Dogs in cars

huskydog
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edited July 2016 in Your Pets #1

just a post to new dog owners to  remind them not to leave your dog in your car now the wether is warming up .

An outside temp of 22c can reach up to 47c inside your car in an hour,get a thermometer and leave in your car to see how hot it gets, there are times when we need to nip in to the shop ,but leave someone with your dog so you can wind down all the windows
and everyone's happy

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  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,402 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited July 2016 #2

    Thanks, HD, a very timely reminder. Let's hope the weather does start behaving itself. We do exactly what you suggest when shopping; in fact we also do it if we want to visit NT properties - one of us will sit with the dogs and read or maybe take them for
    a walk while the other looks round then we'll swap roles. It's a small enough sacrifice really. Happy

  • Bakers2
    Bakers2 Forum Participant Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭
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    edited July 2016 #3

    Very timely reminder. May I add that the same applies to children being left alone in a vehicle? 

  • briantimber
    briantimber Forum Participant Posts: 1,653
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    edited July 2016 #4

    Last weekI had to ask a grumpy gent to open his car windows as he had two dogs in his car and was going into Lidl's,."Whats it got to do with you?" was his reply, I pointed out that it was a sunny day and cars got very hot in the sun and would distress his
    dogs, "mind your own business" was his retort, ok, said I, I'll ring the RSPCA and tell them what you are doing and give them your car registration number. He tried to stare me out and realised that I wasn't going to let the matter go, he then opened all his
    windows whilst muttering something like "interfering old git" under his breath. Thank you, I replied  and continued walking wiith Alfie....Yell

  • huskydog
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    edited July 2016 #5

    This is the problem ,people don't appreciate how hot the inside of a car can get , and just remember us dogs can't take our coats offSurprised

  • Pippah45
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    edited July 2016 #6

    My SIL is oblivious to all the warnings and now thinks the sloping back window of her car deflects the sun better than the straight up back window of previous car!  What angle do they put solar panels at?!  

    I have a gate on the back of my car and can leave the tailgate up with the dogs padlocked in and the rest of the car locked.  Only for a quick dash in the hottest weather but they have never got unduly hot.  Dogs can't sweat which is why they mustn't overheat
    very dangerous for them. 

  • Riba
    Riba Forum Participant Posts: 70
    edited July 2016 #7

    We live opposite a dog sanctuary that had it's annual open day yesterday, and twice during the day they had to come over tannoy to tell someone to go back to their car and let their dog out before they smashed their window.

    What sought of Muppet goes to a dogs home and then leaves a dog to cook in a car Yell

  • surburban2000
    surburban2000 Forum Participant Posts: 84
    edited July 2016 #8

    I saw adog in a picup cab in parkinglot carpark the doors locked and the truck moter running and AC on  and two smell dogs in a runnig statoinwagon estate with AC on in the Campingword carpark wy cant the Mupets leav the dogs at home or at freinds house
    insted of ideling the car and burning fuel YellJ&I

  • Pippah45
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    edited July 2016 #9

    I take mine with me as one is neurotic and the other a rescuee - and I live so far from anywhere leaving them at home would often mean an extra two hours at least of them being alone.  Lots of reasons to keep the dogs close.  But not in really hot cars of
    course.

  • IanH
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    edited July 2016 #10

    Last weekI had to ask a grumpy gent to open his car windows as he had two dogs in his car and was going into Lidl's,."Whats it got to do with you?" was his reply, I pointed out that it was a sunny day and cars got very hot in the sun and would distress his
    dogs, "mind your own business" was his retort, ok, said I, I'll ring the RSPCA and tell them what you are doing and give them your car registration number. He tried to stare me out and realised that I wasn't going to let the matter go, he then opened all his
    windows whilst muttering something like "interfering old git" under his breath. Thank you, I replied  and continued walking wiith Alfie....Yell

    Very well done, Brian.......

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