Most people use plastic shopping sacks "Walmart sacks". Most people like helium party balloons. Many people think it's fun to let them loose to fly away. Lots of school children have set them loose to get someone to write to them from a far away place. Many people forget to take balloons off corner posts to show people the way to a party. These are all bad ideas.
I see balloons and sacks caught on barbed wire fences or just snagged on tall weeds out in a field. I run and grab them and put them in the trash as soon as I see them. They can kill cattle.
Cattle are nibblers. A necropsy can show digestive tracts clogged with balloons or plastic shopping sacks. That can be a miserable way for an animal to die.
