Topic: Don't leave your dog alone in a car.

[GRACELAND]

Don't leave your dog alone in a car.


If it’s very warm outside and you’re going out in the car, think very carefully about what you are going to do with your dog. You should never leave a dog alone in a car.

It can get unbearably hot in a car on a sunny day, even when it’s not that warm. In fact, when it’s 22°C/72°F outside, the temperature inside a car can soar to 47°C/117°F within 60 minutes.

Unlike humans, dogs pant to help keep themselves cool. In a hot stuffy car, dogs can’t cool down – leaving a window open or a sunshield on your windscreen won’t keep your car cool enough. Dogs die in hot cars.

Under the Animal Welfare Act you now have a legal duty to care for your animal and if you put your animal at risk, you could face prosecution. You would also have to live with the fact that your thoughtless action resulted in terrible suffering for your pet.

[Ragdoll Lady]

Well said Graceland. Still you see dogs left in cars especially in supermarket car parks. You only need be delayed in the store for the unthinkable to happen. We have found dogs in distress a few times now in parked cars and gone into the store to put a message out over the tannoy. Normally get some idiot being abusive because we have called their attention to their dog, had a bloke threaten to hit me once! but a bystander called the Police.