Venice doesn't really care. I think if I took her out to watch them with me though she might get a little spooky, based on her reaction to the ice-blasting this winter. We went to watch them blasting the ice and while the booms didn't make her flinch or panic, after the fourth or fifth blast I noticed she was doing a lot of lip-licking and her tail was tucked, so we left. Granted, we were like 100 feet away from dynamite exploding and shooting ice way up into the sky so....