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Post by ntg on Oct 15, 2012 15:45:30 GMT
As you all know, the 5th November is nearly here! Now, I don't know about your goos, but I know mine go mental if the red kites or planes from the local air show go overhead. So I'd imagine fireworks won't be their favourite thing in the world!
My question is:
What does everyone do for their goos on bonfire night?
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Post by jenowuk on Oct 15, 2012 17:04:17 GMT
Hi, we live South Oxfordshire and have the Red Kites overhead constantly. I don't know if it's a a case of familiarity breeding contempt, but ours have never fussed about them! On bonfire night, we have a couple of sudden eeps and dives for 'safe' places when there was a particularly loud bang (interestingly, last year this included the inside of my dressing gown...when I was wearing it!) But on the whole, ours are really chilled. Thankfully!
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Post by misspixie89 on Oct 23, 2012 18:05:12 GMT
Hello.... I often drop things =[ And ours run and find a safe place. I stand next to there cage and talk to them... I often stroke there nose =] They settle after a while
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Post by ntg on Oct 23, 2012 18:08:37 GMT
Over ours, the fireworks are constant for the majority of the night unfortunately, so I think they will be very unhappy little fellows. Not to mention two dogs which aren't keen. I was wondering if covering them over might calm them down and keep them feeling secure if they do start to stress out (it'll be our first firework experience with them so I don't know how they'll react).
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Post by billyalex on Oct 23, 2012 19:57:35 GMT
I think last year ours didnt get on too well either. I stupidly decided that after having a storm all day and thunder (which they didnt like) I would clean them out and hoover around their cage while the fireworks went off. They had been jumpy all night anyways. we had only had the youngest about 4 or 5 months When I went to clean them out I did what I always do which is to try and get them all in one half of the cage and clean that out before then moving them back to do the other half and then opening up the full cage. I had done half of the cage and then tried to get them all to go to the top so I could clean out the bottom half. 7 of them went upstairs easily but one of them didnt. The poor little mite was so stressed and I didnt even notice! I tried to pick her up but she ran from me.... So I chased her..... Eventually (I am shamed to say) I backed her into a corner and picked her up. Got her out the cage and went to go and put her in the top half. She was wriggling then tried squeeking all of them warning signs which i dutifully ignored. So she tried the only other way of telling me to let go of her that she knew and sunk her teeth into my knuckle. I screamed at her and pretty much threw her back into the top of the cage as my finger was bleeding really badly. After I had calmed myself down enough to look in the cage, the others were all running around the cage happily exploring the new layout and she was just sat in the hammock by herself. I felt terrible :-( and obviously, so did she. Once I had cleaned myself up and put a plaster on, I offered her some oats as a piece offering and she took them from me cautiously. After about 5 mins of stocking and me saying sorry repeatedly she let me pick her up and she sat and cuddled me for a bit. She obviously felt as bad as I did.
She has never bitten me again and I have never ignored the warning signs. I should have know as she did everything she could to tell me she was scared and ask me to stop and I ignored her.
After that, the fireworks really started, so I put on the tv which is near their cage and they are used to its sound. It was enough to cover most of the fireworks and made them a lot calmer.
I learned a lot of lessons that night! I should have not cleaned them out when they were clearly unhappy and I shouldnt of tried to pick her up. THe good thing is she forgave me but I felt terrible for weeks!!!!
Hope this helps xxx
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Post by dyzired on Nov 11, 2012 13:37:45 GMT
May I ask what bonfire night is? Lol
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Post by billyalex on Nov 11, 2012 13:43:54 GMT
Its a UK thing - might even only be a British thing. On November the 5th 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up our government and the houses of parliament. He was caught and sentenced to death but had he succeeded, it would have caused more damage and destruction than the UK had or has ever known as it would have completely wiped out our government, most of our laws and all sorts of other things.... Bonfire night is the way we celebrate foiling the gunpower plot. We have fireworks and bonfires to celebrate and we put a 'guy' on top of the fire. Its not a public holiday but we do 'celebrate' with fireworks and bonfire every year. We do not have special food or anything but many people associate toffee apples with the night en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_FawkesHope this helps. Its easy for us to forget its a UK only thing xxx
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Post by ntg on Nov 11, 2012 13:48:21 GMT
Lol it's basically celebrating the night a guy called Guy Fawkes tried and failed to blow up Parliament on 5th Nov 1605. If you've seen V for Vendetta, the mask they wear are Guy Fawkes masks and the plan goes back to that.
He was caught in the foundations/tunnels below parliament with barrels of gunpowder. So now we celebrate every 5th November with fireworks and bonfires (although bonfires are now frowned upon as they can start fires and people are generally stupid and throw unsuitable stuff on them so the fire brigade get called out to put out loads of them every year).
Apparently after all that worry, the degus couldn't have cared less lol.
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Post by animalmadchloe on Nov 11, 2012 15:44:31 GMT
Ours didnt notice the fire works!! They don't seem too bothered by noise, even when they're cage was being built and there was drilling and hammering going in they didnt really take any notice :-) brave boys
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Post by dyzired on Nov 11, 2012 16:06:00 GMT
Well that's an interesting holiday sounds like fun!
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Post by billyalex on Nov 11, 2012 17:30:10 GMT
holiday! I wish.... We dont get any time off or anything. Its not a public holiday although i really wish we did!
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Post by animalmadchloe on Nov 11, 2012 18:35:59 GMT
I missed bonfire night this year lol no fireworks nothing lol it's a pain where we live adults outside the pub were letting bangers and things off in the street the other day out side shops and my house!! Idiots and they wonder why people get killed !!
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Post by 36riffin on Nov 11, 2012 21:56:24 GMT
we do it in Ireland too haha just want to clear that up
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Post by Lrak on Nov 12, 2012 9:16:37 GMT
Bonfire night is the way we celebrate foiling the gunpower plot Is it not the night we commiserate the foiling of the gunpowder plot? ;D
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Post by listracian on Nov 12, 2012 10:04:24 GMT
Just thought I would drop this off here: epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/40401It's been making its way most round dog forums, as I am sure anyone with a dog who doesn't like fireworks dreads this time of year! Anyway the point being as someone put it on the agility forum, 'they are as easy as anything to get hold of but possibly more dangerous then guns'. So please sign the petition. Don't mind organised displays just stopping them from being sold to the public
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Post by ntg on Nov 12, 2012 11:20:00 GMT
Bonfire night is the way we celebrate foiling the gunpower plot Is it not the night we commiserate the foiling of the gunpowder plot? ;D Lol ten points to Gryffindor Listracian, I agree they shouldn't be sold to just anyone, somehow loads of kids around our area manage to get hold of them!
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