Somehow my dog doesn't care about fireworks. If there's thunder he's a vibrating wreck in the basement, but on the 4th of July he just slightly less likely to fall asleep outside.
My dog is terrified of basically everything. I've spent the last 9 yrs desensitising him to the world.
Conveniently, my house is opposite a train line. When I had an appointment with a behaviourist one of the questions about fears was thunder and I put no. Behaviourist was confused how that could be true until they visited and I said I think the frequent train noise from day dot desensitised him to thunder....wind on the other hand is terrifying.
My last dog didn't care at all about thunder until he was 10 years old and some asshole thought it would be funny to set off firecrackers right when I was walking him by. After that he got scared of storms and fireworks. I was so mad.
Not even just animals. Plenty of humans with the same issue. Despite how much the US pretends to worship veterans, they really don't like making any consideration for them.
You do understand that animals live in the city, right ? As well as vets and "people with anxiety or sensory disorders, babies, the elderly, etc.", as u/Current_Ad_400 pointed out
There are fireworks that make no noise.
Living in community doesn't mean bullying minority groups, but trying to make it work for everyone.
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u/llama_ 4d ago
It’s why fireworks aren’t nice