I never leave Gonzo in the car, if I'm going somewhere where he can't come in, I make sure to bring along a friend so they can sit outside with him or in the car with the AC onGonzo would also freak out and cry the whole time if I left him in my car.
I've been scared about leaving my pup anywhere public ever since a dog was stolen from a car with it's windows down in a nearby parking lot. The dog was never found. It's SO easy for anyone to do that if the windows are 1/2 way down and the dog is fairly small... to me, it just isn't worth it. I equate leaving a dog in a car alone to leaving a toddler in a car alone. Can you do it? yes. Is it dangerous? yes.
Leaving a dog in a car with windows up, AC on, doors completely locked and alarm on in a public parking lot is fine to me. I'm REALLY happy when I see dogs hanging out in cars with the AC blasting while their humans run inside of a store. But when people let their dogs suffer in a hot car, windows down or NOT, it isn't fun for the dogs, its deadly. Trust me, I've sat in a car when it was 80* with the windows ALL the way down, and I could not stand it after a while ~ thats me, with a much more advanced cooling system than any dog and a t-shirt and the ability to get out of the hot car. Last week, me and my sister went to this restaurant after church, and there was a truck out front with 2 Pit Bulls in the BURNING hot old metal pick-up bed with no shade, and 3 dogs in the cab!!! Seriously. The cab had it's windows cracked, and the dogs inside were barking constantly, as were the 2 in the pick-up. We went inside and told them to urgently page the people who owned the truck and the dogs, because they were in danger of dying. We were soooo pissed. We waited outside for the owner, and totally told him off >_<... "I'm just going to have a nice long sunday brunch while my dogs die of heat stroke!"
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