A heartbroken budgie owner is calling for a noisy firework ban after her pet bird dropped dead on her shoulder – just seconds after a loud bang.
Pamela Dungey, 53, from Vale of Glamorgan, had a two-year-old budgie called Mr Tom, who was lovingly perched on her shoulder when an ‘almighty bang’ went off outside her home.
She could not save ‘budgie’
The little bird had been pecking his owner’s cheek – but suddenly fell from Pamela’s shoulder in shock at the seaside property.
Pamela tried to carry out CPR on her beloved budgie, but he could not be saved.
She said: ‘One minute he was having a fuss on my shoulder, and he was pecking my cheek and next this almighty bang exploded outside, and he just fell. I caught him in my hand. I was in total shock. I tried to do CPR, but he’d gone.
Her protest
‘There was no warning. I just held him and cried. And then got really angry and I’m still angry. I’m distraught.
‘It is senseless that an animal’s life has been cut so short for someone to have had two minutes of fun.’
Pamela, who lives next to The Knap beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, saidthe location means fireworks are repeatedly set off near to her home.
She said: ‘Saturday was like a bomb had gone off. They let it off at the beach and it was so big. It exploded right outside my house.
‘People need to know what can happen to our animals when you set off these fireworks, which seem to get louder every year.
‘I’m not against fireworks in their entirety, but what I am against is individual people buying fireworks and setting them off themselves with no care for others.
‘They should either be quiet fireworks, or they should be confined to community displays and events which are properly run with care of animals in mind.’
