Fireworks cause enormous harm to animals, both wild and domestic. They also damage the environment, aggravate asthma, and trigger PTSD. Join us this New Year’s Eve as we boycott fireworks by:
Refusing to purchase and shoot off fireworks
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WHY? For all their glamor, fireworks terrify countless animals, both wild and domestic, each 4th of July in the US. Millions of animals spend hours scrambling in terror as massive booms reverberate around them, and many die from sudden cardiac arrest as a result of dangerously high heart rates and sheer fright.
Untold thousands of animals die as a result of fireworks, including dogs, who are known to suffer enormously. Their hypersensitive hearing often makes the sound of firework blasts overwhelming, and many panic, desperately trying to find somewhere to hide from the thunderous booms of nearby fireworks. It is estimated that 1 in 2 dogs suffer serious adverse reactions when exposed to the deafening sound of firework blasts. In fact, dogs have been known to rip off their paw pads by frantically trying to escape the anxiety-inducing blasts of nearby fireworks; others die from heart attacks and stress, in rare cases even impaling themselves on fences from which they cannot escape.
Fireworks also disturb wildlife, causing many mother birds to flee from their nests to escape the unbearable cacophony of firework blasts; many of these mother birds fly away so hectically and become so disoriented from firework blasts that they cannot relocate their nests, leaving their babies to die of exposure. Rodents often spend hours running around in absolute terror, even hours after the firework blasts have stopped, and countless other animals suffer as well.