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Shopper left dog in car

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DevilishDiva · 03/06/2022 19:21

I was in my local supermarket earlier and whilst I was walking back to my car, a woman and her daughter got out of their car which was parked next to me and I noticed they left their dog in the car with no windows down. It's a lovely day here - it was reading 18 degrees on my phone but it felt much warmer than that. This car was parked in the direct sunlight.

Anyway, I went back into the shop and reported it to security who said they would put a call out for the owner of the car. They never responded to the call out and they came back to their car 20 minutes later and drove off without checking the dog and the windows were still up!

Anyway, it's just not sitting right with me. I know this probably happens all the time but I'm honestly so angry at this woman.

I took a picture of the car with the dog in view and a picture of when they came back to the car so I had the time stamp.

Would I be unreasonable to report it to the local animal welfare? Part of me thinks there's nothing else that needs to be done but at the same time, it's really annoyed me and I want that woman to think twice before she does that again!

OP posts:
AlwaysLatte · 05/06/2022 00:32

I’d be incandescent with rage if someone broke into my car to ‘rescue’ my dog if I’d left him in there for 20 minutes.
So would your dog:

Definition of incandescent (Entry 1 of 2)
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: white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat

Random789 · 05/06/2022 00:50

Quite possibly the owners were being extremely mindful of the possibility of the car getting hot and had good reason to know that it would be ok. Perhaps one of them had just spent 20 mins in a different shop while the other waited in the car, and they discovered that the day wasn't warm enough to create problems.

Did the dog show any signs of being distressed?

If the car WAS too hot and the dog was distressed I would want to pummel the owners aand yell at them. But equally I do feel a bit annoyed by the knowledge that there are people out there who think it is ALWAYS wrong to leave a dog in a car and who are ready to rush in with complaints in cases where welfare has not been compromised.

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