BAN FIREWORKS, THE STRESS THEY CAUSE ANIMALS IS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY.

in #life5 years ago

I can't wait until today is over with and the fireworks stop. It's going to be a few more days yet as there's always someone letting a few off.

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Mika has really suffered today, at one point i thought she was going to have a heart attack, she was panting really heavy, barking and running not knowing where too put herself. Hubby had to cuddle her tight then talk to her until she settled down. Geordie and Luna where OK until the bangs got extra loud, Luna started to panic, running and barking with Mika, she got so scared she wet herself. I had to wrap her in a blanket covering her ears then talk to her, she was in a terrible state.

There's is a petition going around here in the UK, they need 100.000 names before the government will look at it, at the minute the total so far is 138.682 a b going up all the time.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/231147

I worry about the animals that are outside, the ones who haven't got someone cuddling them. I the news today a horse ran itself to death with the fireworks. That poor animal must have been so scared.

https://www-bristolpost-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/horse-runs-until-dies-after-2180953.amp?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bristolpost.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-world-news%2Fhorse-runs-until-dies-after-2180953

PLEASE THINK BEFORE SETTING FIREWORKS OFF, THINK OFF THE ANIMALS THAT ARE SUFFERING. FIREWORKS REALLY AREN'T THE STRESS THEY CAUSE. ITS HEARTBREAKING WATCHING AN ANIMAL SUFFER WHEN THERE REALLY IS NO NEED


Thank you son-of-satireson-of-satire.

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A properly organised site, in a park, a barge on a river/sea, at new year, would be OK.
They tend to be more of the high altitude, visual spectacles, that the average Joe Blogs can't get, much less afford.
The number of "at home" fireworks here has decreased since there has been organised shows here.
Leave Guy Faux to you British, why should the rest of the world celebrate a failure?

We also question that. If he had succeeded them that's different. Maybe someone should try again.

We have access to a lot of brains on steemit.
It would be hard hiding the evidence though.
How close to Big Ben are you?

A long way from Big Ben :)

It might be hard for you to become the new Guy Faux then.

Shit don't burn hun lol

Completely agree. Resteemed and signed (one of our dogs has been wetting and is now under a table :-( The other is not fazed. The cat has been in thankfully, but it is a worry!

Thank you. Its horrible watching then suffer, about time fireworks were banned.

Many people do not know all the harm they do to our little furry friends with the firesworks

The sad thing is alot of people don't care :(

Is so sad. And the dogs are so important❤

Animals in my country wont move an inch, they've adapted to many crazy stuffs even some weapons.

Don't get me started on guns. This world needs to have a time out.

Maybe, I'm not a fan of guns either. But we shouldn't eliminates somethings, especially if they are done seasonally.

They can make fireworks that don't make a noise then everyone is happy

Sure, you're right. I would award it as the most intriguing invention of the century!

Yes Fireworks is very detrimental to animals, they frighten them because of their very sensitive hearing @karenb54
They must be banned because they are dangerous.

I am hoping the government do something but not holding my breath as they don't care :(

there are many parents out there today who struggle with drinking problems, it can cause A LOT OF STRESS for their children and families, I know personally just how bad it can be..., not to think of the many thousands of societal problems it causes with broken families, violence, and a myriad of other bad decisions being made... maybe we should ban drinking? what do you think?

after all, if you want to ban things that cause people stress... alcohol and drinking problems cause people LOTS OF STRESS 👍? traffic also causes a LOT of stress.. lets ban cars shall we? ...where should we draw the line?

The difference between those is that they don't have to be harmful. Those are also choices we make to put ourselves in that danger. Animals don't often have the choice to just run away or avoid things like fireworks, I have had a rabbit die from a heart attack due to fireworks from the neighbors, she had no choice in that. A man that drinks and becomes an alcoholic made that choice.

alcohol is harmful by nature 👍People have a choice and you don't need to have a dog, do you? You choose to, and because you do you want to limit the freedom of others so that dog can be comfortable is what you are proposing.

