My dog is so unscared of fireworks we can't let him anywhere near them because the first year he was with us he:
1: Tried to catch a rocket with his mouth as it shot out of the bottle 2: Jumped up and tried to grab a catherine wheel where we'd nailed it to a post 3: Kept trying to grab sparklers.
It's funny how much more annoying they get the older you get, the odd huge banger sends my dog into mad-dog mode, can't imagine how loud it must be for her poor girl.
Not read the thread but in my opinion BAN sale of fireworks, organised displays only.
Anyone who has animals would agree to this. Have two dogs, and one is nervous all evening, even when they stop, she is still waiting for them to start again, been going on since Wednesday and will probably go on for another night or two. How I wished for torrential rain in the evening.
I haven't bought fireworks since the kids grew up (well, got old enough to get their own). It's not something I miss that much, but when I hear all the miserable old gits moaning about them it makes me want to rush out and set off a load of bangers - all wired up to a Marshall stack system.
And its more like a month.. Myyyrrerr (old git) driving loki bonkers
I back onto Sutherland, thought its been the quietest for years . My old dog who died couple years back now was literally in a coma from October to January because of fireworks .
Dogs are pack animals, they will look up to their owner as leader of the pack and pick up behavioural traits from you. If your dog is scared of fireworks then instead of letting it cower, stand up in the middle of the room, stand tall, look confident, thump your chest...act like pack leader and they will follow and be ok with it.
Dogs are pack animals, they will look up to their owner as leader of the pack and pick up behavioural traits for you. If your dog is scared of fireworks then instead of letting it cower, stand up in the middle of the room, stand tall, look confident, thump your cheat...act like pack leader and they will follow and be ok with it.
Thanks for that, so what you saying is if I hide behind my chair I shouldn't be surprised if my dogs do? And if your dogs are not scared, but think every bang, crash or fecking whizz bang is someone coming into the house and are in danger of hurting theirselves protecting us. Then what is your advice?
^ can't help you with that TCE as I have never owned a dog just basically repeated what an expert at the Brockley Park country fair was telling everyone this summer... Lol!
And the wife reckons I look fecking ridiculous standing in the middle of the lounge thumping my chest while stripped to my y fronts (for added affect) showing my dogs who's pack leader.
Me? All is good here, watching the Dirty Dozen with my wife surrounded by our dogs and even Charlton won. So life in the T.C.E household couldn't be much better.
Admittedly as a grumpy old man, I have observed a lack of control nowadays. When I was young, bonfire night was on 5 November, whether it be a weekday, raining or clear. We did it properly, making our guy and building a bonfire and letting off cheap fireworks in the garden, followed by sausages and jacket potatoes with a catherine wheel cake for desert. Now everything starts early and goes on forever. Dogs hate it and rather than having to put up with it for a day, pet owners have to put up with upset animals for months. We live in a me me me society, so who cares!
And the most we ever did for halloween was bob for a few apples at school, and watch horror movies on the tv. Nobody knew what trick or treating was.
It is the same with Christmas. It seems to have started already. I remember when companies couldn't show a Christmas ad on the tv until 1 December. Christmas is less magical when it starts in September - that is the sad fact.
Basically, it is about self control. An attribute that nobody today seems to care too much about!
No laughing matter when gangs are letting off fireworks next to the bus stop you're standing at. But we are talking Woolwich here. And that was last Saturday.
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1: Tried to catch a rocket with his mouth as it shot out of the bottle
2: Jumped up and tried to grab a catherine wheel where we'd nailed it to a post
3: Kept trying to grab sparklers.
Bloody hooligan.
Now he just dozes through the whole thing.
The fact that they are complete and utter CNUTS?
downtown BeruitFalconwoodMy old dog who died couple years back now was literally in a coma from October to January because of fireworks .
All is good here, watching the Dirty Dozen with my wife surrounded by our dogs and even Charlton won. So life in the T.C.E household couldn't be much better.
And the most we ever did for halloween was bob for a few apples at school, and watch horror movies on the tv. Nobody knew what trick or treating was.
It is the same with Christmas. It seems to have started already. I remember when companies couldn't show a Christmas ad on the tv until 1 December. Christmas is less magical when it starts in September - that is the sad fact.
Basically, it is about self control. An attribute that nobody today seems to care too much about!
In the meantime, it's an unusual celebration of a foiled attempt to overthrow the monarchy, (driven by religious differences).
The UK is now a country that many want to settle in, to escape the violence in their own countries (driven by religious differences).