People Leaving their Dogs in Vehicle during Hot Days

It upsets me to the point that usually I end up leaving a note on the car window, stating that they should leave their dog at home, or somewhere air conditioned if they had planned on making stops that would keep the dog inside that car for any length of time during the summer months. Here there is a real problem with pet deaths, because of owner's leaving their pet in the car when it is hot and humid outside. It gets ten times hotter inside a vehicle, according to whatever the temperature may be outside. At the rate pets are dying because of the stupidity of some humans, I believe some sort of punishment should be inacted, that way people would start wising up to the fact, that it's just not wise to leave a pet in the car during the summer hot months. I am not sure at how severe the punishment should be, but I think it should be something stern enough that the person wouldn't make the same mistake.

I know and that is bad. Here where we live they go to jail if they find animals in the hot vehicles.

To me, this is just as bad as leaving your kid in the car on a hot day! Dogs die from heat related incidences as well!

I have seen this in alot of places.I do feel that they should be punished because to me thats like living a child in the car buy theirself.I would like to see more thins to be done about it.I have flad down a animal protection for them to handel it.I think that they should do some jail time.

Yes the owners of those dogs should be punished how would they like it if they were sitting in the hot weather. I would call the animal protection because that is cruelty. I take my dog with me as long as I know that I am going to be in and out fast to some places. But I wouldnt make my dog sit in the car for long periods.

I don't know where you live, but here it is illegal to leave a pet in a car when it is hto out. So yes, if you see and animal sitting in a car alone during the heat you can call animal protection services and talk to them about it. Ask them to send someone to talk to the owner. I hate this too, people leaving animals in cars. You know the animal doesn't want to sit back there, baking, just waiting for their owner to be done with their business!

I think people that leave their dogs in hot cars should be forced to sit in their car on a hot day- same as what they did to their dog....I would definately call animal protection if I saw that

I agree, something should be done about it. Some people just don't realize how fast a car can become hot. It's the same as people leaving babies and small children in the car. They get in trouble so why not the people that leave their pets. I only leave my pet in the car if I have someone else with me who is staying in the car so that I can leave the car running if need be. I think that they should be fined and leave the rest for the judge or jury to decide and I would call if i seen it.