My Lovely Horse REscue – Dangers this time of the year

Good, good morning.

Thank you for having me.

It's always a pleasure, Martina, to chat to you.

Oh.

Uh, it's a tough time of the year for pet owners.

A lot of them stressed and worried themselves about the stress and threat that will be caused to their animals, particularly with the fireworks and bonfires in the coming weekend.

Yeah, and sadly, in a lot of places, it started, uh, the start of September type of thing or end of August.

Um, it, it seems to be starting earlier every year, which is just horrible.

Um, I was in Dublin, in Rialto, in Dublin about three weeks ago, and it was 5:00, and I had, uh, one of my dogs with me, and, um, it was like a war zone.

At 5:00 on a Friday evening it was insane, and my poor dog was in bits.

Yeah.

Um, I had to literally put her in the car and just drive her away, but that's how, h- how awful it is for animals, how early it's starting now.

So they, they don't even just have one night of it.

They now have a couple of months of it.

It's rotten.

Yeah, and, you know, people possibly that don't have pets don't realize just how stressful it is to the pets and therefore to their owners 'cause it really does affect them.

Yeah, I mean, look at it.

You know, the way we were only talking about it the other day, it's, it's, it's just a horrible time because, I mean, you know yourself.

I hear it, like, a few bangs, and, and I get quite scared.

I go, "Oh my God, it's like a war out there." So can you imagine? Like, this is the way we're looking at it, that it's okay...

Like, it's not okay, but it's the animals that we're protecting, that we go, "Oh my God," and we, we turn the TV up really high.

We put a scarf around their, their ears really tight.

That's what I do.

But then there's the animals that are tied up, horses that are tied up on greens.

Mm-hmm.