New Year Pet Tip: Simple Trick To Calm Your Pet Through Firecrackers

New Year’s eve–especially in the Philippines– is a love-hate relationship. Basically, we are thrilled at the joy of welcoming a brand new year full of brand new experiences, opportunities, blessings and possibilities. What we do not like however is the impending threat to our beloved animals we love and care for so dearly.

Yes, it’s that time of year again, when our furry little love bugs would hide and scurry their furry posteriors  in the closet, behind the fridge or anywhere they feel safe.

Why do dogs hate firecrackers?

Based from what we learned from an article on PoochPalsPetCare (.com) dogs hate firecrackers obviously because of the high intensity sound. Dogs have very sensitive hearing and they hear firecrackers 10x the intensity of how us humans hear it. Also, we humans understand it, the sound and all, based from society. We also connect it to something cheerful and joyful but our pets, do not.

We found this very helpful tip online:



Photo is from doggiedrawings.net

YAAAAAY!!! Try this little trick even through thunderstorms and such and let us know if it works!

What are other tips you can suggest for our pets to remain calm and help them through New Year’s?

VIDEO: Pastillas Girl’s message to mom’s killer

• Pastillas Girl has a message to her mother’s killer


• An unknown gunman shoots her mother


• The victim sustains a fatal gunshot wound in the back of her head

MANILA, Philippines – An emotional Angelica Jane Yap, popularly known as “Pastillas Girl faced the media to relay a message to her mother’s killer.

According to an article published by ABS-CBN News, Pastillas Girl said in an interview with“Umagang Kay Ganda” on Tuesday, December 1: “Sana nakakatulog siya sa gabi sa ginawa niya.” [I hope he can still sleep at night after what he did.]

The victim, Teresa Yap, also known as “Teteng,” sustained a fatal gunshot wound in the back of her head  on Sunday night, November 29.

Yap together with one of her daughters and a niece were about to eat in a roadside eatery in Tagaytay Street in Caloocan when an unknown man suddenly approached her from behind; shooting her at close range.

The gunman immediately fled the scene of the crime.

Th victim was brought to the Chinese General Hospital but was pronounced dead at 9:20 p.m.

Pastillas Girl went to the hospital from a music video shoot in Bulacan after she learned what happened to her mother.

She described her mother as a strong woman with a pure heart.

“Sa kanya ko namana ‘yung pagiging matapang. Iyakin siya pero talagang pure heart ang meron ang mommy ko,” she said. [I got my strength from her. She easily cries but she has a pure heart.]

She added that she will always remember how her mother defended her against her bashers.

The elder Yap appeared on  “It’s Showtime” on its September 29 episode to defend her daughter.

According to an article written by Chuck Smith for Philippine Star, Yap said although she’s happy that her daughter is given a chance to find love through It’s Showtime’s “Nasaan Ka Mr. Pastilla”segment, she felt hurt over the negative comments hurled against her daughter on social media.

She asked Pastillas Girl’s bashers to get to know her daughter first before judging her.

She said: “Sana, nakikiusap ako, kilalanin muna nila ako. ‘Wag muna nila i-judge ‘yung anak ko. Hindi naman nila kilala ‘yung anak ko. Pinalaki ko nang maayos ang anak ko. Ayoko naman na kung sinu-sinong tao lang ang lalait sa anak ko, maninira sa anak ko.” [I’m asking them to get to know my daughter first before judging her. I brought her up well and I don’t want anyone to just smear her name.]

https://youtu.be/HME8S2c4ZXY