NOT ALL PETITIONS ARE CREATED EQUAL
If you are an animal lover you know how hard fireworks are on dogs and cats, horses and other pets – even people are triggered by the loud noises created by fireworks – and what about farm animals and wild animals and birds?
The number of dogs and cats who break out and are lost, on and around holidays, when fireworks — often illegal ones are set off — is exponentially greater than at other times of the year.
[Scroll down to learn about a horse in Nova Scotia who had to be euthanized after illegal fireworks were set off on December 31st, 2021.]
Member of Parliament sponsored petitions are organized by individuals or groups and then sponsored by an MP. This one is sponsored by Member of Parliament Laurel Collins Victoria, BC. New Democratic Party Caucus…
This petition is a Member of Parliament sponsored petition that has the potential to bring about change.
It will need 500 signatures to be presented in Canadian Parliament and once it does – it has clout – please join us in signing and promoting this petition to get at least that many signatures ASAP.
Oh, and we’re not stopping at 500 because the more signatures it has the more clout it will have.
This is YOUR chance to bring about change.
PLEASE NOTE after signing you will receive an email asking you to confirm your signature – the whole process takes about 1 minute.
P.S. There are many alternatives to fireworks including light shows (scroll down), that don’t contain toxic chemicals and that don’t trigger humans or terrify pets, wild animals and birds or farm animals.
AGAIN PLEASE NOTE: After signing you will receive an email asking you to confirm your signature.
This petition is only open to citizens of Canada but you can find other horse and animal-related petitions here.
DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE TO SIGN A 2ND PETITION?
If so please click here to sign a petition organized by Pam Levy to ban the sale and use of private fireworks in Nova Scotia, Canada. Learn more about this initiative here.
NEW YEAR’S FIREWORKS LEAD TO HEARTACHE FOR NOVA SCOTIA HORSE OWNER
Fireworks also led to a missing dog, injured farm animals and a PTSD episode for a veteran,
Dawn Golding of Canning, N.S., is starting the new year with a broken heart, and an empty stall in her horse barn.
On New Year’s Eve, Golding said neighbours set off fireworks around 6:30 p.m., just before she was about to bring the horses into the barn for supper.
The horses, some boarding there and others owned by Golding’s family, were spooked and broke through fencing into an adjacent pasture. They then went into a field, and other nearby farms.
Golding and her daughter, Lauren, raced along behind the horses. Eventually they came upon their oldest horse, Navar, with a compound fracture.
“I found him on the ground, with his bone through his leg dangling off. It was probably the most horrific sight I’ve seen,” Golding said.
A veterinarian came out and determined Navar’s leg could not be repaired. He was put down, and Golding said she was at least glad he was taken out of his “excruciating agony” as quickly as possible.
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CANADA SLAUGHTERS HORSES FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
It may be hard for some to believe that tens of thousands of horses, including pets, are routinely slaughtered in Canada, for human consumption.
Some of the meat is consumed in Canada and much of it is shipped to the European Union and other markets, including Japan.
The barbaric slaughter of horses is currently not legal in the United States, BUT horses, including pets and ex-racehorses, from the United States are shipped to Canada and to Mexico to be slaughtered.
In addition Canada allows for the transportation of live horses to Japan, to be slaughtered for human consumption, and unfortunately the transportation of horses destined for slaughter within Canada, and by air, is far from humane.
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