Scared Dogs and Fireworks in Phoenix

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2. My cat does not like fireworks, either.

Fortunately, she is not afraid of them. There is a park in town where the community's official fireworks are set off. The park is not visible from where I live, but the sky above it is. The sound is loud enough to be heard from my apt building.

So the cat jumps onto the windowsill and growls at the fireworks until they are over.

As a teen, I had a black lab mix. He ran around the yard playing with us when we had picnics there on the 4th. But as soon as fireworks started somewhere in the neighborhood, he raced into a corner of our garage and hid. We always let him inside the house and closed the windows to help blunt the sound for him.

I'd prefer to see communities hold one official fireworks display and ban all others. One is enough instead of several going off all over the place, without warning, for a week before and a week after.