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Happy Fourth of July! I've shared my tips to prep pets for firecrackers, but for those of you who can hear them from your homes, are your pets ever affected?
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Fireworks can be very frightening to a dog . . .
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Fourth of July means fireworks! I don't want to rain on your parade (since the Fourth is often celebrated with parades, too), but the loud pops and bangs of fireworks can cause serious hearing damage.
When the delicate structures in your ear called hair cells — sensory cells located in your inner ears responsible for converting sound energy into electrical signals — are damaged, they never regenerate and cannot be repaired.
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An East Sussex woman is claiming Heather Mills' fireworks killed her Weimaraner, Glow, seen above. The incident occurred last weekend during the 20-minute firework conclusion of the birthday celebration for Mills' daughter with Paul McCartney, Beatrice.
Sandra Rowbury (who lives yards away) says her five-year-old dog was terrified by the loud explosions and suffered a "fatally bloated gut," dying only a few hours after the birthday party ended. 
Do we need to have someone light a fire under this woman's ass to get her to follow through with a single...oh, I see. Right. It's already been done. 
Remember when I told you about what happens when a woman has an orgasm? Well being that it's the 4th of July, that got me thinking about another delectable thought - multiple orgasms! While some women have a hard time even having one orgasm during sex, many have been known to have more than one during a sexual escapade.
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If you missed the (non-sensationalized) news last week, then you missed a very important lesson on fireworks safety. Waving skinny wooden sticks with erratic sparks of fire shooting from them is not child's play, folks! Only dummies engage in that kind of behavior, literally. 
I'm sure most of you are planning on catching a public fireworks show this 4th of July. Watching them can be really exciting, but did you know you can risk noise-induced hearing loss?
Here's how loud some common summer sounds are:
Having a conversation: 60 decibels
Mowing the lawn: 95
Riding a motorcycle: 110
Listening to a live concert: 120
Exploding your own firecrackers (which is NOT safe by the way): 150
Watching fireworks: 130 to 190, depending on how far away you are
10 seconds of a loud fireworks display may be just as dangerous for your ears as an hour of pushing the lawn mower.
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