofa.

We always stay in on the weekends around and on bonfire night as our dog is terrified.

But we went out 5-7 tonight for tea and didn't realise there might be fireworks at that time. Come home to a missing chunk of wood in the kitchen door. Scratches on the walls and he had been sick. Poor thing

No pets and I like fireworks but twats round here were letting them off until 2.45am !!!! In the early hours of this morning.

Four out of five of my dogs have not been bothered by fireworks. My 4 yr old Newfoundland is terrified. It's non stop terror for her from roughly last week in October (half term), when the supermarkets start selling them to New Year. Throw in other religious festivals like Dewali and it can be any time that we can't even prepare for.
I have to sedate her-which we've done 3 times this week.
I've nothing against kids having sparklers etc.. but there is no place for rockets and bangers around wildlife and domestic pets. How they cope at Battersea I'll never know. I hope they have an equivalent of a no fly zone re fireworks in and around the area.

@dogfail oh my god that's horrible and so sad! I didn't anticipate fireworks tonight either but my dh gave me a warning as he saw on a local face book group that there would be some.

What's your dog doing now, is he ok?

My dh is on a night shift and my toddler can wake up quite a bit so I find times like these tricky. Wish I could clone myself so there were 2 of me!

@abracadabra1980 are you using Selio? That's what we've bought for the 5th. Made my purse hurt!

Very anxious for rest of night. Once kids were in bed he ended up going to sleep on my knee (he's a huge lab/german shepherd cross)

Luckily we are visiting in-laws today and they are a bit out the way so hopefully he will have an easier night.

Not just dogs affected by fireworks, my cat is petrified of them.

I get that firework displays are social events and don’t happen often but it’s the unpredictability of when they will finish. It goes midnight here and the cat hides.

My cat was absolutely terrified over the last two nights as we had fireworks on both nights. She was hiding and absolutely scared out of her wits. It does make me wonder how wild animals feel when they hear guns. Time to ban fireworks.

Apparently fireworks for Diwali is a relatively recent thing. They don't HAVE to. Just keep fireworks for displays, November 5 and NYE if we must. It's terrifying for pets, horses and wildlife, not to mention bad for the environment.

Mine is hiding in her safe place - the downstairs loo. We've had a very noisy display near to us at about 6.30 lasting for 15 mins. There has been other pops and bangs but nothing so close but she reacts the same way if it is near or far.
She has had all the homeopathic stuff. She's on it for a while before hand then I ramp up the dosage to the max that I dare plus an Adaptil collar and diffusers. This year, she is on Zyklene, dorwest valarian tabs, Nutrapet Calm. All I want her to be able to do is self regulate and go and hide. We are having quite a bit of fireworks tonight so am hoping that that means there may be less on the 5th. I find her distress really affects me badly and I get very anxious and haven't really enjoyed this half term as just waiting for bangs.

Honestly don't know what to do with my boy. He has been in a state of extreme anxiety now for two days. Diwali mortar type bombs going off all night last night until 5am. He is on a strongest sedative from the vet which doesn't seem to touch him. He claws at my chest and climbs on me if I try to comfort him, he is a strong dog and hurts me. Have no idea what else to do. I feel like next year we will have to hire somewhere remote , but it lasts for weeks.

My Greyhound also gets very anxious. We're far south so have only needed his fleece pyjamas recently but I'm going to cut up a bit of fleece to wrap round him tonight too ...to make something akin to a Thundershirt. A snood doubled up around the ears helps too.

I've tried putting fireworks vids on the telly low than increasing...nothing helps. I just want to ban firework noise forever.

I don't have any pets at the minute but I totally agree with you op. It is so inconsiderate when people do this. There are so many animals who are terrified of the noise. My kids love fireworks so we just take them to the organised displays. Not sure why people feel the need to do their own shit displays at home, even in tiny wee gardens like the ones we tend to have around London.

Sorry for your dogs 😔

Sympathies, it is so awful to see them so terrified. Our last hound would just quiver and pant for hours after hearing fireworks, and cram himself into the smallest space to hide. We tried sedation, but that just made him too dopy to do anything about it. In the end, what helped - a little - was just letting him cuddle up close, and wrapping him up. in his last few years he went pretty deaf, which was a blessing in some ways. Our current hound doesn't give a toss - he sleeps through it all.

We've had public fireworks displays every evening since Friday in our small town, more tonight and tomorrow. Local schools, council, youth groups and charities using them for fundraising so firework night has lasted for 5 days! All within less than a mile of my house.

Feel so sorry for pets and wildlife. Fortunately my GSD isn't scared, he's desperate to go out as soon as the fireworks start and see what's going on. And bark at the noise of course. In between the bangs he watches the sky and patrols the garden checking everything is OK.

I don't usually let him bark in the garden but make an exception when fireworks are going off all around us.

I know its not possible for everyone but we found the perfect solution last night. There was a huge organised display right by our home so we took the dogs in the car up onto the moors, turned up the car stereo and we got to watch the fireworks and our dog who is normally terrified was absolutely fine.

Day 6 here of the bastard fireworks. Poor old greyhound is beside herself. She has tablets (scullcap and valerian) from dorwest, and while that has helped the fireworks this week have left her in a right state. She was even spooked by a chap in a van who slammed his door hard to shut it. I really don't know what to do tonight. She's had her peanut butter on her lick mat, and her tabs, and is in the kitchen listening to classical music, and the washing machine! I hope that these people who are letting these fireworks off are one day as frightened by something as my poor old girl (and others) are .

@MrsPringledusts your poor dog. 6 days is ridiculous! Thankfully my boy is fine for now, he's on the sofa with his relaxing music.

Sorry no idea what Selio is?