FIREWORKS Why oh why!!!!!!

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We live in a really rural area and for the first time in the 6 years we have lived here tonight someone decided have a bonfire and to set off a shed load of fireworks .Had to go down in the dark and get my horses in as they were cantering around trashing the fields a black and white collie dog jumped into the yard paws bleeding in a right state ran straight to be with my dogs.Managed to catch her and get her into the house.Shut the horses into the barn and spent the next 30 mins on the phone trying to sort out who owned the dog !!!!
A friend with a scanner drove down (2 miles away the other way) to scan her and one the neighbours put an alert on the local farmers group on facebook saying a collie had been found.
Finally found the very grateful owner who has collected her and said it was his neighbour with the fireworks (she has run about 2 miles to us) He was livid that they hadn't thought to tell anyone about the bonfire 'do' they were having!!!!.
There can only be about 12 of us in a 2 mile area of them .Alot of grief would have been averted if people just behaved in a considerate way.
I hate fireworks and inconsiderate people
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I'm still fuming about last night. My neighbours decided to have a huge display, about 50 yards from my lot. The mares were ok - two of them didn't care at all, and one was a bit snorty - but the boys, Alf in particular, freaked.
I went round to have (through gritted teeth) a polite conversation about how it would have been nice if they'd told me, so that I could have moved them or doped the daft ones - and got a tirade of abuse, which annoyed me so much that I accidentally called him a very very very rude name and stomped off.
 
I am very lucky with my boys - I was late getting up the yard tonight and got them in about half 7 but not before a firework "display" was up and running about 100 yards from their field but they weren't bothered in the slightest!
 
Tell me why some tw**s would let off fireworks this morning in the middle of my lesson. Loose ponies on the field started charging round spooking our RS ponies! How the hell can you see fireworks in the daylight !!!
 
I have new houses opposite me and a yard at the bottom of my garden, one of the houses opposite had fireworks at 5pm! I was trying to walk the dog before every thing kicked off but No fireworks now start before dark
 
All 3 people with land that neighbours our, have had displays of varying sizes this year. No warning even from the next door ones who are 40m from the stables. Gah!
 
I work with riding school ponies, and have recently come home from a display that the owners have had. Well, it was a fantastic display, but due to one thing or another, 'they' set up this display closer than expected. To say the horses were terrified was an understatement! Poor things. It must have been truly scary for them, and you feel so helpless watching their faces, eyes wide open in sheer terror. We all got rained on by the sparks, the ground shook, the sky lit up and the noise was deafening. I've given them all hay, checked all legs and had to leave them to settle.
I could cry for them.
 
We have 3 houses locally with new owners, who, of course, haven't thought to let us know their plans. Our horses are usually quite blase about fireworks and quite enjoy watching the displays that we can see for miles around but this year, each of these 3 houses has had a fireworks party Thurs/Fri/Sat. No idea why they couldn't all celebrate Bonfire Night on the 5th November.
They seem to have spent a fortune on bombs to let off, right over our heads at just the moment we have been bringing our horses in. Sister and I were actually in the field standing between the horses, putting halters on, when all hell broke loose tonight, both mares jumped and ran round, fortunately taking care to avoid us. I have never known them react as much as that before. Are this year's fireworks really much louder than usual? It certainly seems so.
 
We've had the blitz starting day before Halloween and still going every night and some during the day making walking my 3 dogs a nightmare.
I was up in central London last night on a Ripper Walk, not one firework went off.It was when I got back out in the sticks (Surrey Hills) and late after 11pm, that I heard the blitz again, night after flippin night
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I hate to add to the misery... Not only have we had the last 2 weeks of various sets of bonfire night fireworks. Next week is Diwali - the Hindu Festival of lights......

The government have responded to the petition above and said they have no plans to introduce further regulation. We may be able to force this into debate - but I'm afraid the chances of getting anything passed is zero to nil.
 
Signed the petition. Both last year and this it was like the blitz in our semi rural village. Inconsiderate new neighbours letting them off from 4pm onwards. Dogs had panic attacks even on vet prescribed diazepam (last year one escaped and ended up in a river trying to escape). I hate them and the inconsiderate fools who let them off.
 
Shay said:
I hate to add to the misery... Not only have we had the last 2 weeks of various sets of bonfire night fireworks. Next week is Diwali - the Hindu Festival of l.
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Heaven help us!

I don't have a problem with fireworks but just on the actual flamin day!! These days they go on for weeks!

Am waiting to spot my first house Xmas lights :D
 
We keep our two in the middle of nowhere atm, so even if the nearest neighbours have a display it will still be miles away and they aren't too bothered unless the fireworks are right next to them. But I did once keep my horse on a yard where the YO decided to have a display herself....letting off the fireworks in the arena! The field horses all went crazy as it was right next door to their field, and on my way home I found one of them stuck in a fence. Words failed me on that occasion! :rolleyes:
 
Afraid I work by the Karma approach.

My neighbouring idiots who decided that a midnight bonfire and fireworks were a good idea,had an early awakening as two pigeon rockets exploded over their house at 5.30 am It was so satisfying to see all their lights come on!!!!
 
