I hate the 4th of July holiday

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Here is why it fucking sucked this year (it sucks every year)

We are moved into a new place. Dogs are anxious. There's boxes everywhere and dogs do not like thinking that they could fall at any moment. It's 190 degrees out. And we've got neighborhood assholes blasting off their pussified little firecrackers at 12:25 AM.

I spent $2500 to get my floors fixed. I'd prefer it if the dogs didn't piss on them. One of our dogs is scared shitless of firecrackers, we just learned. So she wouldn't take a piss. Which means she WILL take a piss in the house if I didn't figure something out.

If we throw a tennis ball and she gets it, she 100% will take a piss. (Note to Paul: not everytime. Just the first time.) This is great because if I can get her to chase the ball, she'll empty herself outside.

I can't go to the backyard because there is poured cement over the kitchen floor, and that is our way to the backyard. And these fucks won't stop throwing firecrackers.

I'm tempted to call the cops. What I end up doing is picking the golden up, carrying her over the cement into the backyard and throwing the ball. She's scared. She wants to go back inside. At some point though she DOES get the ball and take a piss. So we have some relief.

It took an hour.

I fucking fucking fucking hate this holiday.

[RealNC]

Why not hate dogs instead?

[ChainGangGuy]

Ahh, the things we do for love. <3

[Jizaboz]

I'm not crazy about it either. The city fireworks display is set off near my house. You can forget going anywhere from about 6:30-9:30. The barricade the main end of my road. Try to tell them you only live 4 houses form the block? FUCK YOU SIR, DRIVE 3 MILES OUT OF YOUR WAY TO ENTER THE ROAD FROM THE OTHER END.

Still, sounds worse on your end.

[Tdarcos]

I spent $2500 to get my floors fixed. I'd prefer it if the dogs didn't piss on them. One of our dogs is scared shitless of firecrackers, we just learned. ...
I'm tempted to call the cops.

Man, you sure are strict with this dog!

What I end up doing is picking the golden up, carrying her over the cement into the backyard and throwing the ball. She's scared. She wants to go back inside. At some point though she DOES get the ball and take a piss. So we have some relief.

From what you're telling me, it sounds like the dog was the one who got some relief!

[RealNC]

I can imagine Hancock, Franklin and Jefferson having a discussion that goes like, "Ah, let's not bother then. This is gonna annoy some dog owners in the future."

[AArdvark]

Now that you know the dogs are going to flip out during the Fourth, get them those dog tranks I seen at my vets. Wait, now I gotta look it up and everything..

K-9 Calm, I think it is. I assumed it was only for those little hyper fucks that spaz and wet all over everything whenever Aunt Muriel comes to call. I guess they have 'em for all sizes. My grandfather used to give his Irish setter some booze before the fireworks went off. I guess that works too.


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[gsdgsd]

It's the south, so everyone shoots off fireworks (and do for several days before and after the Fourth.) We doped our dog with some probably-illegal tranquilizers. He's a basset hound, so he's droopy at the best of times -- after he gets sedated, he looks like a cartoon dog from an anti-drug PSA. "If you do drugs, kids, you end up like Dopey Dog."

[Knuckles the CLown]

The fireworks start about June 1st where I live and continue through August. City trash just setting them off, once every 15 minutes, just a bang not even the cool colorful ones. Freaks my dog out.

I know who is doing it I tell them to stop, they never do then I call the cops. It's endless.

My dog has the steel will of a goddamn monk. I've tried everything, tranqs, drugs, louder noises in the house. He just ends up panting and whimpering for 15 minutes after every one. I end up blasting the AC and putting him under a blanket. But I have to be there or he isn't happy so it sucks.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I spent $2500 to get my floors fixed. I'd prefer it if the dogs didn't piss on them. One of our dogs is scared shitless of firecrackers, we just learned. ...
I'm tempted to call the cops.

Man, you sure are strict with this dog!

I was re-reading Paul's posts, and this one made me laugh out loud. Goddamn, where was this a year ago when we needed comedy around here?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I can imagine Hancock, Franklin and Jefferson having a discussion that goes like, "Ah, let's not bother then. This is gonna annoy some dog owners in the future."

This was also great. Man, this was a great thread.

John Hancock seems like the kind of asshole who would specifically start setting off fireworks on May 15th and go straight through the summer if he learned a neighbor had a dog.