Fireworks. The news says that more pets are lost on the 4th of July than on any other day.

Until fairly recently I wasn't aware of how disruptive and damaging fireworks are to wild life, livestock and pets. I knew that it frightened some pets but didn't grok the larger implications like their panicking and busting out of fences, enclosures and even doors as folks come/go and then getting lost and/or hit; or wildlife abandoning nests and young. The ways in which we humans are managing to destroy our natural world are myriad and far more than I ever imagined.