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Dogs in cars - Why do people STILL do this?

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WildFlowerBees · 11/08/2022 14:41

Again today the police broke into a car to rescue a dog who'd been left in the car no windows open.

Are people really so stupid that they are unaware of how dangerous not to mention bloody cruel this is?

Year upon year there's social media and news information on this very topic yet every year some cruel twat locks their dog in a car.

Some people really don't deserve to have an animal.

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Creepymanonagoatfarm · 11/08/2022 20:01

Americas are wanting a sensor fitted to cars to text if anyone gets left in! Just look after ya friggin dc!!

mac1974 · 11/08/2022 20:02

@Changechangychange that's absolutely awful. It's hard to comprehend that an employer would allow that to happen. It's hard to imagine what pressure the parent must be under to have made that choice. It makes me feel sick. That could have gone so very wrong.

theremustonlybeone · 11/08/2022 20:03

Shocking never mind the walking the dogs in the shearing heat too. Burning they’re paws until they bleed and owners not realising that the pavements are burning them - muppets

REP22 · 11/08/2022 20:10

@Changechangychange. I agree. I love that site but the debate in that one really riled me too. I made the mistake of reading the article linked-to in the commentary about parents whose kids had died after they'd left them in their cars. That's some grim knowledge that I can't unlearn. And the fact that other (presumably intelligent people) had also read or knew of that piece and STILL argued that it was OK to leave a baby in a car for hours ("the engine was left running, so the air-conditioning was on!")... Ye gods.

@WildFlowerBees is absolutely right. It's so cruel and stupid that it defies belief. And yet every year it happens.

We once had a dog at the vets who had been at the beach with his family all day. He was very, very ill and it was a bit of a mystery as the chap and his wife said "oh, he's been drinking OK". Except that they hadn't had any fresh water at all for the dog, they'd not even brought or sourced any tap water in a little bowl for the dog. The only water the dog had access to was sea water, and that's what he'd been drinking. All day. It was (I think) the worst case of salt-poisoning the duty vet had seen. And the bloke didn't think he'd done anything wrong - "but he's been drinking ok, all day!" Yes, you irredeemable c*ckwomble, and it's almost killed him. But I wasn't allowed to say things like that to clients' faces. Unfortunately.

gatehouseoffleet · 11/08/2022 20:12

I am surprised how many dogs I've seen being walked today as well. Not at lunchtime (!) but this morning when it was already quite warm and this evening around 6.30 when it was still hot.

Sorry but if you have a dog you have to get up early and be out and back before 7am in this sort of weather, or wait until about now to take them out.

gatehouseoffleet · 11/08/2022 20:14

The only water the dog had access to was sea water I really just give up.

Between leaving them in cars, walking them when it's hot, getting them to drink salt water...

...and then the other thread about fireworks in this heat and it being ok to pollute the atmosphere to keep the aircon in the car on, I just give up. Humans are completely beyond redemption. Why has nobody got any common sense anymore?

momager1 · 11/08/2022 20:18
Changechangychange · 11/08/2022 20:23

@REP22 that saltwater story is terrible - that poor poor dog.

x2boys · 11/08/2022 20:29

I mean I'm not the worlds best dog owner but I really feel for my dog right now,I keep putting ice cubes in her water bowl to keep it cool .

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WildFlowerBees · 11/08/2022 20:33

No sane person would walk on the pavement in bare feet in 30 plus degree heat, or go to the beach and fill up their water bottle with saltwater, sit in a hot car with the windows closed and a jumper on for 30 plus minutes so why can't they extend this sort of common sense to their pet? I look at our local rescue which is now full of 2 yr old dogs from lockdown and feel utter contempt for people and their selfishness.

We humans are such parasites.

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Florenz · 11/08/2022 20:36

Anyone who does this should be banned for life from keeping dogs in their household, with a cast iron guarantee 5 year jail sentence if they are found with a dog in their house. No excuses, no nothing. A dog is in your house and you go to jail for 5 years. The law is a joke in this country.

x2boys · 11/08/2022 20:42

REP22 · 11/08/2022 20:10

@Changechangychange. I agree. I love that site but the debate in that one really riled me too. I made the mistake of reading the article linked-to in the commentary about parents whose kids had died after they'd left them in their cars. That's some grim knowledge that I can't unlearn. And the fact that other (presumably intelligent people) had also read or knew of that piece and STILL argued that it was OK to leave a baby in a car for hours ("the engine was left running, so the air-conditioning was on!")... Ye gods.

@WildFlowerBees is absolutely right. It's so cruel and stupid that it defies belief. And yet every year it happens.

We once had a dog at the vets who had been at the beach with his family all day. He was very, very ill and it was a bit of a mystery as the chap and his wife said "oh, he's been drinking OK". Except that they hadn't had any fresh water at all for the dog, they'd not even brought or sourced any tap water in a little bowl for the dog. The only water the dog had access to was sea water, and that's what he'd been drinking. All day. It was (I think) the worst case of salt-poisoning the duty vet had seen. And the bloke didn't think he'd done anything wrong - "but he's been drinking ok, all day!" Yes, you irredeemable c*ckwomble, and it's almost killed him. But I wasn't allowed to say things like that to clients' faces. Unfortunately.

Ffs who thinks it's OK to feed a dog salt water even if I forget to bring the dog bowl and water if we go to the beach I buy her a bottle of water.

user1745 · 11/08/2022 20:51

Everyone thinks their situation is the exception. "That rule's just for other, more stupid, people, but we're only going to be gone 20 minutes so it's fine"

Fluffymule · 11/08/2022 20:54

It has to be stupidity.

I've noticed that when these stupid pet owners return to the scene of their negligence to be confronted with concerned people, or police/firefighters who have smashed a window to rescue the poor animal, they are belligerent in their outrage and refuse to accept they've done anything wrong.

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