Lost Dogs' home NYE fireworks

[bluecat*dancing]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/new-years-eve-goes-to-the-dogs-20160101-glxvz1.html

 New Year's Eve is the busiest time of the year for the Lost Dog's Home.

Sixty-five dogs were admitted to the North Melbourne shelter with around half reunited with their families. At the Cranbourne shelter, only 14 of the 40 dogs admitted have been collected.

Lost Dog's Home general manager for animal welfare David Cunliffe said it will take several days to reunite most families.

"It's a very busy night for admissions of dogs ... and it is entirely due to the noise of the fireworks and I think people often being out of the house when it's happening."

[imastawka]

It's just awful, Blue

I see poor terrified dogs running mindlessly along the main road, every year

No way will they stop, till either hit or exhausted

People don't think about their pets on NYE

[electric*mayhem*band]

Same here, and on Guy Fawkes Night (5th Nov). Lots of petrified and cowering dogs. And their ears are more attuned and sensitive than ours, so the sounds are magnified. Has to be said though, owners do seem to keep them indoors at such times, so you don't see them charging down the streets.

[bluecat*dancing]

A few years back, my old girl broke through a fence and two gates after illegal backyard fireworks scared her. She was missing for three days and was found further away than anticipated. The local rescue shelters had been inundated with terrified dogs and advised people to check in person because they had been unable to update their lists due to the sheer number. My neighbours' dog had panicked, smashed through a window and ended up being hit and killed by a car. The eldrly husband was devastated. Their sweet little dog used to have a nap with him very afternoon. Very sad. Those who partake in backyard fireworks should  be given hefty fines and thrown in jail.

I do like fireworks because they are so pretty.

[bluecat*dancing]

I remember Guy Fawkes night when I was a kid. We used to have so much fun. I remember going to the milk bar with my siblings to buy penny bungers, rockets and catherine wheels. We would have been aged between 5 and 11 years old.. There's no way on earth that I would have allowed my kids to do that. The things that kids used to be able to do makes it amazing how so many of us managed to survive into adulthood.

[cee-dee]

That was probably because parents took the time and trouble to instill some common sense?

[chameleon54]

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@bluecat*poledancing wrote:

A few years back, my old girl broke through a fence and two gates after illegal backyard fireworks scared her. She was missing for three days and was found further away than anticipated. The local rescue shelters had been inundated with terrified dogs and advised people to check in person because they had been unable to update their lists due to the sheer number. My neighbours' dog had panicked, smashed through a window and ended up being hit and killed by a car. The eldrly husband was devastated. Their sweet little dog used to have a nap with him very afternoon. Very sad. Those who partake in backyard fireworks should  be given hefty fines and thrown in jail.

I do like fireworks because they are so pretty.

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One of my dogs scaled a 2.7 mtr. fence and ran off one night when the local council had a fireworks display. He didnt return until the next day. Very worrying.

[chameleon54]

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@bluecat*poledancing wrote:

I remember Guy Fawkes night when I was a kid. We used to have so much fun. I remember going to the milk bar with my siblings to buy penny bungers, rockets and catherine wheels. We would have been aged between 5 and 11 years old.. There's no way on earth that I would have allowed my kids to do that. The things that kids used to be able to do makes it amazing how so many of us managed to survive into adulthood.

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Now many of the kids just sit around smoking dope and getting bored. It seems that everything I did in my teens is now illegal or not accepted by society.

We used to ride unregistered old trail bikes in the scrub. ( now national parks ).

We would trap rabbits and sell them to the local freezer for pocket money.

We would climb enormous trees to collect birds eggs. The rarer the better.

We would go spotlighting in  an old unregistered sand buggy, shooting rabbits and foxes, often driving down the backroads betweeen bush farms.

We would go down clay bush tracks after rain and practice sliding old cars around in the mud, often hitting trees and occasionally tipping the cars over. 

We would go camping in the scub ( now national parks ) and keep warm with very big "bushies"  ( bonfires ) often with a few fireworks.

We would explore ancient aboriginal camp sites and burial grounds. And yes we where very respectful for a  bunch of lads.

It was a lot different to todays helicopter parents with kids wrapped in cotton wool.

I can see why attitudes have changed to some of these things, but it was all pretty harmless and healthy fun for a kid. We lived in a fairly remote area and there wasnt the preasure on natural resources from weekend warriors in there shiny SUV,s like there is today. The more people there are, the more rules you need. As we become more overpopulated, the rules become more oppressive, stifling any sense of adventure or initiative.

Result, lots of bored kids without much hope or any sense of adventure or initiative.

[opmania]

Guy Fawkes day is still celebrated

In the UK and a few other countries

Fireworks, bonfires and burning effigies

Of Guy Fawkes.

Why would a tradition that has been

Running for hundteds of years be seen

Here as an illegal activity just because 

A faceless beaurocrat deemed it so.

Times are changing and in some cases

Not for the bettter.

The ability to think and act responsibly

Has been thwarted to the point that every

Single action is governed by stifling rules and

Regulations creating an unrealistic fear of

Law abiding citizens to stay within the 

Suffocating boundaries of the law.

[ecar3483]

Oooh! Dagnabbit! It's a gittin' so as a indiviual can't do nothin' no more!

All them laws and rules and reggy-lations about safety and then thar's bein' courteous to people and being a good citizen and has'n done to yerself as you you would do wit others...

Hoo Boy! I say, it gits me furly well steamed up, it does!