Dogs in cars again

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Seriously when will people learn?! On our local FB group today, another dog had to rescued from a car because the owner had gone to the hairdressers. Why oh why would you take a dog out in the car in hot weather unless you really need to but to leave it in a car when you go to the hairdressers/shopping etc.? Beggars beliefs

When the fuck will people learn?

This makes me so angry.

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Because people are pig headed and stupid!!
Yanbu.
I urge every person who sees a dog locked in a car to take action,call police,if in in a shop car park ask staff to tannoy owner of vehicle.
Don't walk away telling yourself the dog will be fine.
Dogs are also being stolen from vehicles.

I went to some woods a while back. On the way out, I’d walked past a group of women in a clearing, exercising a dog, far in enough so you weren’t near the car park and definitely couldn’t see it.
It later transpired they were the owners of a poor, tiny Viszla puppy that had been left, in a cage, on the front seat of their van, in the car park, next to us. I reported them to the Police, not just for the potential of the puppy to overheat and die, but it also being stolen. Disgusting behaviour by idiots who shouldn’t have dogs.

A brick has broken off my front wall due to children walking on it on the way to and from school. There are also cars parked outside at drop off/pickup times.

Whilst there is of course a risk that the brick will be used to put my window through, rather than simply weighting down the recycling lid, if somebody uses it to put through a car window due to there being a dog left in it, as there was this morning, according to DP, I'm certainly not going to object. Or provide CCTV footage of any rescuer.

Anyone that leaves their dog in a hot car should then be put in said car. Left to die and and then fed to lions/tigers. That's what they deserve.

@HelloViroids
Does that mean the car needs to be kept running to provide the air conditioning for the dog? Even if it's electric that sounds an excessive use of energy when you could leave the dog home in the cool.
And take the dog for a walk in the cool before you leave home.

@crosstalk unfortunately not all dogs can be left at home in the cool. My dog has to have 24 hour care so spends a lot of time on the road with me even in hot weather. Obviously I never leave her in the car alone especially in hot weather as that is just plain cruel and people should be prosecuted for it.

[quote Chloemol]@JediGnot
This is a thread about dogs not children

For lots of people dogs are their children. For lots of reasons and my girl refers to a female dog, so dont be so nasty[/quote]
I just find it slightly ironic that on a website where women rightly and repeatedly complain about MEN identifying as women, you would choose to identify a DOG as a female human child.

I don't have dogs but do have three cats and I often refer to the two female ones as 'the girls' or the male one as 'my boy'.

I don't think that's strange in the least. It was perfectly clear that the poster downthread was referring to her dog, since it's a thread about dogs in cars.

And just to stir it up again.

I was working today, had the dog in the car. 27 degrees!!!

Parked him under a tree, in deep sahhade, cracked open the front windows, tail vent lock and a wet towel, bowl of water and a carrot. Left him there for an hour (checked on him and moved the car further under the tree twice).

By the time I had finished the car was considerably colder than outside. By the time we got back home the car was still considerably colder than the house.

He was definitely happier in the car, with or without me, than he is at the moment. I may go out for a drive just to cool him off again!

It's not as cut and dried as dogs in cars = owners need shooting!