i officially hate fourth of july

[J.Pryce]

I think the fireworks thing is stupid. Celebrate the birthday of the USA by shooting off crap from China. Oh well all our other junk comes from there too.

 

[FluffyColor]

We don't have a dog this year

(but I think we're getting a new puppy!

), but my two poor chicks were about to die. They went around the place peep-peep-peeping with terror in their eyes. One sat down and looked like a hen with an egg under her, and the other one ran around making a huge ruckus. The only thing that was really scared of those loud BOOM!s at midnight were me and my brother. These are the same people that call the Sheriff and say:

"The neighbors down the street keep a rooster that wakes me up at 6:00 in the morning!"

What about when you scared them silly with a stick of dynamite at 2 in the morning?

 

[Sweet Violet]

I live real close to Camp Pendleton. Trust me, war games are much worse than fireworks. boom, boom, boom and the earth shakes!

 

[Msbear]

I was outside watching them all around with my 3 yr old last night. One neighbor a few houses down must've let off an arsenal that could compete with the national mall show. HUGE ones with the big booms... then multiple shot ones with all the wiggly ziggly ones that fly every direction. It was really breathtaking.. but, the birds were going bananas and flying every which way. We almost got clobbered a couple of times. Didn't realize how must they were affected til this morning.. when I found a couple dead in my yard.

 

[stumble_n_mumble]

Alright well..... no casualties thank god! I was praying everyone would be fine and they looked great this morning chasing me down for food! Lol 364 days till next year

 

[JetBlack]

I wonder if dogs hear more of the sounds than we do? And are hunting dogs not freaked out? They get accustomed to the boom of a shotgun or rifle, so I wonder if they just spend the evening wondering who is fetching all the ducks which are apparently being shot down.

My cat is deaf and my chickens spent the day listening to the booms and cracks of fireworks and did not seem to care at all.

 

[MoSo]

Now that it's the 5th: please, dear neighbors, stop with the fireworks! Fireworks on the 4th don't bother me, and I can give the dogs benadryl for an evening and watch the 20 acres of dry grassland below me carefully, but it's the WEEK of some idiot somewhere setting them off at night that makes me want them banned!

 

[Hollywood Chickens]

My chickens didn't care, but my goats sure did! they were so scared!

 

[stumble_n_mumble]

Lol well how about dear people who set off all the fireworks last night come around and clean up your mess!!!!!!

 

[michickenwrangler]

We live by campgrounds and canoe liveries so the yahoos always shoot off fireworks and guns until all hours of the night.

I'm glad that it's over.