Dogs in cars

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Don't give up Denise!!

If someone is heartless enough to leave their dog in their car for too long and you can see that it's in distress they deserves to have a little sticky stuff left on their windshield after peeling the sticker off!

May get some official RSPCA flyers instead and leave them strategically around town (or is that littering.... )

[Jessika]

No no, don't give up -- just go about it in a different manner I think the flyers are a GREAT idea... and writing a letter to the local paper is a great start too! I think your notion is GREAT, I just wouldn't use stickers, I'd use flyers under the wipers and a call to the police. Because, like I said, a sticker can be peeled off (annoying as it may be), a flyer can be thrown away... but you can't ignore the cops!

[Canis-Lupess]

Ugh, I hate people who do that. Why take the dog with them if they are only going to leave it shut up in a car anyway?

I was watching a programme the other day with this subject in it. RSPCA officers at a show were going round the cars looking for dogs left shut in. Somebody reported a dog that had been left in the car from morning until afternoon and it was dead when the police and RSPCA got to it. The people who reported it left a note for the owners saying:

We watched your dog die at 3:30pm you IDIOTS...and we have informed the police.

The dogs in cars subject is so well put about that I can't understand how any dog owner could not know and leave their dogs in cars, especially on hot days. Some people are too thick to own pets.

[shais_mom]

Let me get this straight........

If I go into a store for a couple minutes to get, for instance, a gallon of milk, and leave Lady in the truck, which has had the A/C running, and is fairly cool, you feel that it is alright to vandalize my truck?

Sorry, I'd press charges in a heartbeat.

this is all the farther I've read and I'm inclined to agree with LH.
I have left Keegan in the car many times with all the windows down all if not part way - a bowl/cooler full of ice. And busted my A$$ to get in get what I have to get. Another time - you bet I left the windows up -
why?
b/c she was in there with the AC on FULL BLAST - and the car was locked and running. And again I busted my A$$ to get what I needed to get.
It's been hotter than you know what here too -
and in that respect - I just don't take her. She pants a lot anyway - and unless I'm taking her to my parents house - and have to run an errand on the way - that is the only time she rides in the car in the summer.
Would I charge them with vandalism? -
depends...
If someone watched me leave her there - and just as I walked to the store- I hear a smashing sound and they are busting my window- and she hasn't even been in there a minute. Ummm yea I'd press charges.
I don't agree with people to run into a sit down restaurant to eat and leave them in the car. That's ridiculous. That's someone that doesn't give a S--t about their animal and needs them taken away anyway. That is why they made drive-thrus. That and so you can share with the dog....

[shais_mom]

I don't really think you need to explain yourself anyone on here that knows you at all knows you are careful with lady.

I think he does feel the need to defend himself as do I b/c of....
these comments....

Excuse me. But are you people not reading what I posted about leaving a dog in the car with the AC on?

I agree completely. Anybody dumb enough to leave an animal alone in a
running car, deserves to have the cops come and talk to them about being
more responsible. (assuming the A/C is on)

Like my local PD told me THERE IS NO CURE FOR STUPID

People need to THINK THINGS THROUGH THINK OF ALL THE POSSIBILTIES THAT COULD GO WRONG NOT JUST ONE. WHY IS IT NOT OK TO LEAVE A BABY OR A CHILD IN THE CAR WITH THE AC ONE FOR 2-3 MINTUES BUT IT IS OK TO LEAVE A DOG?

actually - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...lyShow_3109965
that's not entirely true - leaving children in cars is also now becoming an epidemic - don't assume that its just animals people don't care about.
I think we both have reason to defend the fact that we enjoy traveling with our dog.
And I'm sorry - I'm going to be a &itch here and do it - but does anyone remember our own PT member that traveled from one coast to another with a dozen cats and a dog in car? And LH chops are getting busted for running in and getting a gallon of milk - HYPOTHETICALLY.

[Lady's Human]

That is why they made drive-thrus. That and so you can share with the dog....

Nope, Shais Mom... They made drive throughs so the pup in the passenger's seat can schmooze the drive through workers for an extra burger pattie, or donut, or puppy cookies from the bank.

[Catlady711]

Nope, Shais Mom... They made drive throughs so the pup in the passenger's seat can schmooze the drive through workers for an extra burger pattie, or donut, or puppy cookies from the bank.

They schmooze over cats at the drive through too, actually they gather a whole group at the window because they rarely see a cat trying to peek in their drive thru window. ROFL And the people at the bank keep appologizing because they only have a bowl with doggie treats to send back out instead of cat treats! LOL

[shais_mom]

They schmooze over cats at the drive through too, actually they gather a whole group at the window because they rarely see a cat trying to peek in their drive thru window. ROFL And the people at the bank keep appologizing because they only have a bowl with doggie treats to send back out instead of cat treats! LOL

Kloe's never been thru the bank but I did take her thru an ice-cream type place once when she was a kitten - and that caused quite the stir. I don't take her anywhere now b/c she gets car sick! She only goes to the vet in the carrier so I can keep the vomit contained!

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I hear a smashing sound and they are busting my window

I never once suggested that anyone smashes windows

[shais_mom]

I never once suggested that anyone smashes windows

I didn't intend to imply YOU did. I was just in agreement over the vandalism comment of LH. :>)

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I didn't intend to imply YOU did. I was just in agreement over the vandalism comment of LH. :>)

Have taken these comments on board and decided against the stickers