Is it common at your place to have fireworks at Halloween?
Doesn't that destroy the spooky atmosphere?

I've never heard of halloween fireworks before.

Our girl is petrified of fireworks and we still haven't found a way to keep her calm.

In the UK, fireworks season runs from the weekend before Halloween until the weekend after 5th Nov, with near constant loud bangs at all hours of the evening and lots still happening at night, so she's absolutely miserable.

This year, we have drugs from the vets, a thunder vest, happy hoodie and have built her a blanket fort. She seems to be able to fall asleep best when there's loud music being played, so we used a Babymetal playlist during the peak hours of 7-9. She also seems to enjoy stoner metal, so Sleep's Dopesmoker worked well. Last year was Slipknot.

Here's her in happier times:

Who the heck shoots off fireworks on Halloween? Then again, I don't think I want to know.

At least the dog got through the ordeal.

Desensitising dogs to fireworks is possible, and a worthy endeavour.

Lovely dog btw, makes me want to get back into fostering.

Calming music ftw. It indeed helps a lot.

Poor boy, I had a dog that was terrified of fireworks, she would shiver every new years night as the fireworks went off.

One year we decided to try to buy a thundershirt for her, we expected it might help a just a bit but she was completely different, she was her usually goofy self even during the hights of the fireworks, it was amazing how much it helped her.

The only issue we had was that she was very reluctant to have it taken off when it needed a wash

for our cats what helps is CBD oil. it's specifically meant for calming animals, and comes in various concentrations, so you can adjust them to an animal's body weight. should have sensible concentrations and price/performance up to medium dogs, but of course light cats make it much easier to stretch a vial. it also comes in at the very least natural oil or salmon oil, depends on the animal which they like better. our cats don't like the salmon very much.

Consider yourself lucky, mine runs towards loud noises, and fireworks. She wants to be where the action is. She barks defiantly at lightning sometimes if we get caught in a downpour. Her breed is like that, I've seen 2 vids on big social media of this breed grabbing lit fireworks, one a volcano spouting sparks 4 feet high or whatever and bringing it into the doghouse.

I bought one of those pheromone plug-in things this year and it's worked a treat.

Awww, poor baby. <3

Do you live in a ratchet ghetto or a Republican shithole? I’ve never heard of Halloween fireworks…