My beasties have been going bonkers the last couple of evenings, they bark and snarl every time a genius lights off some fireworks. Does anyone else have dog v. fireworks issues?

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2002 Ford ZX2
2 x 2013 Honda Civics

My Great Dane hates fireworks as well. She gets nervous, and hides when she hears them. She gets all shakey too. Its good that it only happens once a year. I love my pooch.

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

I don't have any dogs but I get cranky when they are popping off all over the place.

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

The reason is what we hear on average, they hear it amplified about 300% more causing them severe pain, they have far better hearing and this is the price they pay for human folly.

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99 Gurkha with OM616 IDI turbo

2015 Gurkha with OM616 DI turbo

2014 Rexton W with OM612 VGT

Howdy All,
None of mine are bothered by fire works. If there is a loud boom like the shuttle my insecure dog looks to Chime. When he sees her he relaxes.

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Frank X. Morris
17 Kia Niro
08 Jeep Wrangler 4 door unlimited

My cat freaks out over them and I'm not too crazy about them myself. I honestly don't see why fireworks should be allowed in the hands of the general public. Of course, that somehow makes me the unpatriotic neighborhood curmudgeon.

They are illegal to sell here but the law is widely ignored.

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

The laws around here are a mish-mash, in most municipalities, you can't buy them or set them off, but in many unincorporated areas they can be sold, but not set off?! The result is fireworks stands popping up in outlying areas, with people coming from all around to buy them. Any unless you hurt someone or burn your neighbor's house down shooting off illegal fireworks, very little enforcement is done, especially around holidays. The bigger problem in the city is people shooting guns in the air...

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2002 Ford ZX2
2 x 2013 Honda Civics

Talk to your vet about doggie tranquilizers if they're really having a problem.

We have 2 dogs a husky and a lab. Both about 10-months old. I blew off many fireworks with both dogs watching and they didnt even huff, puff, or bark at all. Just looked at the sparkling lights set off by the fireworks.

I even had some loud pickelo peets that even hurt my ears when i set one off and the dogs just watched them make noise.

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Current:
05 E320 CDI
07 GL320 CDI
08 Sprinter
05 Dodge Cummins
01 Dodge Cummins

Previous
2004 E55 AMG
2002 C32 AMG (#2)
1995 E300
1978 300D
1987 300D
2002 C32 AMG(blown motor :[
1981 300SD
1983 300SD
1987 300SDL
2002 Jetta TDI
1996 S420
1995 S500
1993 190E 2.6
1992 190E 2.3
1985 190E 2.3 5-Speed

My neighbors dog goes crazy when he hears any noise. It's never quiet.

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1989 300CE Astralsilber/Schwarz
1992 300CE Schwarz/Schwarz

When they first started going off the dogs barked like crazy. But they (3 dachshunds) stopped after a while.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

my cat the Czarina Anastasia Kristina doesn't like them either...

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Mistress, she sounds like royalty (I'm sure she is)!

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1989 300E 144K

On a tangent, I always feel sorry for all the prisoners of the aquarium that is right across the street from where I live, and 100yards away is where they set off the fireworks in my city (downtown Atlanta). I can hear the fireworks roaring from inside an old industrial loft. I wonder what the seals, turtles, whale sharks, dolphins, and all creatures in between can hear in that building (closer to the foreworks than me) taking into consideration the hydraulic amplification characterstics of water...