it's that time of year that ruby hates and i have mixed emotions about. ruby is truly terrorized by firecrackers. when she hears a firecracker something short circuits in her brain and she turns into a panic stricken beast. she'll try and squeeze behind our fridge, behind the washing machine, behind the hot water tank, behind the furnace etc. of course she can do damage behind all this stuff so i have to catch her and lock her up in a safe place. she's not a happy beast when locked up.
i don't know who to curse more, chinese merchants or indians. firecrackers are supposedly illegal here but the utes have no trouble buying them from chinese stores or one of the nearby indian reservations.
i just have to tell ruby to think of basking in the summer sun.
on the bright side i'll be buying a shit load of half price candy come monday morning.
i love you spooky sons of bitches.
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I don't suppose anyone's trained a dog to wear ear plugs. Could raw meat work as a distraction?
Even when I was young I thought fireworks was kind of stupid, those are the years we are supposed to be buying homes, raising kids, having fun in safe and sane ways and shit like that.
Not pissing our money away on fireworks, over those years I spent damn little money on them, just went to the public fireworks.
Now I just pretty much hate them cuz like you said, they bother so many critters. And they are polluting as hell.
They can only shoot them off here for about a week during the 4th of July, I go camping on the 4th of July.
I haven't been in the mood for candy lately. I'll just keep kids out of my yard with a BB gun tomorrow night.
On the bright side, I like it when I hear about a dozen monkeys blowing themselves up in a fireworks factory.
I fucking hate fireworks...poor ruby dooby..can you get doggie downers for her?...give her a big ole texas hug for me..
.can you get doggie downers for her?.
Yes, or they can go camping in a no fireworks area.
Fire works are not to be used in Ohio except the big 4th shows run by the cities. All you can use here are sparklers and smoke bombs.
I can go two miles from my house and buy any fireworks I want in a block house building housing a fireworks store. You have to go out of state to set them off though. Then there are the idiots shooting off guns to celebrate in their yards in the middle of town. They don't seem to understand that what goes up come down and can hurt.
Maybe Ruby was abused by fireworks in her earlier life.
gorilla - she won't even look at raw steak when the firecrackers start.
billy - maybe you could shoot the feckin utes with your bb gun.
yellowdog - i tried to drug her but when the drugs kicked in she started groaning and staggering around the house, almost worse than the firecrackers.
mr wit - well at least we don't have fools shooting up the neighborhood with guns.
Poor Ruby. I think about when I have anxiety and what it does to me. Granted I don't want to hide behind the fridge because what is back there is probably even scarier. But I do want to hide in bed with the covers over my head. I dedicated my Lint Ball story to you...go read it. :)
I feel sorry for her and you, I know a freaked out pit can be like a bull in a china shop.
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