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sywell

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Why can people have commercial firework displays with the largest fireworks within 100 meters of horse paddocks and send the horses into a mad panic causing distress and Local authorities will do nothing about it before the event. They just say keeps records of any damage done and we will investigate. If I was seen loading a difficult horse at a show and used a whip to get it in I could be prosecuted. Why do we let Goverment pass legislation after much consultation and then do nothing to enforce it ,why did they bother in the first place. The Horse Passport Order 2009 is a classic example.
 
Now this is were the new Goverment enquiry lists come in. They are asking about new changes in the law and to put forward ideas and banning fireworks is a good idea.I'm going to find out how to do it, perhaps you can do the same and get your friends to write in as well. We can but try.:):)
 
Tbh, ours aren't horrendously bad with fireworks :confused: but a plastic bag monster in a bush is just a disaster...! But I'm all for getting them banned...if only to stop the "unsavoury people" around from tying them to cats or thinking its funny to put them through people's letterboxes etc...it wouldn't even be as bad if Bonfire Night was just Bonfire NIGHT, rather than Bonfire "two weeks before and a week after, then at New Years Eve, oh and then Christmas too!" (but maybe that's just my grumpy 20 y/o side coming out! :D)
So yeah - ban fireworks!!!
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one. We get them all year round in West Sussex, parties, weddings, bonfire nights, whatever. No-one ever lets anybody know, even my next door neighbours. There are loads of horses, cattle and sheep around here, it is primarily a rural area but a lot of townies have moved in and let them off whatever, whenever, we have them at 11 oclock at night most weekends. Drives me and my animals nuts. I lost a horse 2 years ago as a result of a stupid neighbour letting them off over her yard, despite my pleas for him not to do so, and nobody wanted to know. The council wrote him a letter and that was it. It drives me insane., I really wish there was legislation that you had to get a licence to let them off. They are so dangerous these days, not the piddly things I had as a child, they sound like bombs going off. Ridiculous.
 
But from what I understood you do need permit if big display also insurance even house insurance, so start as the people are they covered and if anything happens take them to court. Again new goverment wants your ideas about the law now is a good time to state:D:D:D:D
 
If someone can tell me how we put these ideas to government, banning fireworks apart from bonfire night only would be my first one. My horse is not too bad, but my dog is so terrified that he tries to claw through walls......and don't tell me to try this and try that, because we have tried every behavioural therapy going.....resorted to Xanax from the vet last year with the vet saying "If they don't work, nothing's going to". We gave him the max dose and it didn't make one iota of difference. So if anyone knows how we make these suggestions to government, please put it on here, so that those who want to, can make their views known.
 
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