Fireworks, bloomin bangers!

LASTOLITE said:
Should have said, What its Her fault she wanted to come out I hate fireworks, but she makes me do it every year.......then look at dog and say.... yes its your fault we are out..........you any your firework displays, O she loves a good display...They will think you have lost the plot.....:D

My westie went after a gang of lads chucking bangers in Liverpool, she was not happy, they all ran for their lives....from the snarling westie.....you could not light up a sparkler around her or she would bite you...it was personal with her..looking out of the window growling at the reds and green in the sky..I kept away from her on the 5th but still needed to wee so out she would want to go for a pee and a snarl:confused:....Dont have her anymore...:(
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Thing is we have Sefton Park on our door step, nice for photos etc. But hoards of noisy gits with their bangers, or at least fireworks that go bang !
 
jonbeeza said:
Thing is we have Sefton Park on our door step, nice for photos etc. But hoards of noisy gits with their bangers, or at least fireworks that go bang !
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Sevvy Park........When I was a kid and allowed on the bus we used to go there for the whole day......Or fishing with my mates dad in his Hillman Hunter Estate..lol
Yeah it wasa den of banger throwing loonies then too!
 
LASTOLITE said:
Sevvy Park........When I was a kid and allowed on the bus we used to go there for the whole day......Or fishing with my mates dad in his Hillman Hunter Estate..lol
Yeah it wasa den of banger throwing loonies then too!
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Yep that the one bottle a Tizer packet of biccies, and see if we could hijack one of the boats on the lake, must be 60s or early 70s..Oh and of course it is called Sevvy Park ;)
 
viv1969 said:
Oh I wish she were still here tonight just si I could use that.
Brilliant!

Sorry your girl's not still around too :(
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You have me looking at old photos now........I bought her from a farm in the Welsh hills....spent all day playing with 5 of them and the mum and dad just sat and watched....me. This one would not leave me alone so I picked her....Bought for the girlfriend at the time and I kept her in the split...she lasted 18 years, good for a Westie. She was very particular after I fed her on M $ S chicken......:rolleyes: But her favorite was my Spagboll....her fur around her chops was stained red.....well I lived on my own for a bit, just me and her....flippin heck......need to stop now. Glass of red quick!
 
LASTOLITE said:
You have me looking at old photos now........I bought her from a farm in the Welsh hills....spent all day playing with 5 of them and the mum and dad just sat and watched....me. This one would not leave me alone so I picked her....Bought for the girlfriend at the time and I kept her in the split...she lasted 18 years, good for a Westie. She was very particular after I fed her on M $ S chicken......:rolleyes: But her favorite was my Spagboll....her fur around her chops was stained red.....well I lived on my own for a bit, just me and her....flippin heck......need to stop now. Glass of red quick!
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Got my GSD from a rescue.
Six months old. Half starved and beaten.
No confidence whatsoever and it was a good month before she'd hold eye contact.
Best dog I ever owned and was 14 when she went.
Can I please have a glass of that wine? :(
 
viv1969 said:
Got my GSD from a rescue.
Six months old. Half starved and beaten.
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What is it with GSD's? mine had a similar background, but was approx 3 old years before she ended up in rescue :(
viv1969 said:
Best dog I ever owned and was 14 when she went.
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Same here but finally Put to sleep at around 15 years ( back legs went :( )
 
Cobra said:
What is it with GSD's? mine had a similar background, but was approx 3 old years before she ended up in rescue :(

Same here but finally Put to sleep at around 15 years ( back legs went :( )
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Pull up a chair...grab a glass.
 
We are better for having them in our lives, even for a short while..........Another round....:beer:
 
Still trying to take my dog out, but the fireworks are still going off. She is not too happy at the moment, with all the noise. Might give it another half an hour, then will take her for a quick walk :)
 
I spent nine yearsbabysitting my dog and my sister's Old English on a New Year whilst she had a party . They both hated fireworks. I had one wrapped round my neck and the other at my feet shaking. We used to sit with scarves round their heads so it wasn't so noisy. They were friends so it was easier looking after two than one. Those were the days
 
My airedales a rescue dog so we don't know why he is so scared of fireworks{and a great many other things} but at 10.40 last night some prick was still at it, I'd stick one of his rockets the pricks arse and light the blue touch paper, are they showing off at that time of night? it does seem to be a dick measuring thing, my fireworks are brighter and louder than yours kinda thing. Ban them for public sale, most won't even know the reason behind the outdated tradition now.
 
mj4456 said:
most won't even know the reason behind the outdated tradition now.
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If we're going by that logic, we'd best also ban Christmas, easter, Hallowe'en....well, all of them really.
 
Not a bad idea! Go back to the original reasons for celebrating the Sun's passages rather than dressing them up in some set of Middle Eastern fairy tales adapted over several thousand years to sit various agendas and religions through the ages.
 
Why celebrate?
The sun shall continue to pass without such silliness.
 
Dog owners, look up 'Thundershirt', won't help this year but I know lots of folk have had great success with them for frightened pooches

DorsetDude said:
I've said it before, I'll say it again, selling fireworks direct to the great unwashed needs to be stopped. So much simpler than trying to get everbody to be responsible with them. No chance of that.
So restrict it all to public displays, whether at schools, rugby/sport clubs, council run, whatever. A better display, a known time and a bit of a community mingle at the same time.
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Agree 100%.

