Were your animals OK last night?

Yep, left mine out, they get more stressed left in :) Dad checked on them for me, and apparently scared them more by shining a torch on them than the fireworks! silly daddy! :)
 
Horse absolutely fine, as he is every year. Stands and watches with mild interest for a while then takes himself into his stable to munch hay. Our two dogs are also absolutely fine. :D

We are so lucky - I have lived with a dog who spent literally weeks in pieces around Bonfire night/new year. It's not nice when they are stressed :(
 
All my lot were fine - happy munching hay and watching the massive display less than 1/2 a mile away - it's great we get to watch for free from the fields saving a tenner!!
 
I was having a lesson when the fireworks started - there was a big display just over the road so we watched them from the school and she had a lovely view of them over the valley from her stable. I expect she had a lovely evening - far more interesting than me just going to bed early.
 
Mine were all fine, cat and dog mooched around in the living room. Horses have grown up with a gun club at the end of their driveway so a few fireworks mean nothing to them.

One year our neighbours rabbit was on the loose and was spotted on the outskirts of our group watching the fireworks.
 
Our horses and cats were fine but unfortunately not one of the dogs. On Friday evening, unknown to us, there was a firework display in the town about 8 miles away. Early in the evening my husband let the three dogs out to the garden and the middle one (pic is my avatar) vanished. They were only out 10 mins max and the fireworks weren’t loud at all given how far away they were (we didn’t notice them when we let them out) but he had obviously panicked. The oldest dog came rushing back in, the puppy was completely unfazed but there was no sign of Harvey.

He must have forced his way through the fence.We hunted high and low till gone midnight with no sign of him – reported him missing to the police, phoned the railway control as our land is bounded by a railway . He is quite a timid dog, a real mummy’s boy and never strays far from my side so something must have really frightened him. We left the back door open all night and kept getting up to check for him but really began to fear the worst. We started searching again as soon as it was light but saw no sign of him. I came face to face with a huge dog fox in woods and thought that if Harvey had encountered him he wouldn’t have stood a chance – my imagination was running riot as you can imagine.

Then my phone rang – one of the yard staff had been turning out a horse and looked across another field and saw a tiny figure crawling out from the drainage ditch at the field boundary. Harvey was freezing, soaking wet and had some scrapes and scratches but was otherwise ok :D We think he had been in the ditch or the undergrowth beside it and just laid low. Once back in the house we cleaned him up and he had a short play with the puppy before curling up beside me and sleeping for the rest of the day. He slept in the crook of my arm last night and isn’t keen to go out unless I’m right beside him but hopefully will settle in the next few days. I feel very guilty as we knew there were going to be fireworks last night about 2 miles away and were prepared for them but hadn't thought of displays further away. We'll definitely be prepared next year.
 
Dogs all fine, cats fine but poor horses who are out 24/7 had a bloody chinese lantern fall into their field!!! It was also quite windy and it must have been blown about and dragged along the ground until it was eventually caught up in the fence- due to the amount of hoofprints tearing across the field!! Grrrrrr

Horses are both ok and were very relieved to see it removed the following morning!

Ban the lanterns.bloodycom!!!
 
We take the approach that the more crazy stuff our horses see, the less they will care about it. So this year, as every year, we set up a marquee in front of the stables, stuck a disco in it and a barbecue at the end, lit up a huge bonfire and let off some fireworks in the paddock.

Horses absolutely fine, even with 70 people doing the conga right past their stables. Also didn't bat an eyelid at the sight of 20 or so children racing each other in wheelbarrows and a 10 foot long replica gondola on wheels (don't ask!), and managed to put up with some really bad karaoke!
 
depurple1 said:
We take the approach that the more crazy stuff our horses see, the less they will care about it. So this year, as every year, we set up a marquee in front of the stables, stuck a disco in it and a barbecue at the end, lit up a huge bonfire and let off some fireworks in the paddock.