Have you ever had a cat before? Cats really don't like vacuums. Should we ban vacuums so that they can be more comfortable and not get stressed out ?? Not all dogs are also going to equally react to the fireworks, I think it's just nonsense to call for banning things which is another way of saying limit people's freedoms, how do you think that is going to go? sooner or later you'll end up with big government problems like we have today...wonder how we got there :)

If you want to BAN THINGS to make for a more peaceful environment for dogs, then the same argument can absolutely be made for banning a variety of things, including drinking, music, perfume?, lets just ban anything and everything because there's probably someone somewhere that's going to get offended and stressed out by it.

fireworks have been used for centuries.... I think the dogs will survive smdh.

I don't choose to have a dog, I choose to rescue wild animals injured by human intervention such as being caught in fences due to fear from the sound of fireworks.

I also at no point have said we should ban them, that was the original poster. I believe people should be educated and do it responsibly, most fireworks are set off in densely populated areas resulting in unnecessary stress and harm as opposed to say in a field miles and miles away.
Harm minimization is done with things like cars and alcohol, eg they enforce seatbelt laws and drink driving quite strictly, so I dont see why it cant be implemented in the case of fireworks.

In the issue of limiting freedoms we already do that in a myriad of ways, being allowed to use fireworks is probably one of the least important freedoms I can think of, especially when half the time you can't even speak freely.

looks like what you like to do is play semantics

i dont agree that people should have violence infringed upon them when they haven't done anything wrong, if roads were privatized then seat belt laws and drinking rules might look quite different.. rather than people being randomly cherry-picked and having their natural rights infringed upon when they haven't done anything wrong in the way of violating private property yet.. So i'm not going to champion such rules that are a result of coercion and force rather than voluntary contract and agreement, I don't think we should steer guidelines over fireworks in that direction, no. Just because we already limit freedoms DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT, and I am not a fan of such tyranny...hence the name doitvoluntarily

What are "natural rights"?

They might look quite different but then again they wouldn't affect anyone outside of the property, fireworks do. regardless of the animals why should I have to hear you making loud bangs outside my house all night, and if it is so your choice to do so then should it be my right to make you stop, by force if necessary?

natural rights are inherent and don't require the permission of anyone else, they are an extension of our being. The freedom to speak, to move etc, though we see that they can be infringed upon that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have the freedom to do such things. Where our rights stop is where the property of another person begins, once you violate the property of someone else you aren't exercising any rights. Ex, Does everyone in the world need to agree to my right to free speech before I can attempt to speak freely? I don't require their permission, though they can attempt to infringe upon those rights as we've seen.

the free market doesn't offer a blueprint for how it would deal with every single problem that might arise in life. But i suspect that freedom could find a solution a lot quicker rather than leaving it up to some central group with a monopoly on coercion. If some private community for example wanted to all agree on banning fireworks then who cares..

We are thinking about our dogs and own concerns but what about those in the firework industry? what about those jobs? all of the people who sell them during the holidays and rely on the money that they make from it? what about those investments that people have made? what about all of the children and families who enjoy celebrating special occasions with fireworks, we are to deny them that standard of living, that enjoyment, fireworks are really to become a thing of the past, just because the dogs get upset?....that's the future we want to advocate for? I certainly don't. After all, it would need to be an all-out-ban to satisfy the dogs wouldn't it? You couldn't just say set them off during certain hours or at certain locations, because surely enough you wouldn't find any location that didn't have at least one dog nearby. It's not that I cannot recognize or care about the struggle that the dogs are going through, our family has a dog and he hates it and endures plenty of stress when fireworks go off..and yet I still don't want to get the government involved... plenty of voluntary solutions have been considered for this problem: comfort vests and wraps for dogs, owners giving them melatonin, or distracting them with tasty food, some blogs even suggest ignoring them altogether so that you don't reinforce their anxiety, the answer doesn't have to be more government. Because what you are essentially saying is someone should be killed over fireworks, because that is the ultimate consequence of what could happen if they violate and continually resist the enforcement of a firework ban.✌

But there's an option with fireworks they could make them without the bang which would solve a big problem

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