I realize I should have made this post BEFORE new year's eve, but honestly, I had forgotten all about this blog, so here I am now, and I shall talk about FIREWORKS.
You see, I'm not exactly big on hate. We could say I hate hate, but that would be a bit paradoxical. Hate is a bad thing, and it's not healthy to hate, so I try not to. But I cannot HELP but hating fireworks! Those dreadful, horrible things! But WHY do you hate fireworks, you ask me, after all, they're so SHINY AND SPARKLY AND PRETTY!!! Well, I'll tell you WHY I hate fireworks! They might be SHINY AND SPARKLY AND PRETTY, but here's what they ALSO are: NOISY. Fireworks are VERY VERY NOISY. And now you might be thinking "why is she whining so much about noise, it's not as if it were deafening or anything of that sort! And besides, there are noisiest things!". Well, here's the truth: I am not particularly bothered by the noise, after all, there really ARE noisiest things, and fireworks really ARE very pretty. But here's something most dog owners know and you might not: We, humans, aren't particularly bothered by this noise (not most of us, at least), but I'll tell you who IS: dogs (most of them, at least). Some more, some less, but in general, dogs are not only bothered, but they are TERRIFIED of fireworks!
Here I'll talk about MY dogs, and I'm sure other dog owners will also relate to what I'll say (or in fact, write). My dogs are usually calm (even though one of them barks to basically everything that moves), due to they're old age. But every time they hear the sound of a firework, they start barking and/or howling like mad. Every New Year's eve it's the same stress, where we have to stay outside with the dogs, petting and calming them. My dogs are not so hysterical at the sound of fireworks, but I have heard of dogs who run to find somewhere to hide, sometimes even getting lost or accidentally hurting themselves, all of that because of that sound.
So I am PLEADING to you: next time you want to celebrate a special occasion, such as New Year's eve, think about the poor doggies and consider celebrating in another, less prejudicial to others, way, such as with CAKE, a marvelous option for celebrating anything!
But since we cannot rely only on people's good will and compassion, some genius in this world invented an incredibly easy way to protect our dogs and calm them down a bit during fireworks. Here's where most of the information to follow came from. The rest is knowledge I acquired before I started writing this post (a.k.a before I started worrying about remembering my sources).
So this method is called a "half wrap" (there was another, more technical name to it, but I can't seem to remember OR find it anywhere. If anyone knows what it is please tell me), and it consists in wrapping your animal in a firm, relatively wide (and long, depending on your dog's size) strip of cloth, as showed in the picture:
I myself have never tested this trick (I tried to this New Year's eve, but I used pharmaceutical bandages, which weren't wide and firm enough), so I can't testify that it works, but it doesn't cost anything to try, right?
Hope I have helped at least a little bit to solve the Firework Drama (even though everybody has probably already seen the information I'm giving somewhere else, so...)! But seriously, people: less fireworks, more compassion!
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