Horses absolutely fine, even with 70 people doing the conga right past their stables. Also didn't bat an eyelid at the sight of 20 or so children racing each other in wheelbarrows and a 10 foot long replica gondola on wheels (don't ask!), and managed to put up with some really bad karaoke!
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Brilliant ! That my aproach too. Not sure about the karaoke though...that could be a case for the WHW.:D
 
Had the usual problem of trying to keep my welsh sec D from getting out of his stable to get a better view! Shut the top doors and opened the window. He likes to look at the fireworks going off... One year he was late coming in and was stood in the field watching them go up and explode! Not scared in the slightest, just facinated!!! (he also chases tractors, runs after lorries and tries to race combines- typical Welsh D- unhinged!)
The other one snored right through the night!
 
I stayed at the yard 'til very late, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night - just in case! The worst was Friday, because a local school display was happening not far from our stables. We had the radio on loud. Mine didn't seem too bad, but Z started rearing & bucking in his stable during the finale of the display.
Saturday morning, all the stables were really trashed, and I was due to do dressage in the morning, and my boy seemed quite tense so I lunged him first, which helped him relax.

All the horses seemed a lot calmer Saturday and Sunday nights, so I decided to use the time for clipping. It's their 2nd clips already!

My dog gets very nervous and stressed in the house when fireworks are happening, but is a lot happier at the yard, where there are people and other dogs to distract her, so the stables were the best place for her to be as well.
 
My Boy wasnt on friday night :(

He panicked as some idiot let them off right next to his field (he has been fine with all the other bangs over the last week). He went through electric fencing and ran the gate over, took off at a full gallop down a few minor roads, then straight across a busy junction and down a main road, before doubling back and coming back up the main road and galloping down a side road. By the time he had run out of road at the top of the hill outside somebodys front door, he was galloped out and let a lady drag him into a field by his rug.

Thankfully, all he had to show for it was a shallow cut on his front leg from the gate and a touch of lameness (then again galloping for nearly three miles on tarmac will do that!). I feel like the luckiest person in the world that he didnt get hit by a car!

On saturday he was boxed up and taken into the middle of nowhere with no houses in sight as i managed to borrow a field until tuesday, and iv managed ot book the same field for a week next year :)
 
Yes all were fine. I went up about 8pm on sat night and they were grazing happily amongst the plumes of colours in Bath. Didn't bat an eyelid. I think old chap was enjoying it, as he was laying down but looking up at them. The calves were suckling or grazing with mums and tbh, all was calm.

My dog didn't bat an eyelid as he sniffed for badger scent and tbh, people were actually walking dogs.

I guess in a city, you get used to weird noises. The worst HAS to be police/ambulance sirens.

I have now put it down to what one is used to.
 
We had lots of fireworks in the area on Friday and Saturday, older horses snoozed through it, the Youngster spent the evenings leaning on her door happily watching it all, getting frustrated when she couldn't quite see them! made me laugh
The cats just go into hiding in the house and sleep, but one of the poor dogs spent both evenings on the sofa with his head under a blanket. Thats his normal position whether it be gunshots, thunder or anything overly loud!
 
Holzdweaver said:
My Boy wasnt on friday night :(

He panicked as some idiot let them off right next to his field (he has been fine with all the other bangs over the last week). He went through electric fencing and ran the gate over, took off at a full gallop down a few minor roads, then straight across a busy junction and down a main road, before doubling back and coming back up the main road and galloping down a side road. By the time he had run out of road at the top of the hill outside somebodys front door, he was galloped out and let a lady drag him into a field by his rug.

Thankfully, all he had to show for it was a shallow cut on his front leg from the gate and a touch of lameness (then again galloping for nearly three miles on tarmac will do that!). I feel like the luckiest person in the world that he didnt get hit by a car!

On saturday he was boxed up and taken into the middle of nowhere with no houses in sight as i managed to borrow a field until tuesday, and iv managed ot book the same field for a week next year :)
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Oh god poor lad thankfully he was OK in the end and safely returned hope his cut heals and he is OK later on.

Just hate fireworks!!!
 
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