Why firecrackers are horrible for dogs

For millions of dogs, Diwali is not a festival of light. It is a night of noise and terror, a prolonged panic attack that no amount of comforting words can soothe. What we call tradition, they experience as trauma. And the reason lies not in weakness or over-sensitivity, but in the very biology that humans helped shape — a physiology honed over millennia for survival, now caught in a storm it cannot understand.