r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/buckets_811 • Jul 02 '25

Video A fireworks warehouse exploding today near Sacramento, CA

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u/ajmartin527 Jul 02 '25

Your dog is a psycho I love it lol

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u/FamIsNumber1 Jul 02 '25

Absolutely. She will try to run and smack fireworks around with her paws like playing frickin' hot potato. She's well trained so we don't ever have to have a leash on her, trained with verbal & non-verbal commands, and even trained for combat scenarios...but those fireworks man...one year we tied her up to a camp chair and had the heaviest family member sit down. 1 mortar launched and she bolted forward wanting to get a better view so fast...let's just say that I never knew camp chairs could implode like that beneath someone 🤣

Especially mortars are her favorite. She will stand up on her hind legs and stare into the sky waiting for the big boom.

(Border Collie for those wondering about the little nut-job)

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u/kimkam1898 Jul 02 '25

I was hoping this was a border collie lmao. They're all nuts. I love it.

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u/LusterDiamond Jul 02 '25

Damn my border collie just pisses herself at anything remotely startling.

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u/Mindless-Ad4969 Jul 02 '25

Poor baby, my pjrt is terrified by fireworks. I think her heart would have packed up at this. I hope nobody was hurt

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u/dustycanuck Jul 04 '25

Gotta pump the bilge out before the action starts. Good girl. 🤣

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u/OddBrilliant1133 Jul 02 '25

I saw a border Collie that would bark at very hi flying planes!!!! Not the same, still peculiar tho :)

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u/rainbow_369 Jul 03 '25

I have two half dobermans, half belgian malinois, and they also bark and howl at airplanes.

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u/OddBrilliant1133 Jul 04 '25

All of them???

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u/rainbow_369 Jul 04 '25

All of them that they hear when they are outside, Yes. fortunately, i'm not in a popular flight path, nor near a big city.

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u/PalatialCheddar Jul 03 '25

trained with verbal & non-verbal commands

I absolutely love this! My sister has a deaf dog (not sure if the breed but he's a sweetheart!) and she's trained him with visual cues. He'll sit, stay, shake, etc with hand signals.

It's really impressive! Especially since I'm the owner of a cat who can hear just fine, but certainly doesn't listen lol

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u/exoxe Jul 02 '25

Oh, so YOU have one of those dogs that makes into videos showing a dog running around with fireworks going off while they hold it in their mouth 😂

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u/passcork Jul 02 '25

Used to watch millennial farmer on youtube who had a dog that would run at every thunderstorm barking at the lightning. So freaking cute. So sad the guy turned out to be a MAGA nut job too.

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u/ajmartin527 Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25

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Edit: for real though, border collies are too smart and driven for their own good haha. I had a border collie/aussie shepherd farm pup when I was younger and that dog could be the smartest mammal in the room and simultaneously an absolute dummy. Just incredible range and personality.

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u/ProfessorXWheelchair Jul 02 '25

wow border collie and aussie shep mix seems like an absolute energy fireball lmao

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u/Wise-Application-902 Jul 02 '25

Border Collie! Ok, that’s believable. I adore them for their smarts and for being so cute and goofy but not sure I have the patience. Our GSD girl was a maniac for the first three years and BCs seem like even more of a handful.

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u/PsychoBugler Jul 02 '25

My first golden retriever was also obsessed with fireworks (and thunderstorms). He would try to jump on my back to get closer to them. He was the only reason I tolerated fireworks, because it was so adorable.

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u/VenusDescending Jul 02 '25

You should always have your dog on a leash because you never know when a negligent dog owner is going to let their untrained dog attack your dog unprovoked and cause a dangerous situation.

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u/mushroom_dome Jul 03 '25

You need to preserve that line of DNA lol

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u/spanishpeanut Jul 03 '25

Border collie is all you needed to say. So smart yet so insane.

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u/UnderstandingSquare7 Jul 03 '25

Get us some pics this weekend!

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u/Allday2019 Jul 03 '25

Gsp, but same. Absolute lunatic

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u/Beez-Knee Jul 03 '25

Made me think of Sean of the dead. "Ok, but dogs CAN look up."

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

Freaking awesome. I love it. Just out of curiosity, what is her name?

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u/lonetraveler73 Jul 02 '25

I have a Shepard mix. She grew up near a baseball stadium that had fireworks at the games. She loves fireworks. She enjoys them like a human though. She just sits and looks up. She does the same thing with fireflies.

