Off Topic Halloween

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PLT said:
I don't have pets that are bothered about fireworks but I fully sympathise with people who do. I always went to the big public firework displays as a kid. Now it seems they're less popular and more people want to do them at home. I don't get that at all - and obviously that's when it's a problem for pets when it's in a residential area.
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Partly because of the increase in rainfall making the farmers fields too muddy for car parking next to bonfires, increased traffic has stopped the big one in Swanland.
 
PLT said:
I don't have pets that are bothered about fireworks but I fully sympathise with people who do. I always went to the big public firework displays as a kid. Now it seems they're less popular and more people want to do them at home. I don't get that at all - and obviously that's when it's a problem for pets when it's in a residential area.
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I’m not sure that’s true, in a recent survey, 73% of people were in favour of fireworks being banned everywhere other than organised events (and it was a survey of 55,000 people).
 
Fireworks being legal is crazy
Considering you cant legally own pepper spray etc
 
originallambrettaman said:
I’m not sure that’s true, in a recent survey, 73% of people were in favour of fireworks being banned everywhere other than organised events (and it was a survey of 55,000 people).
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That's probably true however large organised events get snowed under with health and safety, legal stuff, now there is Martins law I think its called which is terrorism related attack planning for all events over 250 people, risk assessments, and general police and fire brigade objections. So with all that the organisers of group events give up which in turn leads people to having their own bonfire and fireworks in the garden.
 
tigermaul said:
Strange isn't it? Barking dogs cause a nuisance to me all year round. Fireworks for only a few days.
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Don't forget all the dog **** these moaners don't pick up.

We always used to have our own garden display. 30-40 years ago and more it was common from my memory.
 
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HHH said:
Don't forget all the dog **** these moaners don't pick up.

We always used to have our own garden display. 30-40 years ago and more it was common from my memory.
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Even when they do pick it up, the pavements are stained if (like ours) they're concrete paving stones. It looks disgusting. My old neighbours had a Vizla in a terraced house and it rushed at the fence like an attack dog every time I went in the garden to do anything -- literally scaring the life out of me. They didn't make any attempt to train it not to. When I complained, the owner said 'it's a hunting dog, what do you expect?'. What do I expect? Don't have an unsuitable dog in an unsuitable house. Eventually I lost my rag and threatened to report them to the council in a formal letter headed 'without prejudice' and all that bumf. I didn't in the end report them, but they were more reasonable in keeping the dog inside after that rather than let it roam around barking at all and sundry. Of course, when you met it and them in the street, butter wouldn't melt in its mouth.
 
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