Animal lover and owner of blind lamb urges Doncaster people to stop setting off fireworks in their gardens

The owner of a blind lamb with heart problems is asking people in Doncaster to halt their firework plans because she is afraid her beloved pet will not survive.
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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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Ami with Darcy a nine month old lamb who is blind and has a heart murmur.Ami with Darcy a nine month old lamb who is blind and has a heart murmur.
Ami with Darcy a nine month old lamb who is blind and has a heart murmur.

Ami, 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 is urging people not to set off fire works in their gardens.Ami is urging people not to set off fire works in their gardens.
Ami is urging people not to set off fire works in their gardens.

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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Most 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.

Ami says that she wants fireworks to be banned for sale to the general public.Ami says that she wants fireworks to be banned for sale to the general public.
Ami says that she wants fireworks to be banned for sale to the general public.

“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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She 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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“I don’t think the petition will be successful honestly,” she said.

“Every year the government finds a rubbish excuse to not ban them.”

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