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For the last week my neighbors have been lighting off fireworks. Not a ton but enough to scare the shit out of my dog making him hide under my desk.
Stanley is a beast of a dog even if he has very short, stubby legs. He takes up a lot of room and there are a lot of cables and cords under there. Cables and cords which he gets tangled in because he is a tard and scared.
I understand that people are excited about lighting things on fire and watching them go BOOM. But for the love of all things I NEED TO GET SOME FLIPPING WORK DONE please knock it the fuck off!
Yesterday, Stanley tried to wedge himself between the tower and my desk, he didn’t fit because there is only about two inches between the two. He settled for squishing himself up to the tower (because I refused to let him under the desk) and ended up turning off the computer because he was pressed against the power button. Thank God for auto save but I still had to reboot, which takes what seems like hours.
I’ve been tripping over the damn dog for over a week and now he has decided that he must go to the bathroom with me. My bathroom is tiny, there is not room for a person and a dog in there. He doesn’t care. He is willing himself to be small so he can fit into little spaces, presumably so the fireworks monster can’t find him.
I love my country, I love my dog, but I need to get some work done so if you could all please go blow your stash off somewhere else, like in the next state, I would sincerely appreciate it
Hey, don't send them my way!
Holly, where did you come from? Where is your blog? The URL didn't load so I can't visit.
I'm having the same thing in my neighborhood. I expected it on July 4th, but apparently half price fireworks are even more exciting to them!
And they will be fun all summer long as they keep getting discounted.
Hey, can you come back and tell me where your blog is? It didn't load with my comment system. Thanks.
Quiet here! There were fireworks/firecrackers going off on the 4th until around 11:30 and that was it. I am sorry for your dog and hope it quiets down soon. One of our cats is afraid of thunder. This is a cat that spent his life outside until a couple years ago. Now he runs for the basement when it starts to thunder.
I didn't know cats got worked up about noisy things but I guess they do. Sorry to hear about that, it's scary for the animals.
We have this every year, twice a year, and my cats are terrified. Sukie disappears for about a fortnight, only creeping out when she thinks it's all stopped, to rush back into her hidy hole until the next false lull in the noise. My sister has tranquilizers for her dog, though they don't seem to stop the terror. She pees herself with fear!
Are you going to make me look up 'fortnight'? I think it's two days, is that right? Tranquilizers and she still pees? That sucks.
A fortnight is two weeks. I guess you don't say that then 🙂
I knew it was 2 something. No, we don't say that. We don't speak Shakespeare
like you guys do. They couldn't even teach us the metric system so a
fortnight would never fly.
Ha ha! I'm learning so much lately. And I thought we were basically the same language wise. Except for 'fanny'
We sometimes say 'fanny'. You're talking about the butt right? The whole
chips/fries thing screws me up.
Oh yeah. We say crisps and you say chips. We say chips and you say fries. A bit confusing.
My neighbors do the same thing–at times setting off Thunder Bombs (like artillery shells) that explode over my house. I have a phobia of loud noises, so they disturb me and the dawg that barks and shakes. AND it is illegal in this area to set off fireworks. I so hate the 4th of July weekend!!!
I don't mind the noise that much but the effect it has on the dog drives me crazy. I don't get the thrill of lighting off bottle rockets and M-80s, they don't make pretty colors in the sky so what is the point? It must be a guy thing.
Aw, sorry about your pooch. And sorry you can't get anything done. This too shall pass. At least no one started any fires. No one did, right?
Couple summers ago, some kids shot off their potato shotguns and started a fire in the woods near us. Fun.
We've had so much rain I don't think anything can catch fire, so that is good. Fires scare me but potato shotguns are fun.
Poor Stanley! Harry is just as bad. He starts panting, drooling, and wanting to sit on my lap. Or he will squeeze his big butt on to a shelf in the linen closet. The fireworks terrorize him. And excuse me, they are ILLEGAL here! It's one thing to go through the one night of it, but then for two weeks before and after the 4th, they keep going off. Did I mention it's illegal here?
They used to be illegal here, and the ones everyone is shooting off probably are, but some are allowed. Like sparklers and stink bombs. Poor Harry, he had a great vacation, all relaxed and now it's gone.
We're now awaiting riots in Oakland (right across the bridge from where I live) because of the verdict in the Oscar Grant shooting. A transit cop shot and killed an unarmed African American on New Years Eve. The cop said he thought he had his taser gun, but pulled his actual gun. The jury found it to be involuntary manslaughter. This may be a very long night for Harry.
We goats don't like fireworks either. In fact, I am embarrassed to admit that there were several stampedes over the weekend. I am further embarrassed to admit that there may have been stampeding OVER the publicist.
She is not happy with the neighbors and their fireworks.
Nor is she thrilled with hoof shaped bruises. Even the teeny, tiny ones.
