re: Checking in if your Neighborhood is currently under attack

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Yes and my dog is pissed about it. Scared shitless and I have to deal with it until 10pm when they shut it down.

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I have a former police K9 and it's sad to watch all her instincts and training give her such anxiety during fireworks. She's just dying to go attack and defend, to the point that she's miserable in her own skin. She's just pacing and whimpering and tapping on the back door constantly, she wants to go fight it so bad.

I made the mistake of letting her out in the back yard last year, and she literally made herself sick from sprinting from one side of the yard to the other trying to get to all the "booms" coming from all angles. Even after she got sick, her obsession and training kept her anxious and sprinting around. I had to go out and literally wrangle her, scoop her up, and carry all 85lbs of her inside like a baby.

I also have her littermate brother who was not a police K9 but is quite a bit larger and more intimidating looking. He has the same anxiety but is a lot more aloof about it. His idea of "safety" is to sit his 96 pound arse on my 5ft tall wife and cower all night

I wish I could explain it to them that we aren't in any danger, especially her. She just wants to keep us safe so bad, it goes against everything she's ever known and been taught to chill out at times like this