Dogs Left In Hot Cars

[Prudie]

Why do people still do this? They can't be ignorant of the consequences surely and one assumes they love their pets. I just don't get it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5887581/Dramatic-moment-police-forced-smash-car-free-two-sweltering-dogs.html

[ummmm]

I know, crazy.

[Mamyalynne]

It's impossible to comprehend the mindset of someone doing that.

[hereIam]

I've read that on Mail Online and I was fuming. How many more times do people need to be told that you just don't do this and take absolutely no notice?! Doesn't everybody know how hot cars can get when parked up on sunny days and yet they still leave dogs (who don't sweat) locked up in them! Thank God the police acted as they did and I hope they prosecute the stupid owners. These dogs could have so easily died.

[Baldric]

/// The RSPCA has indicated that it intends to prosecute the owners ///

I broke a window a few years back, lots of Folks stood around 'tutting' no-one had called the Police, car windows not even on vent. Big Dog looking distressed. while someone rang the Police, at my suggestion, I put a rock from a flower bed through a back window and got dog out, he could not stand unaided for a while. Police turned up and basically said '*** off Mate, we don't know who you are'

[hereIam]

That's awful Baldric, but I am so glad you got the dog out. Hope the ruddy owners learnt a lesson from it.

[Sqad]

Some years ago two police dog handlers left a dog in sweltering heat in a police car.
What chance do dogs stand with mere mortals?

[hereIam]

And the dogs died Sqad, he had done it before and STILL they kept him on. Beggars belief really ...

[naomi24]

Not much makes me really angry .... but this does. Morons!

[kvalidir]

Personally I'd like to stifle the ignorant idiot owners ( good for you Baldric btw) x

[jakep]

Also seen people walking dogs in the middle of the day on hot pavements. They have shorts, t shirts and sandals. Poor dog has a fur coat and bare feet.
Humans are often very ignorant :-(

[woofgang]

I use this as an avatar when it gets hot...anyone who wants to nick it and use it anywhere is welcome.
http://i68.tinypic.com/2bqflf.jpg

[Baldric]

It's old News now, the Dogs may have been trained, who was responsible for training tthe Handler?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8602637/Police-dog-handler-threw-himself-from-car-after-dogs-died-in-hot-vehicle.html

[Prudie]

Heartbreaking and totally inexcusable.

[ladybirder]

The thing is, we all know some thoughtless idiot is going to do it don't we? Every year without fail.
Hottest day of the year as well. Poor dogs are now wondering why they're stuck in kennels. Should be the stick the owner in a car in full sun on a day as hot as today and see how they get on. Oh and Bravo Baldric, I'm not surprised that you did that;-))

[Buenchico]

I am most definitely NOT seeking to defend whoever left those dogs in the car. However I note that the incident occurred in a hospital car park. It might be (for example) that, having put the dogs into the car to take them for exercise, their owner got a call to say that their child had been knocked down and was fighting for life. He/she might then have rushed to the hospital and, in his/her panicked state, failed to make adequate provision for the dogs' welfare.

Equally (in a less dramatic scenario) the dog owner might have nipped into the hospital to do something which he expected would only take a minute or two (such as picking up medication from the hospital's pharmacy or to pick up someone whom he thought was already discharged but, as it turned out, wasn't). He could then have been distracted by, say, the pharmacist saying that there was a note on his file that he should speak to a doctor before collecting his medicine, resulting in him forgeting that he'd left the dogs in his car.

I repeat that I'm NOT defending the dog owner but I do know that the most diligent and caring of people occasionally make mistakes which they themselves find it hard to believe that they could have done. For example, some friends of mine were the most loving and caring parents that it could be possible to imagine, who would never do anything which could place their children in danger. However they got home from shopping in Asda (2 miles from their home) one day and suddenly realised that their infant son wasn't with them; they'd left him, sitting in his pushchair, in the Asda car park! If they could make such crazy errors, I suspect that we ALL can.

[Jackdaw33]

Nothing new there. My mother left me in my pram in 1949 in the Co-op. It was only when she got off the bus at home and a neighbour enquired after her baby that she realised what she had done.

[1ozzy]

It was planned Jack ;-/

[Jackdaw33]

That wouldn't surprise me one little bit, Ozzy.

[hereIam]

Blimey Buenchico you've got a vivid imagination !! I bet it was none of those things .....

My beloved Mum left me outside the shops in my pram too when I was a newborn and got the bus home!

[hereIam]

Two more reported today, one in Cheshire at a shopping centre for an hour!! What the HELL is wrong with people ??? Luckily, both dogs were saved in time.