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The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:10:49 PM

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i don't usually start these sorts of threads, but this is just killing me inside - and i have to do something.

i found out today that my friends' dog died on Saturday when she and her husband accidentally forgot about it in the car in the Texas heat.

They had run to the store and took their doggie with them - they left the windows cracked and rushed through the store and back out to him. He was fine at that point. They then went home, unloaded the car in the driveway - and didn't notice that he had stayed inside.

No more than 20 minutes later the husband went back out to the car to run another errand - and found him in the back seat, dead from heat stroke. i don't want to describe the scene - but it was absolutely horrible. And now they have to go on with their lives knowing that that one moment of forgetfulness cost their doggie his life.

Please, if you live in a hot climate, consider leaving your pet(s) at home where they're cool and protected - i know i'm hugging my doggie tight today.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:12:43 PM

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This has happened to children as well.

People in Texas just don't care about anything other than God, hating fags and earl.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:14:44 PM

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i know, right? i didn't even want to bring up the people that forget their human babies in the car.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:16:41 PM

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I remember when I worked with a woman who's dog died of heat stroke in their apartment. They had no AC and it was a hot summer. The dog was a chow. She just didn't get that the chow, with all of it's fur, was not made to withstand high temperatures.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:16:51 PM

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They are lucky to have you for a friend. If they were my friends, I would report them to the local SPCA. What they did is abuse and neglect that probably is a felony.

What they did is inexcusable. Anyone with a brain knows that the temp in a car in the heat can get over 100 degrees in a matter of moments. Dogs can not cool them selves. Cracking the windows does nothing in the heat.

Good grief, it is making me sick to think that there are still folks in the world that choose to ignore such things.

I pray they never have kids. They are not responsible enough to own a hamster.

If anyone on these boards is ignorant enough to not know this, hopefully this will save one dog.

Now, I must go puke.......

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:21:06 PM

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I am going to report my friends to the local SPCA. Their dog died from cancer.

Why then would I report them? You see, just like, JstAnotherSub, I am a dick too.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:24:43 PM

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I once killed two hamsters by leaving them in the car. My wife at the time insisted it would be ok. My daughter cried.

We are divorced.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:24:49 PM

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They are lucky to have you for a friend. If they were my friends, I would report them to the local SPCA. What they did is abuse and neglect that probably is a felony.

What they did is inexcusable. Anyone with a brain knows that the temp in a car in the heat can get over 100 degrees in a matter of moments. Dogs can not cool them selves. Cracking the windows does nothing in the heat.

Good grief, it is making me sick to think that there are still folks in the world that choose to ignore such things.

I pray they never have kids. They are not responsible enough to own a hamster.

If anyone on these boards is ignorant enough to not know this, hopefully this will save one dog.

Now, I must go puke.......

So what you are saying is that a moments neglect deserves us to condemn these people to a fiery hell...

You know, it sucks that people do stupid shit and have accidents, but for crying out loud, criminalizing everything is part of what I think makes America suck....

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:32:19 PM

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Oh silly lil Julia....By condemning nearly everything gives us a hint where to begin to look for our enjoyment.

I can remember back in the late seventies when coasting (car/roasting) our pets was really hip.

I once made out with Geraldine Tomack on top of a 145 degree expired pomeranian. She used it as a pillow. It was hot. I was her first "bad boy."

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:33:54 PM

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Oh silly lil Julia....By condemning nearly everything gives us a hint where to begin to look for our enjoyment.

I can remember back in the late seventies when coasting (car/roasting) our pets was really hip.

I once made out with Geraldine Tomack on top of a 145 degree expired pomeranian. She used it as a pillow. It was hot. I was her first "bad boy."

I remember when playing Russian Roulette with your wee ones was the rage! Even my mom would put me in the front seat without a seatbelt to see how far I would fly if she had to stomp on her brakes

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:36:09 PM

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I remember a time when dash boards wern't padded.

We had it tough, not like you kids today

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:38:50 PM

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some people will be stupid - no matter what.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:44:24 PM

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I remember a time when dash boards wern't padded.

We had it tough, not like you kids today

Yes, and we had cars, like the Pinto, that would put on a fireworks display in rear end collisions... damn, I am dating myself here

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:48:16 PM

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I'm pretty sure my mom smoked through my pregnancy....We were part of the X games before there were X games.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:50:54 PM

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I remember when there were no car seats for babies. You just put them on the bench seat next to you and did the quick, right arm out to catch, if you had to hit the brakes.

It improved reflexes.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:51:43 PM

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My mom smoked throughout her pregnancy with me, the doctor warned her and warned her about the possibility of birth defects but she ignored him.

Well, when I was born the doctor said, see I told you!!!!! right there at the end of my spinal column was a cute little butt.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 2:56:46 PM

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So what you are saying is that a moments neglect deserves us to condemn these people to a fiery hell...

You know, it sucks that people do stupid shit and have accidents, but for crying out loud, criminalizing everything is part of what I think makes America suck....

I am saying that anyone who is old enough to own a car and drive and go to the store and own a dog should know that you do not leave them in a car on a hot day for even a few minutes.

I am sure they will sentence them selves to hell, as they remember how dumb they were to do such a thing.

There are times when a few moments of neglect are a few too many. When it come to leaving a dog in a hot car and "not noticing" that it did not get out, well......you may call it neglect, I have another word for it, but I will go with neglect to be sweet and all that.

Forgetting kids and dogs in cars are things that I will never understand how they could happen. It is just moronic as hell in my mind. Your mind may see it differently, and that is just fine.

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 3:04:10 PM

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Forgetting kids and dogs in cars are things that I will never understand how they could happen. It is just moronic as hell in my mind. Your mind may see it differently, and that is just fine.

I know of parents that turned their heads for one minute and their world shattered...

Kids dash into streets, so do dogs....

Kids even get into cars and shut themselves up in them...

They get into stored refrigerators and hide in them

Their parents leave their mop water while they answer the phone, and they drown in the mop water.

They get into your meds (this happened to my son, had to have his stomach pumped)

I agree, this is a stupid mistake, one these people will never make again. I just don't get reporting your friends to the cops when you know their heart is broken. It is like sending parents to prison because their kid made a beeline into traffic... "well they should have known better!" Well, yeah, in a perfect world accidents don't happen

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 3:11:03 PM

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You are right. Now that I am calmer, I realize I would not call the cops on friends. I would cook them chicken and dumplins and take it to them and hold them while they cried.

I still find leaving a dog in a car unbelievable. All the other examples you gave are in totally different categories to me. This was something that was so easily preventable, and it is something we hear about here in the south too many times.

Now I must cry for Jeffffs poor hamsters.......

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RE: The Heat and Pets - 6/21/2010 3:38:27 PM

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Kids even get into cars and shut themselves up in them...

They get into stored refrigerators and hide in them

Hot diggity damn fuckin-A if those were not the good ol' days....remember when getting locked in a fridge was more of a parental concern than an amber alert?

That was before magnets and fridge doors locked. You would take the damn door off its hinges before discarding it.

Apparently back in the day, kids loved discarded fridges more than getting knocked up or playing video games.

I could have guessed that Ron's mom smoked crack throughout her pregnancy....She was a trendsetter...Doc looked down at lil' Ronny and said, "This one ain't right in the head."

edited to add: divi is a twat.

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