31/12/2025
🚫 FIREWORKS - PLEASE TAKE NOTE ⚠️
Paw please make sure your animals are safe and kept inside on New Years Eve. Every New Years eve we take in some stray collies.
🙏🏻💜Please take the necessary precaution to protect your collies and all pets from the fireworks:
🐾One way to ensure that your dog will be more relaxed and calmer on New Year’s Eve is to tire them out a bit during the day. Take your regular dog walk and go a little bit extra. Be extra cautious though as sadly some people test out fireworks ahead of New Year’s Eve or set them off even before it’s dark out. Loud noises (especially a sudden bang) might scare your dog and trigger their instinct to run away. So please keep your dog on a leash.
🐾Buy a new toy; if a dog has something new to play with, they are far less likely to care about what’s going on around them. Maybe try a licking matt, snuffle matt.
🐾Take new pics of your pets, just in case they go missing, in order to help network and be reunited with you.
🐾Make sure your pets microchip details are up to date.
🐾Make sure your contact details on your pet's id tag are correct. Update phone numbers on id tag or write it on the inside of the collars .
🐾Make a list of all emergency vet, animal welfare organization's telephone numbers, keep in a place easily at hand.
🐾Get tranquillizers now, don't wait till the last minute. Calmeeze tablets or liquid from your vet or pet supplies stores. CBD oil. let your vet guide you what to take if your dog is on other medication.
🐾 Keep pets INDOORS and switch the TV/Radio on with soft music. Create some white Noice, you can put the tumble dryer on with tennis balls inside to drown out the fireworks noise.
🐾Ensure the presence of at least one family member around your pets throughout the evening, if at all possible.
🐾 Create a safe space for your pets with a blanket. It can be a cupboard, under a bed etc.
🐾 Use a Body Wrap to help reduce anxiety in dogs in the stressful time during firework. Or use a bandana to cover their ears.
🐾 Please consider our birdlife & wildlife too they also scared by the fireworks.
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Now that you know what to do on New Year’s Eve to keep your dog safe and sound – we wish you a a happy New Year's Eve celebration. Thank you! Let’s choose kindness over fireworks. Be responsible. Think before you celebrate, and don’t put any animals in harm’s way. A safer, quieter New Year saves lives and helps us in rescue too as we sadly have to again pick up the pieces.
