06/29/2024
Sure fireworks may be beautiful but they're not so beautiful for your pets or for the backyard stray and feral cats or for anyone suffering from military PTSD!!
BUY soundless fireworks and play music instead!!
https://www.purina.ca/articles/cat/care/how-keep-your-cat-safe-and-calm-during-fireworks
Animals hear fireworks as much as five to ten times more loudly than we humans do, because of their much more sensitive ear-drums.
Why? Well, the pitch of a sound is measured in Hertz (Hz), and the comparative hearing ranges of dogs, cats and humans are as follows:
Humans can hear from 20Hz (low pitch) up to about 23,000Hz (high pitch).
Dogs can hear from 60Hz up to about 45,000Hz (very high pitch).
Cats can hear from 45Hz up to about 64,000Hz (extremely high pitch).
Cats can hear sounds at least two and a half octaves higher than humans can. And this is why dogs and cats respond to very high pitch 'dog whistles' that humans can't even hear. The sound is too high pitched for us to hear, but still well within animals' hearing range.
Fireworks make an incredible noise in the higher frequencies - almost as much again as the noise that we humans can hear, so the effect for an animal is almost doubled to begin with.
At the same time, cats and dogs also hear much quieter intensities of sound than humans do. Sound intensity (volume) is measured in decibels (dB). Dogs can hear five times more acutely than humans, and cats hear about twice as acutely as dogs. A whisper weighs in at about 30dB, and a dog can hear that from almost three times as far away as a human can. Cats are even more sensitive than dogs to these soft sounds, which means they hear loud sounds as much as ten times more intensely than humans do.
Now we ask you: Why would you expose any animal to the sound of fireworks?!
If your hearing was ten - or even five - times better than it is now, would you enjoy the sound of a firework going off near you?
PLEASE SAY NO TO FIREWORKS
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