Pets Heatstroke
I nearly flipped out!
I was in town this afternoon and I noticed the car next to me had a small poodle-ish dog inside with the doors locked and not a window cracked. Come on people. Doesn’t everyone know by now that dogs can die from heatstroke in a matter of minutes in a sweltering car? They can’t perspire so to cool themselves they have to pant. If the air that they are taking in is too hot (as it is in a parked car in hot weather), then panting has little cooling effect and the dog quickly overheats.
Needless to say, I patiently waited for the owners return and politely as possible told her how dangerous this was for her puppy. I thought she was going to slap me, but I think I got my point across.