Simpler solution…don’t have pets🤖
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That’s a very old box of fireworks Pixie, just an image I found online…a mere indulgence on my part although it brings back memories.
Fireworks are fun, as much as I enjoy them there’s no way I’d be a hoarder 
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You said recently that you used to love making paper chains at Christmas @Chilliboot. You sound like just the sort of chap who’d have mentally stored away a few tips and tricks from watching Blue Peter about about what you can do with coathangers, pipe cleaners, toilet roll centres, tinsel and glitter.
Surely you could emulate real fireworks and post your techniques on you tube? Even at this late and no doubt declining stage of your life 
, there’s still time to become an influencer.
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Spot on about Blue Peter Dex…the coat hanger advent candle thingy with real candles.
I made one, under supervision of course .
Wots an influencer?
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Not where I live.
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America isn’t cowboys and indians y’know. Nobody runs around shooting each other.
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Well, not since the Americans shot the Indians. But we digress.
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I’ve heard some which were probably for the Asian Festival of Light(Diwali)
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To think, at the age of about 6 or 7, l was given a Jumping Jack by the teacher at school, who was clearing the display of fireworks in the classroom and giving the children a firework each.
As my mother worked, on reaching home, l found the matches and lit the firework in the back garden. It chased me around the garden and l was petrified.
Imagine, that happening today? !!
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Scary things, fireworks.
A lad in the year below me at school thought it would be a spiffing idea to light a rocket, placed horizontally on the ground in the playground during break. Off it whooshed, straight into the folds of the gown of the on duty teacher (It was that sort of school). Teacher managed to throw off the gown shortly before it set fire.
Oddly enough, nobody ever saw the lad again.
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That’s unreasonable.
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I used to enjoy fireworks when I was a kid but, on reflection, it was a very short lived joy, the box of them was soon used up and some were a bit disappointing.
Now they are banned I don’t miss them but neither do my kids as they have never had fireworks and are used to going to much grander displays to watch them.
Let’s face it they were only banned because of the horrific injuries suffered by kids with their use.