Inside, outside, leave me alone!

[lizblackdog]

Fucking wankbastard pissmonkey neighbours have been letting off sodding fireworks every fucking night for a week now. Tonight's performance is a. coming from somewhere within 100 yards of the flats and b. includes a lot of those shrill whistling screeching ones - which means I'm typing this with a distraught collie in my lap. And it's going to carry on like this till after New Year now. It's going to be a fucking long winter.

Please excuse and ignore earlier bout of whining. It's as resolved as it's ever going to get. Thank you to everyone who cared.

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[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh God, the fireworks! When I was a girl, we let off fireworks on Nov 5th, and that was it! And now it goes on for months. Little fuckers. Trying to housetrain my puppies three years ago at this time of year was a nightmare - we'd be in the graden, me encouraging them to go, and then a banger would go off and they'd leg it for the house, terrified. Now all they do is rush outside barking everytime they hear one, which is trying enough.

When I rule the world, fireworks will be illegal except on certain specified national holidays. Let 'em off any other time and it'd be banger up the arse time.

I'm glad the other stuff is sorted out...

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I'm voting for you to rule the world any damn time now. Can I be Minister for Worldly Pleasures?

[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

I can't think of a better person to do it!

I forgot to mention... the banger up the arse is also for anyone who does that sort of thing to stray animals at this time of year.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

That goes without saying. And I'll happily be the one to light the blue touch paper, too.

[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

So that's Ministry of Pleasures and Ministry of Correction I can put you down for, then?

Heh. There's a world of funny in that.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Not to mention appropriate :-D

It just got even better - I took the pair of them out for a piss, and a big green one went off right over our heads. Spike decided it must be Squish's fault - he was closest. Luckily Squish has learned how to do proper submission signals now or I'd have had a dogfight on my hands.

So now I have two upset dogs. Bah.

[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

My dogs totally do that when they're pissed off with something other than each other. But none of them feel submissive, so it ususally involves me wading in shouting.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's terriers for you - Squish isn't an especially submissive dog himself, but he understands the concept of a chain of command. Besides, Spike scares the piss out of him when he's angry.

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

I have the feeling that there's some sort of strange British ritual I'm unaware of involved here.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to be about Guy Fawkes (http://www.bonefire.org/guy/bonfire.php) and it's supposed to happen on the 5th of November. But the same forces that now make Christmas start in September have stretched it over the years, and nowadays you can count on fireworks every damn weekend and most weeknights from now till after New Year.

Dogs don't, in my experience, get any less upset over it just because it happens every night, either.

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes... I've heard of Guy Fawkes Day, but that's utterly stupid with the fireworks and all.

Trying to comfort upset dogs is no fun. :(

[bites-the-sun.livejournal.com]

Ergh, they've been at it round here since the end of August, on and off. Tossers.

I'd ban the sale of firewords except for organised displays and for the week before Nov 5th. It sounds like bloody Bosnia round here when they get going. It's not fair on pet owners or people who don't like to spend entire evenings listening to explosions.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Yep. Spike is trembling on my lap and it's very awkward to type round him... I think the RSPCA did succeed in having the law changed in some way - they restricted the sales or something - but I can't see that it's made a great lot of difference.

[the-reader.livejournal.com]

That does rather suck. The pub near us in Lancashire has a dreadful habit of having a firework display every time something even vaguely worth celebrating happens - you know, Christmas, Easter, England qualifying for the World Cup, the Queen sneezing - and our cat's terrified of bangers. Nearly has a heart attack with every one, poor girl :/

[mandrakescreams.livejournal.com]

Our local council have set up a phoneline specifically for reporting firework nuisances, I wonder if yours might have done something similar? Could be worth looking into especially if its really distressing the dogs.

Its a total nightmare around here,particularly this weekend because its Diwali.
Bex xxx

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

*quick look*

All I can find is a number to report if they're being sold to under-18s - nothing about over 18s making my life miserable with them. Bloody tourist towns.

[mandrakescreams.livejournal.com]

What a pain!
Best start looking out for earplugs for yourself and the dogs then;)
xx

[entorien.livejournal.com]

Where I live, we've had fireworks at just about any time of the year. Damn kids with nothing better to do! Although, we also have an army firing range nearby, so we've stopped hearing the quieter bangs. We have a small patch of grass adjacent to our back garden, when they let off fireworks there it's deafening, luckily the cat seems not to notice. (the lack of I.Q. probably helps, although he's cleverer than the ones letting off the damn bangers!)

[eastman23.livejournal.com]

I hate the screeching fireworks. Too much noise, not enough light. Sooooooo boring.

Sorry about the dogs too. I know our previous dog got really wound up when there was fireworks in town. One of my parents always made sure to stay with him to try to keep him calm.

[ulva.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately banning fireworks doesn't do much good either. A few years ago we finally got the law everyone was asking for: unless you have a police permit, no fireworks for you mate. However, people must have been stockpiling and the retailers doesn't seem to check up the papers they should so it's still the same nuisance here in December and January. Luckily mr Fawkes was British so we escape that and down here in south of Sweden there's no fireworks at Valborg (April 30^th) as up north (which of course is an excuse to pop em bastards all of April and May).

[santaman.livejournal.com]

Fireworks are only allowed 2 days a year, old years day/evening and new years day and thats it, the fines are high enough to prevent idiots from breaking this law..

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I'm coming to live with you...

[(Anonymous)]

so why is there fireworks anyway?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

They've started selling them in stores now for November 5th and also Hallowe'en... and for a lot of people the fact that they're on sale is enough excuse to start baning away like mad.