In one week, it will be the Swiss National Day. It takes place every year on August 1st. This remembrance is accompanied with outdoor brunches, with firecrackers firings, with Chinese lanterns processions and with fireworks. We also light a big fire.

We have a hearing clearly more developed than the humans (they are really handicaped, poor people ! Good thing they have thumbs to be superior to us in at least one domain) : not only the backfiring frighten us, but they can even ache for our sensitive ears; sparks can burn us seriously, and the waste of pyrotechnic machines can make us sick if we taste it.

Our friends hedgehogs pay so often one heavy price to this party by burning to death in stakes raised far too early. In the ideal, stakes for the fires of August 1st should be raised only that very day, and the wooden heap should be reorganized before being fired so that the wildlife which nests there can run away somewhere else.

Friends cats of Switzerland, we thus recommend you not to go outside this day. Stay in peace, in a quiet place (under the bed or quite different hiding place, it’s perfect). Ask your domesticated to close windows to damp still the noise, and to turn on the television or the radio to have a familiar and soothing background noise. Make sure of having water and food in plenty, some toys at arrangement to distract you, and wait the most comfortably possible which that spends. Your bean will maybe desire to stay in the peace with you : if it is the case, take advantage to spend a cuddles-evening !