I have to say that I really don't enjoy the 4th any more because of the terror it causes our animals.

We live outside of town but still have close neighbors. For 51 weeks of the year, that is great. But many of them can't satisfy themselves with 'normal' fireworks and have to obtain the biggest, loudest ones they can find--stick of dynamite loud.

Our neighbor's dog was locked in a pen while they were gone and they asked us to feed him. That poor dog tore his lips to pieces and lost some teeth trying to bite his way out of that pen when the fireworks started going off.