Dog owner charged - its a good thing

[MGfromBC]

In BC we've just gone through a heat wave that has broken all high temperature records for the whole country.  The community that broke ALL records for the whole country ever, 3 days in a row, was then engulfed in a wildfire an the third day.  There have been about 700 deaths attributed to the heat over the past week.  As the heat and dry weather started to return to 'normal' summer levels there was a rash of thunder storms resulting in 79,000 lightening strikes in 24 hours.

What I'm trying to say is; IT WAS HOT.

Then social media exploded with pictures and video of a dog, in a crate, with its tongue out, on the back of a trailer, behind a truck, on the highway.

Heat wave: Police alerted after dog spotted in crate attached to trailer on B.C. highway | CTV News

MG

 

[tx2sturgis]

Jeeze that is inhumane....why cant the dog be allowed to ride in the cab with the owners?

Unbelievable.

 

[user 423]

They should make the owner trade places with the dog for a few hundred miles.

 

[maki2]

If the crate had been in the back of a pickup with the tailgate down no one would have come unglued over that. At least not in a rural area ?

 

[PeterPiper]

If the crate had been in the back of a pickup with the tailgate down no one would have come unglued over that. At least not in a rural area ?

If you lack compassion for animals, it might be easy to see it that way.

There are some fanatics in Mexico and the Middle East who would see you as less than the dog in the crate.

 

[MGfromBC]

At least you can still see the crate and remember you have a dog if it is in the back of your truck. People might also not assume that you are going hundreds of miles to the next camp sight in temps that stayed above 100 for days in a row. The owner is no longer the owner.

MG

 

[user 423]

There are some fanatics in Mexico and the Middle East who would see you as less than the dog in the crate.

My sister lives in Reno and that's how she would think

 

[tx2sturgis]

If the crate had been in the back of a pickup with the tailgate down no one would have come unglued over that. At least not in a rural area ?

In triple digit heat I would still not want to see the dog panting in a crate, no matter where the crate was located. And you can kinda keep an eye on a crate in the pickup bed...not likely to break loose or be stolen, or for that matter, bashed into by a tailgating/inattentive motorist.

 

[BelgianPup]

In normal hot temps, asphalt has been measured at 40 to 60 degrees hotter than the air temps.

Air temps in BC were recently in the area of 120F. Add 40 to 60 degrees = 160 to 180 degrees!

That dog's crate wasn't on a trailer, it was on one of those smallish shelves attached to the hitch thing on the back of their travel trailer (often holding tools, firewood, or a genny), maybe 2 feet off the ground. There was nothing to buffer the reflected pavement heat blasting the dog from below.