News, New Tenn. law allows good Samaritans to save dogs from hot cars. (shepherd, aggressive)
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I carry post-it notes and tape with me in the car. If in a parking lot I see a dog in a car with the windows up on a warm/hot day, I put a note on the windshield about it. Who knows if it makes any difference. Once, through a slightly opened window, I dropped onto the passenger seat a bottle of water with no note attached, as the poor dog sat alone panting in the back seat. I'd like to think the owner "got the message," but probably not. I may get more aggressive and report them to police.
I was traveling with my long coat Shepherd last weekend. When I needed to stop I left the car running and the AC on. She is very protective and nobody would try to steal the car with her inside. But I did feel the need to put a note on the windshield explaining that the car was running, the AC was on, and the dog is aggressive. It worked but I didn't let the car out of my sight for very long, it still made me nervous.
The trouble with allowing people to rescue dogs in hot cars is that some people don't have a drop of sense.
My hot dog in car story: I'd left my dogs in the car long enough to run in and buy myself a soda. I came out to find a woman who was really ripping into me about how my dogs were going to die because I'd left them in the car for 10 minutes. She was really emotional about it and furious with me.
The problem with this scene is that it was 46 degrees outside and the Good Samaritan was wearing a jacket, a sweat shirt and a sweater, plus snow boots, a scarf around her neck, and a wooly hat.
I'd sure hate for her to have the power to break my window to rescue my poor dying dogs.
She's not the only wackadoodle out there who is completely lacking in any common sense. I've had humaniacs leave those "your dog is dying because you left it in the car" notes on my windshield in the middle of the night when there was snow on the ground. It's really not such a good idea to allow them to break into cars.
The trouble with allowing people to rescue dogs in hot cars is that some people don't have a drop of sense.
My hot dog in car story: I'd left my dogs in the car long enough to run in and buy myself a soda. I came out to find a woman who was really ripping into me about how my dogs were going to die because I'd left them in the car for 10 minutes. She was really emotional about it and furious with me.
The problem with this scene is that it was 46 degrees outside and the Good Samaritan was wearing a jacket, a sweat shirt and a sweater, plus snow boots, a scarf around her neck, and a wooly hat.
I'd sure hate for her to have the power to break my window to rescue my poor dying dogs.
She's not the only wackadoodle out there who is completely lacking in any common sense. I've had humaniacs leave those "your dog is dying because you left it in the car" notes on my windshield in the middle of the night when there was snow on the ground. It's really not such a good idea to allow them to break into cars.
That is the problem- a lot of people just go crazy at the sight of dogs in the car with no owner. They freak out without assessing the situation. Around here you can not smash out a car window to get pets out of the car. You call the police or animal control to do it. If you smash out a window not only will the pet owner get in trouble you will too. I agree with that.
The trouble with allowing people to rescue dogs in hot cars is that some people don't have a drop of sense.
My hot dog in car story: I'd left my dogs in the car long enough to run in and buy myself a soda. I came out to find a woman who was really ripping into me about how my dogs were going to die because I'd left them in the car for 10 minutes. She was really emotional about it and furious with me.
The problem with this scene is that it was 46 degrees outside and the Good Samaritan was wearing a jacket, a sweat shirt and a sweater, plus snow boots, a scarf around her neck, and a wooly hat.
I'd sure hate for her to have the power to break my window to rescue my poor dying dogs.
She's not the only wackadoodle out there who is completely lacking in any common sense. I've had humaniacs leave those "your dog is dying because you left it in the car" notes on my windshield in the middle of the night when there was snow on the ground. It's really not such a good idea to allow them to break into cars.
Yeah, I'd have some serious words for anyone breaking into my car parked in the summer shade with the windows open several inches, back door open 24 inches but locked with a vent taligate lock and the fans blowing on my dogs in their locked crates while they calmly chew their bully sticks.
Wow it never occurred to me that people would be so stupid that they were concerned on a 46 degree day.
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