Ginger-lyn Summer wrote:

Why do so many people find it necessary, not just on, but for days
before and after, the 4th of July, to set off incredibly loud
fireworks in crowded neighborhoods? Don't they consider the risk of
setting someone else's home on fire, injuring animals, children or
themselves, giving someone with PTSD severe problems, or causing a
heart attack in an elderly person?

Not to mention *causing* PTSD in dogs? Two friends of mine loaded up
their dogs in their station wagon and left town this morning, with
intentions of coming back well past midnight, when hopefully the worst
will be over. Oh, kids'll continue to set them off for the next several
days I'm sure, but it won't be so frequent. Poor dogs! I've seen them
at my friends' house in previous years, around this time, cowering under
the furniture.

For some reason, my cats are pretty much undisturbed by the firecrackers
going off. I hope they don't get scared later this evening.

Joyce