Quote Originally Posted by Navy View Post
I agree, last week I was at the mall, and outside in 97F heat were two poodles with the windows barely cracked, I was about to call the police when they showed up.
When I used to work at Petco, we had a few incidences where we had to call owners out to their cars to get their animals out of the heat. There was somebody who left a dog in their car and walked into the store next door, they were probably in the car for 20 minutes and in 90+ degree heat (think of how much warmer it was in the car, without windows cracked), panting away as we tried to contact the owners, even went into the other store and had them call it out on the intercom. Nobody showed up, so somebody called the police, who came and busted the window and got the dog out.


It was painful moving to Washington from Nebraska a couple summers ago, with no AC in my car. Left my pet rats I had with me with a friend in Nebraska because they would've cooked in the car. Brought my Senegal parrot, and misted him down with cool water every once in a while, and drove the whole way with the windows down. He didn't seem to mind the heat, but I was dying... it gets hot FAST in cars, even if it isn't too warm outside, if it's a sunny day, it will bake whatever is inside.


Getting cooked isn't really a pleasant way to go for any creature, except maybe Tardigrades, AKA Moss Piglets, who would probably laugh in the face of car-heat.