How can you help pets when there are fireworks, thunder or gun fire? Bev Greco, executive director, South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter View Comments There must have been some pretty awesome fireworks going off in our area this Independence Day because the shelter got a big influx of stray dogs in over the weekend. Most were reclaimed the next day by their owners, but I shudder to think of what could have happened to them had they not been safely impounded. The sound and vibrations from fireworks, thunder and gun fire are very frightening to many animals and can send them into a panic.