ok i confess, i love fireworks, especially catherine wheels and sparklers.
but tonight, its just awful, the war of the worlds seems to have arrived.
why do fireworks have to be so so so loud these days?
or am i just getting old?
Libby
I have a friend who lives up the road and has a flock of sheep, chickens, horses and a dog and 2 years ago the village started holding its own bonfire and fireworks display, she is up in arms about it and says it should't happen in the country but to be honest since then we have less individual fireworks around here so it has to be good......... I think!!!
muntjac
no ur not old ,, just """"""""" jarred off same as me , i have pheasants and chickens crapping eggs . rocket rubbish falling around me . why dont they stop selling them so bl**dy early , 24th octtober is way to early , this is going to nearly 12 days afore this year passes .
Cabbagepatch
If it is just for tonight then thats great, but I fear this will go on for several more days.
However, why do fireworks have to sound like exploding bombs these days?
Haize
Is it worse everywhere else recently too? I just thought the almost constant fireworks was because I was in a city, as it was never this constant in the town I lived in before.
I really really love fireworks, I used to be a lot more mad about them, but if they are saved for only a couple of days a year, they stay a lot more special. I'd say a few large organised displays are a good thing too: far more efficient than a thousand much smaller ones.
Becki
Last night it was going on from 6 - midnight gone. Havn't seen my cat yet.
Leonie2
I don't mind fireworks, however I can understand the problems experienced by animal and pet owners, but I don't think you'd stop fireworks altogether. It does irritate me when they go on and on, yes fine, celebrate on the 5th or the nearest weekend to that date, but I know they'll be getting set off next weekend still. I also think it's better to organise gathered events, clubs, councils etc. so we all have a handful of big properly organised events rather than hundreds of little backyard fireworks running throughout the evening for days on end. Keep the sparklers and quiet fireworks for backyards and let the professionals organise the big events. That way the noisy ones will be all let off within a few hours of each other and over one weekend, and then that's it, all over and done with.
lottie
Last year I worried silly about my newly arrived chickens - but they survived. I think they might go into a deep sleep. The fact that we have gunshot during the day too probably helps - they don't bat an eyelid at that when it happens in the field not 200 feet from us!
But you should see the pheasants in our garden or on our hedges
Guest
Max is terrified!
he looks so brave too!
Bless!
Keeping an eye on him!
Becki
My cat is out again and I can't find her.
Did see her this afternoon though, so I'm not too worried.
Kathy
Sorry, don't like them. Total waste of money, serving no useful purpose other than to make people go "Oooooohhhhh, Ahhhhhhhhhhhh", not to mention the havoc caused to animals, both wild and domestic.
I bowed to pressure and took offspring to an organised affair years ago, rocket shot sideways across the park, singeing Coco's ear and burning Greenlady's thumb, not nice.
Keeping an eye on him!