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Ps I hope this helpsThe best way I've dealt with fireworks with dogs is to distract them with treats or something better immediately after the big bangs and they remember the good "bribes" after the nasty bangs and bright lights.
Far better than trying to keep them away from it, I think.
I saw a bloke out with an elderly dog one night, about ten years ago, during the peak of the firework obsession - it does seem to have faded over recent years. The sky was ablaze with explosions and the noise was bizarre, but the dog was utterly unperturbed. I felt it necessary to comment on this and was told "Actually, he likes to watch them, that's why I've had to come out, he likes to sit at the top of Prospect Road for a good view".Our two current dogs don't seem to mind the odd firework. One dog I had in the past used to get very very stressed until one year a firework went of unexpectedly (it was nowhere near GF night) when we were on a walk and she realised that along with the bang, there were also pretty lights in the sky. She was fine after that as long as she could see the lights that went with the bang.
Otherwise, loud music or loud telly or head up to the Chase.
Not many do now, but don't believe the hype, it's not because they want to protect animals.... Its because they don't want to pay for the licence or the training that the staff have to have to sell them..... It's all about COST.It's the supermarkets who push them and they're selling them for weeks before and after.
Not many do now, but don't believe the hype, it's not because they want to protect animals.... Its because they don't want to pay for the licence or the training that the staff have to have to sell them..... It's all about COST.
Ps I hope this helps
The level of random firework activity has definitely been dropping for a few years now, fairly steadily over the last decade. It used to start around the end of September and run virtually daily until the second half of January.Not many do now, but don't believe the hype, it's not because they want to protect animals.... Its because they don't want to pay for the licence or the training that the staff have to have to sell them..... It's all about COST.
Oh right. Well, I imagine rules do change and last year I didn't really visit the big stores. But I think it is about time they were outlawed for all except professional displays.
Of course, Aldi and Lidl both don't sell tobacco, again largely for cost reasons, I suppose.
Sainsbury stopped selling them over a year ago.Read that Sainsburys have banned sales of them, ASDA have changed to sell low noise. ALDI on the other hand have done nothing except say that they are clear that animals should be kept indoors, erm, does the sound not travel through glass then? they should visit my dog who has spent much of the day upstairs hiding after last night.
Needless to say I'm not setting foot in ALDI again.