Aw, poor Cincy and Huney. I do hope they are mostly over the scare now and do not have any lasting effect from their nasty experiences.
As you may or may not know over here in the UK we have two yearly firework events, the big one is Bonfire Night on November 5 and just over the last few years and to a lesser extent Halloween.
My sons dog is a nervous wreck during this time, he has to have tranquillisers to help. He is a rescue dog and we think he must have been really scared by loud banging noises at some time in his life because he also get scared when there is a pheasant shoot taking place within earshot, his earshot, as we know dogs can hear a lot more than we can.
My Springer Spaniel, Bob, is fine about it all, barely registers at all, but I NEVER let him out in the yard at all, or take him out for a walk, on the actual nights and am careful with him on the weeks leading up and after.
There is good reason for this, children/young people/whoever set up a seemingly never ending barrage from around two weeks before Halloween to about two weeks after Bonfire night. Nearly every night they are out and about letting off the bangs. Besides scaring the elderly and generally driving everyone nuts, countrywide each year there are always lots of cases of animals being hurt. A couple of years ago, just a little distance from where I live, a dog was seriously hurt when it caught a firework thown at it which exploded in its mouth.





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