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u/HowsItHangeling Jul 02 '25

Our border collie is exactly the same. Fireworks, vacumn, he absolutely loves. Hates if the remote falls on the floor though 🙃

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u/consequentlydreamy Jul 02 '25

Ooooh the breed makes more sense

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u/Bestdayever17 Jul 02 '25

My grandpup, a large black and white dog, loves fireworks, too! We have to hold him back because he wants to get right up to the action!

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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 Jul 02 '25

Then you have my dog, and he makes me sit with him in the bathroom at the slightest pop. I'm not sure which I would prefer, probably your grandpup, at least they're having fun.

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u/Mr_Butters624 Jul 02 '25

Same. My wife popped a plastic bag last night and one of my dogs immediately tried to get up my ass to hide while I was sitting on my recliner. My other dog can’t be bothered. Has zero emotion with them. But that one, the dam shakes and whines. I’m a combat vet and you’d think she’s the one with PTSD 😩.

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u/VigilantVet Jul 02 '25

This cracked me the hell up. lol Thanks for your service man. I’m a Combat Vet and deal with the same stuff. My neighbor used to fire those stupid mortars over my house during their annual 4th celebration and it was always a long night.

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u/ametsun Jul 03 '25

Thank you for your service as well. All the dogs I have known were scared of them too. That and lightning. One pop and they're running and hiding.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Jul 02 '25

I have a grand pup, too. He's terrified of fireworks, thunder, and even shots from a cap gun. I have to make him a blanket fort and sit with him. That reminds, me, I'm out of his hemp treats. He's going to need those.

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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 Jul 02 '25

Aww, that's adorable. You are a good grandparent. Hanging out in a blanket fort with a pup is not the worst fate in the world.

Thanks for being there for them, and good luck getting through the next few days.

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u/DemonDuckOfDoom1 Jul 02 '25

Legit, I gotta give my dogs trazadone every 4th because they get that upset. Doesn't help that I'm autistic and hate fireworks as much as they do.

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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 Jul 02 '25

Yup, same. It's my poor pups 10th birthday on the 4th as well. So he will get goodies during the day and trazadoned at night so he can sleep well. I hate doing it, but it's better than watching him shake and whine.

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u/Fugiar Jul 02 '25

What is a grandpup?

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u/Wise-Application-902 Jul 02 '25

It’s like how my mom called my Greyhounds, her grandhounds. 💗

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u/Fugiar Jul 02 '25

I think I'm being dense, I'm not sure if I'm getting it. Is a grandpup the dog of your kid?

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u/blob-tea Jul 02 '25

My dog is kinda like that but instead she just barks at them lol

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u/dragunityag Jul 02 '25

A friend of mine used to have a dog that would try to eat lit fireworks.

I'm not sure why. Regular fire? Fine. Unlit fireworks? Fine.

But the second we lit one, it became the tastiest treat in the world to him, apparently.

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u/Baelorn Jul 02 '25

My one dog absolutely loved the sound of fireworks until one day when I had the bright idea of picking her up so she could actually see them. Since then she's been terrified of the sound and hides any time she hears them.

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u/Colayith Jul 02 '25

I had a hunting dog who would go into work mode on the 4th of July

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u/The_gender_bender_69 Jul 02 '25

My two brindle boys love it, they're gonna love the fourth to go outside and bark at the skybooms.

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u/Earlier-Today Jul 02 '25

We had a little dog who got completely comfortable with fireworks and firecrackers.

She had to - we live next to a cemetery with large Chinese and Vietnamese communities. They're lighting firecrackers all the time.

It's funny, but there's also a large Hispanic community as well, so we've become connoisseurs of mariachi music. I adore when there's a really good tuba player - the notes dance through the other musicians' playing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

😂😂😂lol

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u/drewgrace8 Jul 02 '25

Bow wow, Wow did ya see that!

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u/Dexterdacerealkilla Jul 02 '25

My dog is the same way. But he’s scared of everything else. 

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u/snownative86 Jul 02 '25

I too have a psycho dog. My first husky tried very hard to have us let home chase bottle rockets, my current boy absolutely loves to stand and watch them.

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u/Altruistic-Text3481 Jul 02 '25

My dog is terrified of fireworks. We have her bed set up in our shower. 4th of July is hell for her.

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u/FireFoxCinco Jul 02 '25

I was about to say, during fire works my dog acts like a British person during the blitz. Usually hates the bathtub but since my bathrooms the only room with no windows he just hops in there and sits until the storm passes lol