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31-10-2010, 03:44 PM   #1

Please Take Care!


It's that time of the year again......fireworks, sparklers and huge bonfires. This coming week will probably be full of fireworks being let off every night..

Most of the accidents at this time of the year happen to children and pets, so please take care with your little ones.

Also, make sure your all animals are safely indoors after dark. Every year animals suffer physically and mentally during November as a result of noisy firework displays and inconsiderate people. Turn the radio or television up louder to help drown the noise of what's going on outside...

It's far better to have a safe pet than a traumatised one.

Enjoy yourselves but please stay safe everyone!



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31-10-2010, 04:06 PM   #2

Re: Please Take Care!


Amen to that Mags.



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31-10-2010, 04:53 PM   #3

Re: Please Take Care!


Wise words, Mags!!



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31-10-2010, 04:53 PM   #4

Re: Please Take Care!


I so agree with you Mags. This will be my new babes first taste of any strange noises in their world. I hope the neighbours are as quiet as last year.

My hens don't seem to bother. Last year I kept going out to check them - they just looked at me as if to say 'what is wrong with you?'



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31-10-2010, 05:31 PM   #5

Re: Please Take Care!


I totaly agree it was about now I used to fight to keep Oscar indoors and he used to scheme to get out its the one time of year I do not mind not having cats. Although as they got older they could not hear the bangs and were fascinated by the lights in the sky.....................

Sal is oblivious unless a really loud bang then she woofs and goes back to sleep.



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31-10-2010, 06:36 PM   #6

Re: Please Take Care!


I've got to figure out how to lock the cat flap. Where's that Operator's Manual?????



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31-10-2010, 08:22 PM   #7

Re: Please Take Care!


Can you move something heavy in front of it? I remember a few years back Mags' Cassie was insistent on getting out and she blocked it somehow ... we were making "Alcatraz" jokes ......



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31-10-2010, 08:58 PM   #8

Re: Please Take Care!


They have started here already. Oliver jumps (as do I), but he seems ok at the moment. Wish they were banned.



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31-10-2010, 09:52 PM   #9

Re: Please Take Care!


It's one of those microchip ones and is meant to be able to be locked both ways, even for cats with the chip. Can't be that hard to programme. We do have a chest we could put in front - but it's an heirloom from OH's great-grandfather and could get badly scratched, so I would rather just manage the programming!!!



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01-11-2010, 09:01 PM   #10

Re: Please Take Care!


IMO the general public shouldn't be allowed to buy fireworks. My lot aren't too bothered but I like to be with them as my Belgian Shepherd is nervy when i am not about anyway.



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