So.. we're having a heatwave in Seattle. Hit a new record high today at 103 degrees.
I'm running errands this afternoon..parked in partial shade next to an SUV similar to mine, ran into the store and game back out to hear whining. I realized that it was a dog in the vehicle next to mine. I couldn't believe it. I stood up on my running board and peek through the crack in their rear seat window to see not one but two dogs.. a husky and a huge akita. Both of them looked very distressed. The akita's tongue was so dry it looked cracked.
I went into the store and they called over the intercom, but no one responded. I called the police who in turned called the Humane Society. The cops couldn't stand it so they slimjimmed the car door and got the dogs out so they could take them inside one of the air conditioned stores and we gave them water. The akita had to be carried. Finally the humane society showed up. At the same time, the dogs' owner comes running screaming about why someone let his dogs out. Cops arrested him for animal cruelty and the dogs were taken to a local vets by animal control. Someone took the temp inside the car after they'd opened the door. It was over 115 degrees.. and that was in the shade. No telling how long the dogs had been inside before I got there.
I got a call tonight from the animal control officer wanting more info and was told that both of them were spending the night at the vets and would be held somewhere and very likely never released back to the owner.
I really wish they'd put the guy inside his car tomorrow and let him sit there all day with no water.
I'm running errands this afternoon..parked in partial shade next to an SUV similar to mine, ran into the store and game back out to hear whining. I realized that it was a dog in the vehicle next to mine. I couldn't believe it. I stood up on my running board and peek through the crack in their rear seat window to see not one but two dogs.. a husky and a huge akita. Both of them looked very distressed. The akita's tongue was so dry it looked cracked.
I went into the store and they called over the intercom, but no one responded. I called the police who in turned called the Humane Society. The cops couldn't stand it so they slimjimmed the car door and got the dogs out so they could take them inside one of the air conditioned stores and we gave them water. The akita had to be carried. Finally the humane society showed up. At the same time, the dogs' owner comes running screaming about why someone let his dogs out. Cops arrested him for animal cruelty and the dogs were taken to a local vets by animal control. Someone took the temp inside the car after they'd opened the door. It was over 115 degrees.. and that was in the shade. No telling how long the dogs had been inside before I got there.
I got a call tonight from the animal control officer wanting more info and was told that both of them were spending the night at the vets and would be held somewhere and very likely never released back to the owner.
I really wish they'd put the guy inside his car tomorrow and let him sit there all day with no water.
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