I don't generally mind fireworks, however, last night our closest neighbours let off a load of noisy ones two fields away from my horses stable. Thankfully she was okay but i would rather have been informed first. Especially as the sparks were landing far too close for comfort to our stack of haylage bales.
 
We've had fireworks for the last three weeks now continuously, last night was the worst so I'm hoping we won't have anymore tonight but that's probably wishful thinking, Diwali next and then the cheap fireworks so next weekend as well, then only xmas and Boxing Day and new year and every b****rs birthday in between, roll on January.
 
Sadly in this day and age where people have very little respect for others or common sense I thing the only solution is to distribute a letter/leaflet to each and every neighbours asking them to let one know what their Firework arrangements will be so that one can be prepared and take appropriate action. Maybe we should all get our heads together and produce a suitable leaflet which we can all use for the coming New Year and next Guy Fawks night.
 
I have just finished picking up the remnants of my neighbour's fireworks from all over our fields. Some of the rockets were sticking up out of the ground and there were hundreds of little cardboard squares which must have exploded out of some of them. I really don't understand why its OK to litter other people's land like this. When I was a kid fireworks were so much smaller and you could only just hear them in the next property's garden, now some of them are just ridiculously loud and it seems like a ego competition as to which house has the biggest and loudest ones.

My horses were so good until my closest neighbour started theirs, about 50m away from my stables and because of the direction of the wind they blew up directly over my yard and completely terrified my horses. One of them was so scared she crouched right down on the floor, it was horrible. Luckily it didn't last too long and they seemed to settle down after an hour or so.

I did speak to them afterwards and told them that the sparks land all over my property and they did apologise, but they do it every year over the bonfire night period and again at New Year. I dread it and can't go out because of the risk of one of my stables catching fire. I have signed petitions in previous years but I'm not very optimistic about anything being done to change things. I wouldn't mind if it was an inconvenience associated with doing something constructive, but when its purely for a few minutes of human entertainment it just seems completely selfish to me.
 
Unfortunately until they are banned for general sale the best we can do is visit neighbours and ask them to let us know of their plans so we can make what ever arrangements we need for our animals. Hopefully they will comply and save a lot of hassle for people.

My lot are usually OK but we never have them within a mile or so of the house. This year the house 100m away let a load of and scared the bejesus out of my two TBS. The natives couldn't give a toss lol! I will speak to them for next year.
 
I agree with peter natt and ekw...

I make sure ours are in at night by halloween, but not everyone has that option.

And dogs and cats are badly affected too.

We had one organised display out here years ago in the summer when horses were out. Community association had got some money. No warning whatsoever. They got the sharp end of my tongue for sure, in fact I wrote to H&H about it.

Fiona
 
popsdosh said:
Afraid I work by the Karma approach.

My neighbouring idiots who decided that a midnight bonfire and fireworks were a good idea,had an early awakening as two pigeon rockets exploded over their house at 5.30 am It was so satisfying to see all their lights come on!!!!
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Awesome - well done!!!
 
I totally agree with all the comments regarding the havoc that fireworks cause to horses, domestic pets and wildlife - I've signed the petition. We live a thatched property, so fireworks worry us a lot!
 
Ours where absolutely petrified and went mad when there was a huge display with ridiculously loud rocket things let off on 5th November by the farmer, right at the bottom of our field, with no notice given. They were practically letting the fireworks off into our field, and they were 'popping' right overhead, and landing near the stable roofs. I went to have a look what was happening down there, as we couldn't open the top doors of ours - each time we did they were rearing over and out of them, and as I went down to look, on numerous occasions I nearly had my head taken off by them flying over me!!

Sunny was physically dripping with sweat all over her head and ears, and her stable was boiling, as she ran round it in panic.

Thankfully they did stop after about an hour though.
 
They were going off well into the early hours here. The worst I've known it and I've lived in this village for 10 years. I was so stressed as I'd opened the flap for the cats at midnight before going off to bed. Thought we'd be ok as we've never had them during the night before. We did have some new neighbours move in earlier this year. Clearly they're bigger ****** than the people they bought the house from.
 
The committee who organise the huge local display next to my paddocks (11 ponies, and everyone knows they're mine), didn't even give me a courtesy phone call this year.

It's not the fireworks I have a problem with... it's the total lack of manners.
 
It does get worse every year. Now one can of course not expect everyone to be horsey, but surely the majority of those putting on fireworks have animals themselves, be it cats or dogs. Are they then also completely oblivious to the stress put on their own pets? It boggles the mind how (deliberately!) inconsiderate some people must be.

I hardly think giving surroundings some notice, and sticking to the actual appropriate times (not to mention days!) set, is much to ask for on any day involving fireworks.

There are incidents with animals caused by fireworks every single year and it is not only unnecessary but should be completely avoidable.
 
I'm on a JRT Facebook page, and the amount of stressed panicked dogs was phenomenal :(

Bad enough for one night, but it seems to go on for about a fortnight now :(

Fiona
 
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