Dogsey

Sorry we have parked in the shade for 30 years windows open and make sure they are not left for more than 20 minutes and they have all been fine. Do people live in the real world who give this advice ? what do they suggest we do with them when we are on holiday and need to buy food or have an emergency ?

Yesterday we were in a garden centre cafe having lunch someone had left their dog in their mini no windows open and they called over the tannoy 4 times. In the end someone from the shop popped in the cafe and all of a sudden an elderly lady with prompting from her friends realised it was her car.
She was kind of shamed in front of us all as the lady from the shop said it is very hot in your car. Please go and open a window at least for your dog.
She was sat there chatting and eating lunch. My brother is not an animal person but he was cross too and said to me why not get a crate leave the boot open and padlock the crate to the boot or something.
That is the sort of thing that people need to stop doing sitting enjoying life in an air conditioned space while their dogs cook to death in a car.

Perhaps the warning had something to do with this article

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-...-fife-27490615

which also happened in Scotland, where the warning has been issued?

I noticed a dog which had been left in a car in full sun with only a window cracked open a few weeks ago in our huge local Tesco. I went back in to the store to Customer Services and asked them to make an announcement for the car owner to return to his car. Shockingly they said they are no longer allowed to make an announcement for the safety of a dog, only a child. As I came out having let them know how horrified I was at this new ruling the owner returned to his car. To be honest he wasn't the sort of person I felt happy talking to but another man mentioned it it him. There was a lot of verbal abuse from the dog owner. God help the poor dog this coming summer.

The only time my dogs go out in the car routinely is for dog walks and the air con is always on and I'm in the car with them. Other than that we have a timeshare in Scotland and the dogs come too and as there are two of us the dogs have never been left unattended in the car while we shop etc. If eating out we always choose somewhere we can keep an eye on the car and we have the tailgate open with the tailgate guard locked tbh I can't see why I would ever need to leave the dogs in the car at any other time.

Well we obviously lead different lives sometimes they have to come to work with me and I can't take them in, holidays as I said food shopping often it's not something I can do alone and my husband doesn't like doing it alone so again they are in the car. We tend to shop early morning or late night when it's cooler if we can. But there are times it is unavoidable.

I have to admit I can't understand what you're saying Julie my dogs welfare would always take precedence over my likes and dislikes. Of course we all lead different lives and if not on holiday my dogs would never be in the car while I was shopping I'd take them home first and then go shopping. If travelling and we stop at motorway services for a toilet break and a snack, we're not joined at the hip and we'd take it in turns for a wee and bring the snack etc back to the car. I can see no reason why I would ever have the dogs in the car while going to a garden centre, I'd simply leave them at home where they're safe and sound.

My dogs welfare is always in my mind but I won't send my husband into situations he isn't comfortable with either. If he hadn't had a stroke and his aspergers wasn't as it is I would happily send him in but our lives are not perfect and he comes top of the list with the dogs and the children. None of them are second best or thought less of.

I don't believe I made any mention of second best at all and as someone who's had two strokes I definitely didn't mention those either. The way I see it is I don't take them with me to attend my many hospital appointments so why take them with me anywhere unless it's for their benefit.
It's an opinion Julie not a personal attack.