Fireworks..

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Ugh. I can't stand my neighbors.

They have already started shooting off fireworks for the 4th Of July. My dogs are absolutely TERRIFIED of fireworks. So far, they've only shot off one, but now Molly is cowering under my computer desk.

Gee, I can't wait until it's actually the 4th Of July. It'll be lovely.

Sorry, just a small rant..

How do your dog(s) react towards fireworks?

[Bigyummydog]

Barking and running crazy. I love fireworks, but I can't wait for it to be over.

[gemini9961]

I'm not too sure about mine, they have never really been around them. Sadie would probably be scared.

[MariaM]

Major barks and barks and gets scared. I hate when people go to the school yard (not even a block away) and set them off.

[robinh]

HATE them! We live in the outside the city limits in a small group of houses and we have a couple of families in the development who have full fledged displays. Drives my dogs crazy. They wear themselves out being so upset over the booms and the lights. Last year we resorted to keeping them in the basement with movies running so they couldn't hear the noise. We also had to call the sheriff when these idiots kept shooting off the fireworks well after midnight.

[chrissycat21]

I'm not going to be home on July 4. Snowy is going to be with her dog parents and sister. I'm not sure how she is when she hears the fireworks when she is with them, though.

When she hears fireworks she normally hides. She has spent the night curled up on a pile of magazines in the middle of a cabinet where no one could get to her. She has also wedged herself behind the toilet and onto a shelf in my closet. (The shelf was kind of like a basket type thing)

[Kfamr]

You know how mine are.


Nala is scared by the simplest sounds. She's scared when people pop their gum. (I don't blame her cause it's annoying ) But, Fireworks terrify her. Sometimes she gets sick over it.

Simba gets scared of them as well. He usually starts to shake.


I'm not sure how Kiki will act. I don't think she knows what to think about some things so she just follows what Nala does. Like the other day it thundered and lightning REALLY loud, louder than it ever has. Kiara just kind of looked around and then followed Nala into the bedroom.



I really loved fireworks until I got dogs.

[k9krazee]

Shadow and Mini HATE them, they will run and hide.

Micki, I swear he was a fireman in a past life or something, he is a little pyro and is obsessed with lighters, fire, fireworks. When a firework is lit he trys to go after it barking crazily and then just stares at it. And if you have a lighter he knows that you will light fireworks and gets really really excited and jumps up and down.

I'm not really sure how Kyra and Jack will act, this will be their first 4th of July.

[Daisy and Delilah]

It doesn't bother Daisy at all. Delilah is absolutely terrified! She is a wreck the entire summer because every little noise bothers her after the thunderstorms and fireworks start. She pants real hard, plasters her tail between her legs, hides in the bathroom with no windows, and sometimes she tries to get into places too small for her because she panics. It's horrible to see her go through this. We tried everything for her but ended up using Valium(unfortunately) because nothing else would work. Her vet recommended it and it's the only thing that works. We can't wait for July 4th to be over but there will still be fireworks somewhere and of course the thunder is almost every day too. She is like Kay's Nala, even gum popping scares her but the night of the 4th is like putting her in a torture chamber. We have neighbors that undoubtedly buy hundreds of dollars worth of firecrackers, bottle rockets, etc. It seems to be non-stop noise around here.

[KYS]

I love professional controlled fireworks which go off
consecutively for 1 night only.
I do not like it when the neighbors shoot them off which
is against the law for safety reasons.
Both my dogs hate all fireworks so I stay home on the 4th to
be with them.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Tobey's first encounter with them was good - in fact, he sat on the garden wall watching them! Not sure how he'll react this year but I do sympathise with everyone who suffers. My Aunty's dog becomes an absolute nervous wreck, poor baby

[lv4dogs]

Nanook gets scared, he's glued to my side, panting, drooling & shaking.
Raustyk could care less.

[finn's mom]

I wish I could remember where I read about dogs and fireworks. I don't know that Finn has ever really heard the before. I don't think it was legal or something to just set them off wherever you wanted where I was living in Texas. Maybe I'm wrong. And, I didn't take him anywhere there was going to be a big show.

I'm not sure what it'll be like here, but, so far, nothing else has scared him. But, in his puppy class, since he was about nine weeks old, we did stuff like dropping metal chairs on the floor as he would walk by, I popped balloons at home, things like that. He would flinch the first couple of times, but, now stuff like that doesn't usually phase him. And, we have had some bad thunderstorms, and, we just sit out on the balcony together and watch and listen.

But, yeah, there's a book I read part of that had at least a page or something about some dogs that were terrified of fireworks. I wanna say it was the dog listener. But, don't quote me on that.

[elizabethann]

Fenway hates fireworks. He hides under the bed with one of my cats. My other cat sits in the window to watch the display.

[ramanth]

So far no one has been shooting off fireworks nearby (at least not while I'm home).

Kia is not bothered by most of them. She'll just lay there and once in awhile raise her head. The only ones that seem to bother her are the ones that sound like cannons.