>>>With just its teeth and front claws, it ripped a hole in the cedar siding, through the exterior plywood sheathing, through the insulation and most of the way through the interior drywall by the time she got back home.
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>LOL. Our dogs ain't afraid of a bit of noise and get excited at the thought of hunting when they hear fireworks.

Then they would have been scared silly during my fireworks years.

My in-laws have had big German shepherds. Big and noisy and unbelievably cowardly.