The poor, poor publicist, she has had a time of it lately. Give her a break okay?
the animals do get freaked. our garfield hid somewhere all night. so he got no dinner. in the morning, he body slammed me in the driveway because he was trying to catch me to get some food before i left. wait wait wait !!! i need food !!!
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Thanks for the nudge Marie, I needed that. Stanley hasn't been eating much since the 4th either, he's fine, has a little extra meat so he isn't starving but it tells me how upset he is.
LOL Ever since moving to Florida we've seen more fireworks then we ever did before. Our neighbors are the same way. We went to my parents house in Jacksonville for the 4th this year and didn't even have to leave their house to watch fireworks. We sat in their backyard (they love in a lagoon with houses all around it) and people were setting them off everywhere. We've been home since Monday and our neighbors keep setting them off too. Driving me nuts! (and our dog who keeps barking every night now)
I expect them in town, we live right near the area where they put on a huge display and can watch a great show from out backyard. I don't expect the neighbors to continue to light them off during the middle of the day, night maybe but not during the week at lunch time, doesn't anyone work?
Dogs are such pussies.
I do have the same problem with my damn cats. Can't go to the bathroom without one of them trying to squeeze in the door before I shut it. And now my 2 year old pulls the same stunt.
Maybe I need to install a bar and foldup seating. It'll be tight and smelly but apparently the bathroom is the new party pad.
Come on, bring Stanley with ya! (Oh, and we've got gunshots instead of fireworks….those guys don't look at the calendar when shooting off their junk.)
My cat could care less, about anything, but the dog is going to worry
himself a short life if he doesn't learn to mellow out. I think gunshots
would be the end of him.
I don't know how it would work with your dog, but with horses who spook easily we often stick a wad of cotton in their ears. It might help your pooch. Otherwise, you can give him a small dose of Children's Benydral (preferably unflavored). It will have an antihistamine effect of making him a little drowsy and therefore relaxed. Call your vet for the exact dose for your dog's size.
Poor little guy.
Thank you, I'd never thought to drug him but that makes perfect sense. I
don't think the cotton would work, he seems to feel them coming and gets
nervous before they actually make noise, same with thunder. I'm gonna call
my vet, thanks!
They're still going off here, too. My kids use that as an excuse to stay up till midnight every night. Why go to sleep? The fireworks will just wake them up. I hate all holidays!
I think it's finally stopped here and now we're just down to random gunfire every few nights, as it should be.
I”m totally with you on this one. I hate that random pop-popping shit. Sometimes I'm tempted to add a little pop-popping of my own–but from something with a little more kick than a firecracker.
We have a day in the UK called guy Fawkes night, where fireworks are set off to celebrate his failed attemp to blow up parliament. My dog is also scared shitless, so in the morning I take him a walk around the neighbourhood and he leaves some presents on the ignorant assholes nice lawns.
Poor doggie. Everyone here hates those darn fireworks too. They should be banned by private people and only used in parks etc. Some horses go totally nuts and hurt themselves. Anyway, it is all over for now, thank heavens.I am with you, go blow the darn stash somewhere else.
My neighbors do that fireworks thing too. But this year they got arrested on the day of the 4th and they're not home yet. Who knows what happened, but I don't care. I have piece and quiet. Ahhh!!!
Poor doggie. Stupid neighbors…
I don't think fireworks are legal to sell in our province, but yeah, it would be really annoying. Plus, they're super dangerous to handle. People like blowing shit up until they get hurt.
Do we have the same friggen neighbors? Ours started setting off fireworks last night around 9:30. They did it right under the power line. Hello? I’d like to get some sleep AND not get blown to pieces thanks.
Blowing things up is a fundamental right of all God-fearing Patriotic Americans, and now that the Obamination has so restricted the rules of engagement where we could blow up terrorists, the only place we can do our duty is outside your window. Vote Republican in November, and next year we'll be blowing up things from Africa to Asia, and your dog won't be crapping on your shoes.
OMG same with my dog. I have a Basenji who walks around like he owns the house and a real tough guy. HA, once someone lights a firecracker or he hears lightning he is nothing but a lap full of shivering mess.
My parents have similar neighbors, but my parents live out in the middle of nowhere so it's to be expected. You live in town and this is still happening? Unacceptable.
Of course, my parents have to put up with the yahoos riding around on ATVs at all times of the day and night.
Fireworks are like jokes… fun the first time, but not over and over and over and over again…
dumb ass neighbors! send em to Canada!
The 4th was always my most hated holiday when I had a dogger. Poor Stanley.
How's your dog doing? What did the vet say about giving him something?
LOL! I feel for Stanley; half the time they scare the shit out of ME. I dislike the 4th because of people who don't think fireworks are enough for them and need to fire off their guns instead. Awesome.
That would REALLY piss me off too. Ugh. People can be sofa king rude. I think I would be hiding under a desk after listening to all those fireworks.