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Yet again, my dog's bricking it...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:37 / 14.10.02

I know I posted an almost identical topic this time last year, but hey. It fucks me off.

My dog is terrified of any of the open spaces I usually take her to, because they all either are or have been in the last couple of days, full of kids with fireworks. From past experience, I expect this "firework phase" to last until the end of next month. Fuck, even Christmas doesn't go on that long. The festival of "being nice to people" has less staying power than the "scaring the fuck out of Stoatie's dog" one. That sucks.

Sorry to vent there. Just spent a morning and early afternoon looking forward to walking Biscy, then take her out and she's terrified COS OF SOME LITTLE WANKERS!!!. Ahem. I'll be chilled again soon. Honest.

pacha perplexa

21:30 / 14.10.02

Aw, I know how that is. The interesting thing is that some dogs just don't give a damn about the fireworks - the eldest of my three is absolutely nonplussed everytime there's a footbal game, while the other two curl up trembling at our feet. Evil!
Hugs and talking to Biscuits might help when she gets too freaked out.

Baz Auckland

02:51 / 15.10.02

ooh. my sorrows to biscuits. aw...poor thing. What about Axl?

illmatic

07:44 / 15.10.02

Nuff hugs to biscuits - they may be real ones soon, you've not introduced us .. why don't we kidnap some kids and get biscuits to eat them, "taking strnegth from the hearts of your enemies" and all that.

My mum had a dog which was totally terrified and gave it tranquilsers one year. Not good to watch your dog stumble around like incoherently unable to move her back legs properly. Now I know what she felt like watching me get in from the pub.

Cat Chant

07:57 / 15.10.02

I know - it starts early on Gauda Prime & both myself (due to the incident some posters may remember involving me, an open window, a stepladder and some FUCKING KIDS) and my friend's cats have spent the last couple of weeks flat on our bellies under a sofa. And, in an ironic insult-to-injury manner, every time I wait at the bus stop ten-year-olds offer me a couple of quid to buy them fireworks. So sympathy & comradeship to your dog, Chairman.

It won't be over till after the New Year. That's three months.

(As for the duration of Christmas, though, my local supermarket just started selling Santa lollies.)

Kit-Cat Club

08:04 / 15.10.02

Have just heard on t'radio that they are banning the sale of airborne fireworks (i.e. whizzbangs) to the general public because of all the accidents... so it won't be kids for much longer, just FUCKING MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS....

illmatic

09:53 / 15.10.02

Deva - "flat on our on our bellies". Fuck, so you're under the sofa as well? Well, you've gotta keep them comfortable..

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:04 / 15.10.02

KCC: Welcome to New South Wales. You can't buy them here - only wait for the godawful (why the fuck are they always synchronised to top-40 tunes? Why not a Schnittke-synched firework display? Fuckers.) council-done ones.

But hey. We obviously can't control ourselves here. Without the guiding council hand, it'd be all damn fireworks-in-briefcases malarkey before too long, you mark my words.

Saveloy

10:17 / 15.10.02

Kit-Cat Club:

"Have just heard on t'radio that they are banning the sale of airborne fireworks (i.e. whizzbangs) to the general public because of all the accidents... "

As someone who likes fireworks a great deal, I think this is great news. "Air Bombs" are the aggressive moron's firework of choice, because they produce a big BANG and NO pretty colours. And it's not even the sort of bang that a lover of noise could enjoy - it's too short and sharp; it makes you jump and then fucks off before you've had a chance to savour whatever aural pleasures it might have offered.

"... so it won't be kids for much longer, just FUCKING MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS...."

Yeah, not so good news. They should ban them altogether. The last display I went to back in the summer was completely ruined by the continuous use of massive air bombs. It was like nasty, hard little stones instantly materialising in your BWANE. Bastards!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:12 / 15.10.02

God, yeah, I remember your open window incident, Deva... this time last year, wasn't it?

Barry- Axel seems completely oblivious. He's too busy being a big fluffleupagus to care.

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