Strike to Counter Fireworks

The New Year festivities came and went, while I was busy with my newborn pups. I have not had time to check much news. Today, I found an interesting piece from Italy, published late last year.

There are often fireworks at New Year, in Italy just like in Sweden and other countries. Over the last years, there have been more and more fireworks and crackers in Sweden, even days and hours before and after the clock strikes twelve on New Year's night. This annoys humans, but more important is that it scares a lot of dogs and other animals. In our home city it sounds like there is a war going on for hours.

The news from Italy is a method that may counter the excessive use of fireworks. A woman in Naples, Italy, has called for a sex strike against men who use illegal fireworks. A lot of women have pledged to follow her advice. Since humans can have sex all year - not only twice a year when in heat - and men often want to have sex as often as they can all year, this method may very well work. For the sake of dogs scared of cracking noises in Naples, I hope it does. Then it may spread to Sweden as well.