Animal lover and owner of blind lamb urges Doncaster people to stop setting off fireworks in their gardens
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Darcy is a nine month old lamb who lives on Manor State Farm in Toll Bar.
She was reared as a show animal but was born without eyeballs and a bad heart murmur.
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Hide AdAmi, 20, said: “We’re really worried about Darcy, we’ve already had fireworks going off near the farm and we’re concerned about her health.
“To her it must just sound like an explosion.
“We know that people will set off fireworks close to November 5 but why do they need to be going off so early?
Ami fears that because firework displays have been cancelled due to Covid-19 that more people will be setting them off at home this year.
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Hide AdMost years she will put extra precautions in place to help the farm animals such as installing lights and radios into their barns to help distract them from the noise that fireworks make.
But as Darcy is blind Ami is not sure how to comfort her.
“I considered bringing a heater and sleeping in the barn with the animals,” Ami said.
“We can’t even sedate Darcy because it’s too risky with her heart condition, she might not wake up.”
Ami has been using social media to express her views on how fireworks can be harmful to pets and animals.
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Hide AdShe said: “I really passionately believe that fireworks should be banned to the general public.
Ami also wishes for them to be banned for their adverse effect on wildlife.
She has already found discarded fireworks on the farm this year and a celebration balloon in the hay of the animals.
A petition on the banning of fireworks will be put in front of the UK Government on November 2.
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Hide Ad“I don’t think the petition will be successful honestly,” she said.
“Every year the government finds a rubbish excuse to not ban them.”