Comments | philia_fan: Rant at people who (I hope) are not you

philia_fan

Rant at people who (I hope) are not you

Jul 20, 2011 08:42

Yesterday I went to Whole Foods and parked next to a car with a dog in it. In the summer. 85 degrees out. Window was half-open, but seriously, who still does this, after all the info. out there about dogs in cars in the summer? I didn't know what to do. Poor golden retriever type doggie was panting like crazy. Should I go into Whole Foods, ( Read more... )

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fabricalchemist July 20 2011, 17:17:38 UTC

OMG GRRR

Having a dog of my own has totally brought out the maternal instinct. I would have gone in and told the service desk.

philia_fan July 21 2011, 01:16:22 UTC

I should have -- the extreme fatigue has made a coward of me. I just couldn't deal.

fabricalchemist July 21 2011, 01:36:57 UTC

Bleh, I think the heat alone would have made me addled. At least he was out of there by the time you got back!

tiegirl July 20 2011, 22:32:29 UTC

RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never seen this myself (thank the gods) but I have friends who have. They have tried many things, without much success: calling the police immediately (probably your best bet, but still not very fast), going into the store to the manager/service desk/security, or waiting to harangue the owners (the most dangerous option).
Maybe the news story about cooking a steak on the dashboard will get through to people?? Probably not, though. We can't stop hurting our own species, for crying out loud. By the time we figure that out we will have killed off every other species on the planet. (okay I should just not comment anymore, I'm just a barrel of laughs)

philia_fan July 21 2011, 01:20:13 UTC

ergh, I never have a phone!

It's like the people who take their kids to the laundromat and then are nowhere around when the kids start pulling heavy objects down on their heads. This used to happen to me all the time in my youth -- I was always rescuing small children. At least that was more straightforward, since you could reach the children --- harder when you can't get at the dog.

patesden July 21 2011, 17:54:30 UTC

I'd rather piss off my dog by leaving her home than have her roast to death.

I'm hoping the people were only in and out in a second, and that the car was still cool inside.