Dog Dies After Spending 3 Hours In Hot Animal Control Truck (legal, training)

[misfitz]

So sad.

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MEMPHIS, TN-- A dog died after spending more than three hours in a hot animal control truck, without air conditioning or water.

The dog’s owner, Cheryl Booth blames the Shelby County Animal Control worker that picked up her pet, Bailey. “He needs to lose his job,” said Booth, “He has no reason to be working with animals. “

Bailey was picked up by the animal control officer near Booth’s home. The dog was put into a county van and remained there while the employee made three other calls before finally arriving at the Memphis Animal Shelter. After the nearly three hour journey, it’s believed, Bailey died of heat stroke just minutes after being taken out of the truck. “Why didn’t he get any water? It was 100 degrees outside”, said Booth...

[lifelongMOgal]

Very sad. Dog shouldn't have been out to begin with but this tragedy with animal control appears to have been avoidable.

[LongIslandEddie]

If a person locked a child in the car while spending a half hour at the mall, shopping in the freedom of air conditioning, without a screaming and unruly kid,
wanting everything that they see, chances are that they just might lose the child to the authorities and have a labyrinth of legal proceedings to deal with.
To many, their pets are extensions of their families, as validly important, loved and revered as one would love a child. my feelings toward an equally vulnerable
pet are much the same as they are with a child and negligence by any other deduction is still negligence, no matter how you boil it down. the big difference herein
is that the dog warden, although sworn to uphold the rights of animals rather than humans, saw fit to consider the dog as below or unworthy of the same consideration
that one would give to a vulnerable human in the same position.

By the evident virtue of his actions, this "so called" friend of man's best friend, should be held to a similar accounting, the proposition being that the reverence for life
should be as equilaterally applied to a defenseless dog as it would be to a child. Negligence by any other name is still negligence and accountability by any other name is
still and always will be, accountability. I never wanted to be a street sweeper or a dog catcher but after 17 months without a job, I'd sure be more than willing to try.

[Fontucky]

Trucks used by Shelby County Animal Control do not have air conditioning.

Morons.

[dreamhunter65]

People who are out there to protect and then this neglect. This whole lot of em need to be looked at. Bet all other city vehicles have air conditioning and water should be supplied as soon as animal is loaded. Hope heavy fines come down on this and job loss!

[brightdoglover]

Sad, very sad. Absurd that a vehicle in a hot climate wouldn't have some a/c for creatures and people.
Unfortunately, dehydration/water isn't the only reason people or animals die in hot vehicles. Their core temperature rises too high, and it isn't a pretty death. Hydration is only one part of heat deaths. The temperature in a hot vehicle can rise to deadly levels in a few minutes, and dehydration isn't the issue.
Although, it does seem like common sense to offer water immediately to a rescued animal (or person).

[taigagirl]

What an incredibly sad story. Neglect by a rescue facility. Why in the world would anyone who works for a pound/rescue facility/whatever be driving around with animals for 3 hours with no air conditioning.and no water I really hope there is an investigation into this organization's training standards and policies and procedures.