Did you leave your dog in the car today?
- Thread starter mAlice
- Start date
luvmygdaughters
Well-Known Member
My girl Nikki used to love going for car rides, as does Capt.Morgan. In the summer months the only time she goes for a ride is when we are taking her to the ponds for a walk. I just dont see the reasoning for taking chances with the life of an animal that you profess to love so much. The same goes for the idiots that leave their kids in the car. If you cant take your kids in the store, hair salon, nail salon, doctors office, etc. then either dont go or have someone watch your kids. Malice did the right thing and I wouldnt hesitate to call the police if i saw a kid or a dog in a car on a hot day. It has nothing to do with being a busybody and everything to do with trying to save an innocent child or animal. When I was at McKays in LT last week, some idiot left a puppy in her convertible, the leash was attached to the dogs collar and the dumba$$ has wrapped the leash around the shifter on the console, the puppy tried to climb out of the car and almost hung itself. I didnt see it, but I was at the customer service counter when a woman came in and reported it to the store manager. The manager made a page over the speaker asking that the driver of the car and license plate number please come to the desk, there is a problem with your dog. She had to make the announcement 2x before the dumba$$ showed up. The puppy was okay, thank God, but some people are just idiots who cant be responsible to take care of their own selves much less something or someone else.
kwillia
n/a
Good find... I did a similar test myself one day. I picked a nice warm summer day and not necessarily an etremely hot day. I cracked all the windows and I even put the sun visor thingy in the front window. I got in the car and closed the door. It didn't take long at all to get uncomfortable and not very long at all to actually feel too hot to be sitting in the car.
Hank
my war
It was overcast, low 80's. Hardly what I would call a hot day.
MMM_donuts
New Member
I don't mean to be argumentative but isn't the argument against shaving a dog in the summer so that it retains it's natural cooling abillity? It wouldn't be the same thing as one of us wearing a fur coat in a car on a hot day. That would be like saying that taking a dog to the park on a hot day is like one of us wearing a fur coat while exercising at the park on a hot day except that it's perfectly fine and good for a dog to get out and exercise even when it's hot as long as it doesn't become excessive.
We have to get past the stigma that all dogs in vehicles are being mistreated when the actual issue has more to do with the time and temperature correlation.
Dogs get hot and they manage. What's bad is when dogs are excessively hot for an extended amount of time -time and temperature being relative to one another. The amount of time a dog/person is safe inside a vehicle is directly related to the temperature. The reason it isn't ok to leave a dog in a car on a hot day is because, unsupervised, it is difficult to accurately judge the temperature in the vehicle. In some cases it rises quickly, horribly, and dogs/babies are unable to communicate or escape the elevated temperatures.
There are situations where dogs and people are totally fine inside a vehicle and there are situations when they are not. Please, let's address this responsibly, not emotionally, and be honest and educated about it. It doesn't benefit anyone to be irresponsible on either end of the spectrum.
MMM_donuts
New Member
I want to be clear, I would agree that it seems mAlice did the right thing.
I just feel like the thread is shifting to imply that dogs in cars = mistreatment when I think that cannot accurately be made as an absolute statement.
I just feel like the thread is shifting to imply that dogs in cars = mistreatment when I think that cannot accurately be made as an absolute statement.
mAlice
professional daydreamer
Hank
my war
"The study, conducted during a local heat wave"
mAlice
professional daydreamer
I had to run the ac for the 20 minutes it took the cop to get there. Initially, I was just going to sit there with the door open, but even with the door wide open, it was very uncomfortable. And fwiw, the sun was shining.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Yeah! And to have to lick your balls or ass in these conditions!? I can't do it in a light wind breaker let alone my winter heavy!
mAlice
professional daydreamer
Ah, the afflictions of the long and lanky.
Dye Tied
Garden Variety Gnome
This is the point that these do-gooders miss. Hot and sunny, of course you wouldn't leave your dog in the car. When you open the car door and it's like an oven in there, that's your clue. Yesterday was neither hot nor sunny.
I'd love to know why all these people running around busting out windows aren't arrested for vandalism.
luvmygdaughters
Well-Known Member
Try sitting in a car, in the low 80's with the windows cracked for about 20 minutes and see how hot it gets.
luvmygdaughters
Well-Known Member
Its humidity and heat, doesnt have to be a sunny day. The temperature in a car on a summer day, regardless of the sun shining or not, gets extremely high. Think about it, even on a summer night its hot as hell. Thats why you have your A/C on, because its hot and uncomfortable.