Even banning individual rockets/bangers/etc would be a start. Make it so you have to buy a 'display in a box' for an eye watering figure and you just light it, stand back, enjoy the display. Pretty sure for home use they could reduce the bangs etc.
 
RichardtheSane said:
Dog owners, look up 'Thundershirt', won't help this year but I know lots of folk have had great success with them for frightened pooches


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A dog coat, not sure that would help. Not unless it comes with earplugs for my dog :rolleyes:
 
neil_g said:
Its the duration that gets on my nerves. Seems to go on for weeks and late into the night.

Stressing the cats out too.
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In bed last night 2am, people in a street or two away setting off rockets. About to get the big stick from under the bed and shut them up, till I remembered my age :)
 
Loved fireworks when I was young, the noisier the better :)


And close to half a century later I still do :D
 
1.30am and some silly gits are letting off fireworks again! Had to get up to the animals, as they are up and running about trying to hide!

Would love to see the day they are banned! Absolutely no need for the public to be letting them off any time they please !
 
jonbeeza said:
A dog coat, not sure that would help. Not unless it comes with earplugs for my dog :rolleyes:
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Dismiss out of hand all you like. It's a tad more than a coat though, did you read up on it or just look at the pictures? Last night one elderly greyhound was pacing about, panting, shaking. A short time after a thundershirt was applied said dog was relaxed and asleep. They work because they are quite tight so apply a constant pressure which for reasons I don't understand sooths the majority of dogs.

Not bad for a 'dog coat' don't you think? If my dog had of been scared of fireworks I would have tried anything to ease their suffering.
 
RichardtheSane said:
Dismiss out of hand all you like. It's a tad more than a coat though, did you read up on it or just look at the pictures? Last night one elderly greyhound was pacing about, panting, shaking. A short time after a thundershirt was applied said dog was relaxed and asleep. They work because they are quite tight so apply a constant pressure which for reasons I don't understand sooths the majority of dogs.

Not bad for a 'dog coat' don't you think? If my dog had of been scared of fireworks I would have tried anything to ease their suffering.
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Oh dear, am I in trouble ? :)
 
Bloody fireworks have started again, what is the matter with these idiots? Just as I thought it was OK to take the dog out :punch::punch:
 
It may be to celebrate Diwali today rather than random idiots. Certainly many of my Indian colleagues are planning on fireworks tonight in Edinburgh
 
Sent to me by a friend
... and the rockets' red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
gave proof through the night
that it was Diwali in East London.

Guess where he lives :P
 
Where I lived in Spain bangers are heard all the time during June. Kiosks are set up in streets selling bags of them to kids. After a while I just got used to the noise. However, 2 years ago the potential for danger was realised when a child placed one in a can, and when it exploded a shard of aluminium cut his jugular vein and he subsequently died.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/06/22/valencia/1371890771.html
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Where I lived in Spain bangers are heard all the time during June. Kiosks are set up in streets selling bags of them to kids. After a while I just got used to the noise. However, 2 years ago the potential for danger was realised when a child placed one in a can, and when it exploded a shard of aluminium cut his jugular vein and he subsequently died.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/06/22/valencia/1371890771.html
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A bit gruesome, kids and fireworks just do not mix :(
 
Bloody Diwali pagan ceremonies and guy fawkes!
I wish he'd succeeded !

I had to be on the road at 5am this morning ( As per most mornings)
I was in bed by 9pm, RUDELY AWAKENED by Whuuuuuuuuuuuuuump BOOM!
At 11.30 pm this continued at approx minute intervals until midnight!
On a school night too! God knows where they were though, I couldn't see a flash, just heard the constant noise!

They must have woken up the whole neighbourhood!
 
Cobra said:
Bloody Diwali pagan ceremonies and guy fawkes!
I wish he'd succeeded !

I had to be on the road at 5am this morning ( As per most mornings)
I was in bed by 9pm, RUDELY AWAKENED by Whuuuuuuuuuuuuuump BOOM!
At 11.30 pm this continued at approx minute intervals until midnight!
On a school night too! God knows where they were though, I couldn't see a flash, just heard the constant noise!

They must have woken up the whole neighbourhood!
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The colourful display is fine, just the blooming BANG ! No need surely :punch::punch:
 
To be honest, since moving where I am now I only hear the one big organised display. other then that it's fairly quiet.
I lost interest in in Bonfire night when my Dad died 39 years ago, long before his time, on November 5th :(
 
Oddly we always used to celebrate it since it was Dad's birthday. Their previous cat used to love fireworks and would scratch at the door to get into the room to watch them but our cat (Mum and Dad's before their departures) hates them. CBA to go out looking for them these days (displays, not our own!) but enjoy seeing and hearing them myself. Apart from anything, we stay in to keep the cat company over bang season!
 
Gremlin said:
I lost interest in in Bonfire night when my Dad died 39 years ago, long before his time, on November 5th :(
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I guess that would do it :(
 
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