I just read an article the other day about parents who leave/have left their child in the car. Not the a**hats who leave the kid in the car so they can go to the strip bar, or shopping or some such, but just average, harried parents trying to live a life that requires both parents to work, deliver kids hither, thither and yon, and the fact that now kids are tucked away in the backseat facing away from you (out of sight - out of mind). It was a heart-breaking read. There have been movements to install weight sensors in back seats with alarms like an open-door warning, etc; all kinds of ideas to try to prevent these tragedies, but one of the biggest factors in these things going nowhere is that people believe it will never happen to THEM. "I don't need that! I would never forget MY baby". The apparent pain of the people that have done this tempered my own leap to judgmentalism quite a bit. This guy may be an idiot who did this all the time and finally his dog paid the price, or it could be he is as devastated as I would be.
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That's awful, probably not intentional neglect....there was a lady I knew who rescues Corgis. This happened to her, by accident she left on of her dogs in the car in a crate. She called the dogs in (she had several) and noticed one was missing. They searched the neighborhood, shelters, etc. Found the dog's body a few days later in the car. Idk why it didn't occur to her to check the car...who knows maybe she was in denial and didn't want to look. But it was awful.
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I used to rush to judgment based on news articles like this, but I was wrong a couple of times and have learned to be a little more reserved. The article states that an investigation is still open, and there may be circumstances that have not yet been revealed.
A police canine died of heat stroke in Louisiana, only a few short years ago, while in the rear of a specially equipped Police K9 SUV. The officer had deliberately followed all of his department's guidelines for proper care of his partner, but the fan motor on his air-conditioned crate failed, and the dog died of heat stroke. Because the story had been reported prior to the conclusion of the investigation and readers had jumped to conclusions without all of the facts, the handler was villefied and his name was drug through the mud.
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I remember more than one LEO losing his partner because of defective AC equipment (or maybe the switch to turn it on remotely ... not sure .... something to do with AC failure).
My heart ached to think of that LEO dealing with that loss and then the horrible situation of being publicly blamed.
The facts about the AC failure didn't get anything like the coverage that the initial blame-story did.
Between kids dying from the heat when left in cars and those that are left because "I just ran in the store for a second",then the car gets stolen.
Both these situations happen way to often around here. It's pure laziness/carelessness/just plain stupidity.
When traveling, we have left the car running (locked and preferably in sight) and AC on, long enough to go inside and eat somewhere, but even then one of us would run back out to the car to check every 10-15 minutes or so. Cars can die, ACs can quit.
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