[yorkietalkjilly]

Tibbe was totally unfazed during the first bouts of fireworks. I think our city or some other entity had its usual professional fireworks show last night
slightly before 9 but about 1 1/2 hours after that was over, the city seemed to explode with these interminable bouts of booms, both little and big, for the next couple of hours. They sounded far off but just kept on and on, sounded like war sounds in the movies! Dang! I was getting mad, I mean, there is a limit to how kid-like teens or grown men should act and I was getting worried Tibbe would start to get upset. Eventually he began to hold his ears back and round his eyes big(reading my body language) and I put him in my lap, started scratching his back. He went out like a light and was totally cool through other bursts of pure noise. Ugh! It's never been this bad.

I'm still steamed at how many so-called good citizens illegally boomed on and on last night once the pros were done before 10 pm. We've never had fireworks that long or loud before. What's with people?!?! Got pretty rankled thinking of all the dogs in all the neighborhoods within hearing distance subjected to that barrage, maybe many of them home alone and scared and many drugged, swaddled or hiding, trying to cope.

I just heard a firecracker go off! These wingnuts had some left!