Like this:

Do not leave your dog in the car for one second in the AZ summer. Not for a second. Not for a minute. Not for a “I’ll be right back”

When I hear the phrase the dog days of summer, I think of being lazy at home, lounging around the pool. Just kicking it.

Which is very accurate for what our dogs should be doing. Besides a 5am walk before the sun comes up, dogs should be at home in the air conditioning. They wear a fur coat and have paw pads that are sensitive to hot asphalt, so it is ok for them to be lazy at home during the hot summer days.

Seems like an easy enough thing to do, but some pet parents think that their dogs want to come run errands with them during the hot summer days. Resist this train of thought and leave the dogs at home.

Some pet parents are just absent minded and put their dog in danger anyways like Dan Harkins, read this story….

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_northeast_valley/scottsdale/owner-of-harkins-theatres-cited-for-leaving-dog-in-hot-car

Dont be a DH.

Do not bring your dogs with you unless you can bring them inside the store with you. Well as in the story above, can isnt good enough as DH could have taken his dog in his own business. SO …not unless you will take them in the store with you. DO NOT leve the in an unattended CAR aka OVEN unless you want to kill your dog and be fined and or sent to jail.

My friend Danielle of Bellas house and petsitting, posted this on her facebook and I think it is a great visual about how hot cars get, http://www.mydogiscool.com/x_car_study.php

It gets hot in the car…try to turn the car off and sit there. See how long it takes you to get uncomfortable. Then how long it takes to be unbearable. For me its about 2 mins and im dying. And im in shorts and a tank top, not a fur coat.

People can open the door and escape the heat. Dogs cant, they are at the mercy of their owners coming back and saving them. Sometimes its to late and dogs die in cars. Thats a awful way to go, to be cooked to death because your owner locked you in a hot car and you couldn’t escape and succumbed to the heat.

and Therese of Petsitusa posted this, http://petsitusa.com/blog/?p=456

If you feel bad about leaving your dog at home while you run errands all day… hire a pet sitter to come by and play inside with your pups. Or leave a treat filled kong. Or bring then a “present” from one of the store you went to.

Whatever you do….leave them at home.  It is our responsibility as pet owners to keep them safe.

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