How's your dog or pets doing on Bonfire night's

[soulman101]

I say nights, because we had fireworks going of last night and will no doubt have them on Sunday.
Our Bella is doing ok, when we got her 8 years ago this January. At the puppy class they gave us a cd,with noises on like loud cars,drills and fireworks etc. We had to play this very low hardly audible to us and it has worked.
Both our Lassie dogs used shake with fear, our Tess run upstairs and got in the wardrobe.

[DaveP67 is back!]

Our dog is Bella also, she’s 9 now and every year it’s worse on bonfire night, shaking like a leaf and panting for dear life, the dog classics on classic FM seem to help a bit.

[mickd1961]

My cat Chloe couldn’t give a single s h I t!

She’s nearly 16 and very streetwise and cool.

[soulman101]

My cat Chloe couldn’t give a single s h I t!

She’s nearly 16 and very streetwise and cool.

That's good, thumbs up for Chloe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxjYFvjYIc8

[kettering_baggie]

My dog is going nuts at the wretched fireworks, getting very distressed. I would like some of these people to have the fireworks shoved up their @rses. You want fireworks, go to an organised event, specific time and all done in about twenty minutes.

[baggieal]

Dog getting very distressed! Should only be allowed on one night!

[WBA1955]

Our cat came from Smethwick originally and like Mick's very streetwise and unfazed. Our dog used to be terrified but now he's 16 and deaf so it doesn't bother him either.

[Pugmitch]

We are very lucky…….we live in a rural village and fortunately have no anti social tw*ts setting off fireworks every day prior to Bonfire Night. The local Young Farmers hold an organised event with bonfire and a spectacular fireworks display. This is right outside my back garden!
I have a French bulldog who actually enjoys watching the fireworks and sits there marvelling at all the noise. My two pugs sleep through the whole thing and wake up when the noise stops!
As it happens both these and all my previous dogs were trained to get used to loud noises……never had a problem

[Omegstrat6]

Only talking about this yesterday. Our 6 year old boxer/mastif cross doesn't like them, big as he is. He was ok when he was younger and even used to like watching them but the year before last some-one was letting them off over the road and they were very loud and it went on for a while. His hackles now go up and he barks aggressively before turning into a wuss and hiding in our sons room under a blanket!

Tbh I think that fireworks should not be sold to the public any more and only be allowed to be set off at registered/licenced displays and then only on bonfire night itself or Diwali or New years Eve and maybe restricted to between just 7pm and 10pm or up to midnight for New Year. I know if sounds very kill-joy/Victor Meldrew-ish, but even with the far tighter sales controls in place today it is still too easy for idiots to get hold of them. This year a 12 year old set off a firework on the top deck of a local bus causing all sorts of disruption. Luckily no-one was hurt and his mates did themselves no favours by recording it all on their phones so he was soon caught. These things still happen too regularly and have done for a while. I vividly remember when my daughter was young she was playing outside with her mates and this 15 year old lad deliberately threw a firework at them then ran off. The girls were exceptionally lucky not to get seriously hurt and were very shaken. About 20 minutes later this woman comes around literally dragging the little scrote by the ear. She had caught him trying to tie a firework to the tail of her elderly next door neighbours cat having already shoved a banger through the letterbox. Some kids had told her about what he had done here so she dragged him round. When I questioned him and pointed out that he could have seriously injured my daughter he got all cocky and did the dumb insolence routine. At this point I lost it and put the little sh it against the wall and all his bravado suddenly disappeared. Luckily for him the Police turned up. He complained that I'd assaulted him (to which all the neighbours claimed not to have seen anything) and I felt a bit -just a bit mind!-guilty that I'd nearly taken his head off so confessed to the officers. Turned out that this was the third time he had done something like this over the bonfire night period so, fortunately for me, they didn't pay much attention to any assault charge and bundled him into the back of the police car.

It's not only idiots like this lad though, there are also those who don't pay much attention to the health and safety risks involved with fireworks and the resultant injuries can not only scar them or others for life but also put un-necessary pressure on fire and ambulance services that are already under the cosh with cut backs. Think most fire officers would be quite happy for fireworks not to be sold to the general public but only to licenced events.

[Albionic68]

Ought to be renamed Scare the Living Sh it Out of People's Pets Night.