Friday December 23, 2022 | 10:15 a.m.
For many years now, party culture has become a time of much euphoria and excitement. People celebrate in a big way, and generally when the end of the year, Christmas and New Year holidays arrive, the fireworks sales shops explode due to their high demand. However, over the years, the awareness of the festive dates has ceased to be the same as it was before, and the danger of a possible incident in animals, which are the most affected, is put in the first place. for a couple of minutes of explosion.
Although visually appealing, fireworks emit noises that have highly detrimental effects on most animals. The consequences generated by fireworks vary, but in general they can cause pain in the ears, known as “acoustic stress”, tachycardia, tremors, nausea, lightheadedness, heart problems and fear.
To mention some of the most common cases, dogs can become frightened and try to escape because they do not understand where the noise is coming from, they get desperate and seek refuge, birds react with agitated palpitations and cats tend to run after explosives out of curiosity, being able to swallow them or injure yourself.
In addition to Petfriendly, make it Ecofriendly
Simultaneously, fireworks can release aluminum and particles that are harmful to the soil, air, and water. Their colors are due to a wide variety of toxic chemicals that generate polluting residues.
Strictly speaking, more and more people are joining campaigns such as “More lights, less noise” or “Zero Fireworks” promoted by different organizations in order to protect animals and people who suffer from health problems, for those that also suffer the damages of the traditional rockets.
Pet friendly options
In dialogue with TN they assure that “Manufacturing companies are adapting year after year to the needs and requirements of people in terms of care. For this reason, we support the transition from roaring fireworks to colored fireworks,” Mario Ruschin, president of the Argentine Chamber of Fireworks Companies, told this outlet.
“The variety is increasing, there are light ‘cakes’, flares, candles, little stars, volcanoes and little bees, among others. Many of these products have a seal (a label) that the manufacturers place to identify the pet friendly line,” Ruschin explained.
In Misiones, most businesses have at least two varieties of the following options so that this Christmas, in addition to enjoying with family and friends, we can also take care of animals.
One by one, the low noise level products:
- Special 49 fireworks cake
- Minishow (professional event type)
- 48 shot cake
- Little stars for 50 units
- smoke flares of different colors
- Box of Sparklers for 5 units
- 10 shot candle
