Private fireworks should be banned

There has been a birthday party going on in a neighbouring street for most of the evening. The music and voices puzzled Saffron and Kandi when I took them out for a walk earlier but they just shrugged it off. Nearly an hour ago I took them for the last walk of the day and the party was still going on but this time they ignored it, until the first firework went off with a god almighty bang. It startled me and terrified them so much pulled their leads out of my hand and ran off towards home as fast as their feet could carry them. By the time I got in sight of my front door there was no sign of them but Saffron scuttled round the uphill corner and had almost made it to the house before two more rockets went off, flashes and whistles this time, and she shot back up and around the corner again. I followed as fast as I could praying that they were huddling at Beth's front door. They weren't they were huddling in side her neighbour's house with said neighbours, who are animal people, trying to comfort them. They had brought their grandchildren out to watch the fireworks and had left the front door open in case the youngest got frightened and wanted to go back in. Brian went next door to Beth's to get her to open her back door and then came back to hand the dogs over the fence to her so that we could stay in familiar, for the dogs, surroundings with out having to come to the front of the house while there was any danger of more fireworks. It took them almost half an hour to get to the point of getting off the settee on which the three of us were sitting leaving almost a third it vacant(they were both huddled as close to me as they could get) to get a biscuit from Beth. Kandi brought hers back to eat on the settee in safety so I decided to try getting them home. It took a lot of soft talk and persuasion and a little brute force to get them round the corner to get them home and now a full hour after the first band that sent them flying they have stopped panting and Saffron is dozing, Kandi is still alert and keeping her eyes on me. I would like to go and shoot my distant neighbour if I could be sure exactly who it was but next time there are sounds of a party we are staying in doors.