Fireworks thread

mcblink said:
In years gone by, Adrian actually told me about how putting a tight shirt on your dog can help calm anxiety from 4th celebrations. There's actually a product designed for this, but a snug t shirt works the same. We tried it once.

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We have seen these. Read about them. And of course…. The multiple commercials on cable for 19.95 and we’ll send you a 2nd one for free.

With out pooch it’s hit or miss being anxious/scared. Might be thunder. Or fireworks. Or both. Other times she’s mostly fine. I have had her curled up next to me on the sofa and I’ve tossed a quilt on her. Sometimes it helps. Other times it doesn’t. So just not sure how a “thundershirt” would work with ours.
 
iblive said:
We have seen these. Read about them. And of course…. The multiple commercials on cable for 19.95 and we’ll send you a 2nd one for free.

With out pooch it’s hit or miss being anxious/scared. Might be thunder. Or fireworks. Or both. Other times she’s mostly fine. I have had her curled up next to me on the sofa and I’ve tossed a quilt on her. Sometimes it helps. Other times it doesn’t. So just not sure how a “thundershirt” would work with ours.
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I didn't really notice any difference with our dogs either.

Of course, being country dogs, it's not as if they're not familiar with gunfire and stuff.

Plenty of hunting dogs out there can't wait to retrieve whatever fell after a loud gun blast too. My dogs aren't hunting dogs, but I've hunted with dogs that see the gun and get excited to go hunt!
 
mcblink said:
I didn't really notice any difference with our dogs either.

Of course, being country dogs, it's not as if they're not familiar with gunfire and stuff.

Plenty of hunting dogs out there can't wait to retrieve whatever fell after a loud gun blast too. My dogs aren't hunting dogs, but I've hunted with dogs that see the gun and get excited to go hunt!
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I fish. Don’t hunt. But our pooch would have been a great hunting dog…. Bird dog by breed…. Had she had proper training. Great instincts. And yours got excited when you’d pick up your gun. Mine is like on a pogo stick when I put on a hat she’s so excited. Since that means we’re going outside. Which is her favorite place to be.
 
mcblink said:
In years gone by, Adrian actually told me about how putting a tight shirt on your dog can help calm anxiety from 4th celebrations. There's actually a product designed for this, but a snug t shirt works the same. We tried it once.

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Bought the shirt whatever the name is, thunder shirt or somethin. Did absolutely nothing on 2 different dogs, what worked is one dog went deaf, and the other started having seizures, the seizures drugs help somewhat
 
Boubou said:
Bought the shirt whatever the name is, thunder shirt or somethin. Did absolutely nothing on 2 different dogs, what worked is one dog went deaf, and the other started having seizures, the seizures drugs help somewhat
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Right, it didn't do much, if anything, for mine either. Decided not to spend money on the 'real' thing.

iblive said:
I fish. Don’t hunt. But our pooch would have been a great hunting dog…. Bird dog by breed…. Had she had proper training. Great instincts. And yours got excited when you’d pick up your gun. Mine is like on a pogo stick when I put on a hat she’s so excited. Since that means we’re going outside. Which is her favorite place to be.
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I made the decision not to hunt anymore sometime after I destroyed my knee on that bike. I don't need to hunt to eat. So what that means is I was doing it for sport, also known as just for fun. I do not actually enjoy killing things. I can, I know how, and someday it may be a necessary skill. But, I still take no pleasure in killing. Once I figured that out, I kinda felt bad about it. So I decided to quit. I never used to keep my fish either, always catch and release, unless I was specifically angling for salmon or steelhead on the Columbia. Those would be kept and smoked.
 
mcblink said:
Right, it didn't do much, if anything, for mine either. Decided not to spend money on the 'real' thing.


I made the decision not to hunt anymore sometime after I destroyed my knee on that bike. I don't need to hunt to eat. So what that means is I was doing it for sport, also known as just for fun. I do not actually enjoy killing things. I can, I know how, and someday it may be a necessary skill. But, I still take no pleasure in killing. Once I figured that out, I kinda felt bad about it. So I decided to quit. I never used to keep my fish either, always catch and release, unless I was specifically angling for salmon or steelhead on the Columbia. Those would be kept and smoked.
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I’ll keep smaller fish. Pan size. But I’d most likely toss anything big back. First…. Those bigger fish like catfish and bass just don’t taste all that good compared the smaller ones. Like you. The exception being something like salmon out of Lake Michigan for me. Love salmon.

And nothing against those that hunt. Just isn’t for me. I have friends, former coworkers, customers…. That hunt. Primarily been deer. Both for sport and food. They all take it personal if they wound a deer and are unable to track it, knowing it most likely will die.
 
Boubou said:
They should be banned.
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And a happy 4th of July to all Americans!
There is just no need to use explosives to celebrate
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absolutely
i hate fireworks.
Little Bit has an Rx for xanax. She shares it with me on nights like tonight.

ETA:
Experiencing the randomness of an artillery and mortar barrage, punctuated by small arms fire can, and often does, change one's perspective. But it's the witnessing the aftermath...the resulting carnage....that changes a person. Gone is the little kid who oooo'd and ahhhh'd every 4th. Replaced by a man who, despite knowing, has difficulty keeping them separated.

That fireworks sound, and the concussion feels, nearly identical might have a little something to do with it.

I see no practical purpose for fireworks as a celebratory mechanism. I think.
 
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Some people just love guns and explosions I guess.

In Hawaii people set off so many firecrackers it's like a war zone. There's so much smoke you can barely drive a car for the lack of visibility.
Each person sets off minimum 25,000 firecrackers, but 100,000 is not unusual.

 
Remember a comment was made here “that it’s only one night.”

Well in my part of the world. People started setting stuff off…. Including the pro show in the town I live in….. a full week before the 4th. It’s still going on and it’s the 13th. So working out the math…. That’s about 21 “one days.”
 
iblive said:
Remember a comment was made here “that it’s only one night.”

Well in my part of the world. People started setting stuff off…. Including the pro show in the town I live in….. a full week before the 4th. It’s still going on and it’s the 13th. So working out the math…. That’s about 21 “one days.”
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That's ridiculous. Get a bull horn and start yelling at them lol
 
DirtySteve said:
I have no problem with folks popping off fireworks on the 4th of July and New Years, it's the new trend to turn it into a 2 week (or more) event that chaps my ass.
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There's been some goons around here still blasting mortars over the last few days. We were in the OBX during the 4th, so I didn't hear the barrage we just get here but I still am now, 9 days later.

These are the same brain trusts that pull up to the local fireworks tent in a Oldsmobile Alero with 3 different colored fenders, dumping blue smoke out of the exhaust but inexplicably have the defense budget of a South American nation
 
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