Nearly 4pm & rednecks are starting with their obnixious fireworks

[SheltieLover]

[Harker]

1. Plenty of gunfire here in upstate NY.

I need an Ace bandage thundershirt, and so does Tosca!

We'll both be hiding in the bathtub if this keeps up.

[SheltieLover]

2. Oh gawd...

[enid602]

3. fingers

The rednecks who have fewer fingers than teeth are the worse offenders.

[SheltieLover]

4. ...

[chouchou]

5. Oh Yes. The Florida Hillbillies are starting to make sure that the pets..

..are terrified from now until tomorrow at 3:40 AM.
My husband used to have rocketry as a hobby. I had to talk him down from his anger.
"Honey, you can't put that stuff in the nose cone and send it over to the Smiths"

[SheltieLover]

7. Lol

[JoseBalow]

6. My neighborhood is pretty good about waiting until dark

Then the shit goes on until 2am

[SheltieLover]

8. At least it doesn't go half the day & into the wee hours

[JoseBalow]

9. True, it could be worse for sure.

It's also kind of a mixed blessing that my old dog is growing a bit deaf lately. It thankfully doesn't bother her as much as it used to.

[Harker]

10. Tosca is an 8 year old Siberian Husky.

One gunshot or firework explosion I get a glum, penetrating stare. More, and she's headed for the bathtub. Lily, young Jack Russell, thinks Tosca in the tub is a spectacle worth watching.

[JoseBalow]

11. My bulldog used to escape to the tub too

Nowadays, if it gets to be too intense, I wind up with 60-pound pitbull on my lap.

[Harker]

12. Love and trust are beautiful things, my friend.

[JoseBalow]

18. They're the BEST things!

[Harker]

29. ...

[SheltieLover]

17. My pittie wants to take on the noise.

Poor animals.

[JoseBalow]

20. Mine is a big scaredy cat

[SheltieLover]

21. Awwww

Sweet pupper.

[JoseBalow]

25. Ya, she's 15 now

but she'll always be my little puppy.

[SheltieLover]

27. They are such a sweet breed.

[JoseBalow]

32. The sweetest dogs I've ever known

No question about it.

[SheltieLover]

36. I would never have chosen this breed.

Mother Nature sent hi m my way & he was loaded with worms, incl heartworm. I would've placed him with a rrescue, but so many animals dumped here, they would have euthanized him.

So here we are, 7 yrs later.

[SheltieLover]

16. Awwwww poor Tosca!

[Harker]

31. She'd take on a bear to protect us, but a thunderstorm?

Nope.

[SheltieLover]

35. Awww

I feel bad for my pittie because he seems frustrated that he can't get to the source of the "attack." Poor pup.

[SheltieLover]

15. Glad she isn't as bothered by the noise.

[JoseBalow]

22. Only when she hears them

[SheltieLover]

24. Awwww. Poor pupper

[SheltieLover]

26. Have you tried making her a thunder shirt out of ace bandage?

https://www.upyfinal.shop/?path=page/ggitem&ggpid=779915

Or just gently press on her sides with both hands. It's a neurological thing.

[Marthe48]

13. Just more noise in this redneck neighborhood

I've been thinking about getting a noise activated alarm that does something offensive. Mainly for the dirt bikes. I thought about digging out a voice altering toy and screaming something ridiculous after each explosion. Might be too late to pull that off this year, but I grinned thinking about it.

I hope you get through it okay.

[SheltieLover]

14. Gawd they are obnoxious, aren't they?

Haha! Love your idea!

[Marthe48]

19. I've got noise-canceling headphones

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that I wear more and more, just to keep out as much of the din as I can.

[SheltieLover]

23. That is a better idea because, judging from the rednecks here,

They are likely making so much noise to get attention. Sick fucks..

[Marthe48]

30. The more noise they make

The less I want to be neighborly.
Wish there was something to mask the noise so the dogs couldn't hear it. I tried fans when I had my grand dog here, but it didn't help.
My relative in Fl. puts a thundershirt on their dog, gives it calming meds, and sits in their disaster room with it till it's over. Doesn't help much :/

[SheltieLover]

34. Tell hour relative to try benadryl

Look up dosing on internet. Hopefully, it will knock pup out.

[mwmisses4289]

28. Guess we're lucky.

When we first moved into our neighborhood quite a few years ago, fireworks would start going off as soon as the stands opened to sell them, usually about a week before the fourth, and go on for about a week after. The last couple of years though, they might do some on the third, wait until dark to start on the fourth, and done by midnight.
A few of our cats hide but the rest are just sort of meh.

[SheltieLover]

33. These weirdos only seem to set them off when people are out

Of course I completely ignore them.

Glad your plight isn't long lived & your pets aren't too bothered by the infantile stupidity.