I like fireworks shows, but there’s a huge difference between the professional condoned shows and the erratic illegal fireworks by neighbors. Most of the time as Liz points out they are going off for days and nights preceding and following the actual day. Mostly they are just noisemakers. Here, last night there was about an hour and a half of booms load enough that I could hear it. Fortunately my cat is oblivious to noise that’s outside of the house. But it’s vexing and illegal. If it was confined to one place and day people wouldn’t complain so much. It’s the reckless disregard of others setting off fireworks for days that is aggravating and so dangerous for animals. . If people kept it to one day at sundown it would be far easier to cope with for both animals and people with ptsd. Then there’s the fire risk. In todays climate that’s no small threat.