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Everyone commenting seems to be missing your point. Regardless how people feel about pets and fireworks, people should be aware that the 4th of July revelry can be extremely difficult for some veterans suffering from PTSD. There’s one I know personally who was in combat in Iraq and saw really terrible things. You can tell talking to him it deeply effects him to this day. I think of it a lot when I hear illegal fireworks. At least with the official fireworks shows they know when to expect it. The illegal fireworks are just random out of the blue and could easily trigger a PTSD episode. Maybe the guy in the screenshot talking about patriotism should consider that.
I think it just comes down to being a basic considerate human being. Shoot all the fireworks you like if you’re not at risk of bugging anyone. I live on the edge of town in a mostly commercial district so around the 4th I’ll fire off whatever but if I lived in a neighborhood I’d either leave town or not buy fireworks. Pretty easy stuff.
As a Veteran who has PTSD and does not do well on 4th of July. I fought for people’s freedom. Let them enjoy their fireworks and I’ll stay on my farm fat away taking care of my turkeys who also hate fireworks.
Who had their freedom threatened?
Iraqis. Look up Saddam. Then look up AQ. There’s a reason the local militias ended up working with us instead of against us.
Look up how many Iraqis were fucking killed by America and tell me how those hundreds of thousands of corpses are so fucking free now.
Not everyone can do that. A form of entrainment doesn’t override the right for someone now to experience ptsd episodes in their own home.
There is being considerate of other’s life experiences and then there is being unreasonable. There’s so many things that can trigger PTSD in people, are you suggesting we stop doing anything that may trigger someone’s trauma? Some people get triggers from benign things (my mother used to suffer traumatic flashbacks from certain smells such as wet mud, I get panic attacks if someone comes up behind me and touches me, I’ve met someone who gets triggered by cars backfiring or balloons popping). The point is that fireworks, mud, people touching you, and backfiring cars are a part of normal life. There are a TONNE of possible triggers, we couldn’t possibly avoid every one of them for every sufferer out there. It isn’t up to the rest of the world to change their lives to revolve around us and our issues. It’s our own responsibility to try to cope and deal with our problems as best we can. It sucks. I say this as someone who suffers from severe PTSD/agoraphobia among a number of other mental health issues that I have been working on for many years. It’s really unfair that this has happened to us but it’s also not fair to expect everyone else in the neighbourhood to stop having fun because we are sadly conditioned to have a traumatic response to something.
Imagine having so much money you can buy a bunch of explosives and set em off for fun. Might as well just set the money on fire.
Yeah this 20 bucks worth of bottle rockets and Roman candles was really putting me into the next tax bracket over here.
You’re downvoted, but I laughed. Imagine not being okay with someone else enjoying something you don’t.
Really don’t get people sometimes but I guess we’re in the minority here
Fireworks are illegal in my city but people light them off constantly for NYE, sports, 4th etc. I wish people respected the law, but it is also annoying to hear all the whining about scared fur babies.
Personal fireworks are illegal in my city as well. I personally love that everyone collectively says nahhhh we are going to do it anyways.
I don’t set any off but I enjoy watching people have fun and it tends to be a pretty good show.
I don’t really like lighting fireworks myself but even i am SO tired of the anual “PeOpLe WhO dO FiReWoRkS aRe AwFuLl bEcAuSe PeTs ArE ScArEd”
I mean, if you know your dog is scared of fireworks, then you should just get your dog some ear muffs and some treats and chill with em until the fireworks are over, give em love so that they learn that it’s nothing bad.
If you complain about something that doesn’t directly affect your dog, but your not willing to train your dog or put in the effort and love to help it, then you are a bad dog owner.
Don’t blame the doggos, and don’t blame the people minding their own business not hurting anyone, life isn’t supposed to be super easy no problems 24/7.
Tried all of that. Only thing that works is basically drugging my dog up with tramadol until they pass out.
Many animals just don’t do well with fireworks and no amount of positive reinforcement will ever remedy it. It is what it is.
Nah, can’t scroll past this one without commenting - because so many things that have been said matter of factly are just plain wrong.
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Dogs just like people have their own personalities, just because SOME dogs can be trained to ignore fireworks, it does not mean ALL dogs can be - some dogs - just like people, suffer from various anxieties, it can’t be helped.
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The main point you seem to be missing - yes you can stay in and chill with your pooch on the ACTUAL day that fireworks are expected to be going off, but what you cannot do - is stay in and chill with your pooch for weeks before and weeks after the actual day, because people randomly decide to let them off.
The fact that you brand everyone a bad dog owner if their dog cannot tolerate fireworks though, is the thing that made me need to comment, what a stupid thing to say. That’s like saying that if your child suffers from anxiety then you are a bad parent.
Exactly. Letting off fireworks days early is awful. It’s even worse when the city bans them, yet people don’t care.
Most of the people I’ve known with anxiety did have bad parents.
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The people round here love their fireworks. There was a whole ass fireworks show in the fire clearing right down the street. It’s almost every night in summer, pretty large aerial fireworks going off, particularly bad the weeks leading up to and after the 4th.
It’s annoying af. But I’m used to it, and I don’t really have a say in what those people do with their summer nights, nor do I want to.
Taking care of a dog is tough. It’s like a child, especially a puppy. I have cats. But always had dogs growing up. I’m still unsure if I want to take the plunge, cause my cat is super needy and will probably hate me lol
