Sep05
PETA Partners With KIDS AND CARS to Save Animals
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KIDS AND CARS, a national nonprofit organization, is dedicated to preventing injuries and deaths of children in nontraffic, motor-vehicle–related events, including being left alone in a hot car. For years, PETA has been issuing hot-weather alerts and urging television and radio stations to broadcast summer advisories about why animals must never be left in parked cars. Now, PETA's alerts will also include information about KIDS AND CARS and why children need protection from the heat. In turn, KIDS AND CARS will include information about PETA's heat-wave alerts in its news releases.
Because dogs don't perspire as humans do and can only sweat through their footpads and cool themselves by panting, they can succumb to heatstroke in just 15 minutes. Human children are also very susceptible to heatstroke because their brains are not fully developed, so their body temperature cannot be regulated as efficiently as an adult's can.
If you see a dog (or a child) left alone in a car and there is enough time to do so, take down the car's color, model, make, and license-plate number and have the owner paged inside the store, or call local humane authorities or police right away. Do whatever is necessary to get the victim out of the car—his or her life may depend on it.
PETA's "Don't Let Your Dog Get Hot Under the Collar" leaflets can be placed on vehicles to remind people never to leave unattended animals inside cars (please make sure this is legal in your city first). Order or print yours today … and Sparky will thank you with grateful little puppy kisses.
Posted by Carrie Ann Harris
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Well, seeing that there is no facts given, how can people prove efficiantly that Dogs can have heatsroke with our requiring tests? I have a dog and my family and I take her with us when we visit our family members in Texas. When we stop at a grocery store, we couldn't bring her in with us! No Pets allowed in Wal-Mart. We leave her in the car. Diamond (our dog) enjoys car rides and she loves to see people out the windows. When we come back after a half an hour, she is usually sleeping in the SUNLIGHT, )oh, but it will cause heatstroke) or looking out the window. We have done this mutiple times and our dog has been alive for three years and still alive today! The point is, heatstroke is extrememley rare for animals because animals have an inticnt to sruvive extreme hot/cold weather. Only dogs that are bred in hotter/colder areas have get use to enviromental tempatures because they're not use to it.The same way someone in South America come to visit Alaska has to adapt to the weather. Of course every place in the world has its own unique tempatures but so animals in that area are already use to it.
Posted by: CC | September 5, 2008 12:43 PM
Anybody with the brains to drive should have the common sense not to leave any kind of animal in a hot car. Sometimes the only solution is to do what Toronto Humane Society officer Tre Smith did last year—bust the glass.
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | September 5, 2008 12:57 PM
THANKS FOR BRING THIS UP ! IT'S SO HOT IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. THANK GOODNESS...I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS DOWN HERE. THE MESSAGES IS GETTING OUT. BUT IT'S SAD TO SEE A DOG IN A PICK-UP TRUCK IN 110 DEGREE WEATHER.I FEEL THAT A DOG OUT IN THE BACK OF A PICK-UP TRUCK ISN'T RIGHT EITHER. WITH THE HOT SUN ON THEM, BAKING IN THE HEAT ON THE HOT STREET.
Posted by: SASHA | September 5, 2008 09:24 PM
I hate it when people do that.If you've ever had to wait in a hot car you know what i mean...imagine doing it in a thick fur coat!!
Posted by: Claire Highsmith | September 5, 2008 09:29 PM
this is great.
Posted by: erika | September 6, 2008 08:18 PM
Very good, PETA you are so good with the animals
Posted by: liliana | September 7, 2008 01:52 PM
It may seem crazy to bust the glass in a starnger's car, but as this article says, a life may depend on it!!! Do whatever necessary
~JahLove
Posted by: JahLove | September 7, 2008 06:18 PM
One person said that anyone with a brain knows not to leave a dog or child in a hot car- not true. Many people have brains but arely use them.
My husband and I see dogs in trucks and cars all the time. And we live in Texas. And this has been one hot summer. I would even suspect that with the window rolled down- it is still too damn hot for a dog or person to be left in the car. The AC would have to going for to be even somewhat comfortable. If a human can't stand it- why the hell would the onwer believe their dog can? Some people truly don't think at all.
Posted by: bbr | September 8, 2008 10:49 AM
I think peta is ok
Posted by: Macy | September 13, 2008 02:03 PM
CC: How about you sit in the car with your dog every time your family goes in the store?? Then you'll know for sure that it isn't too hot. Then again--maybe one day you'll come out to find that your dog is missing and you'll never see her again. Then you might wish you had a been a little better of a companion....
Posted by: Antigone1000 | September 14, 2008 03:21 PM
CC, you are very confused about the physiology of dogs. I don't want to spend half an hour explaining it to you, so please, I beg you ask your veterinarian to explain why its dangerous to leave your dog in a hot car. Your vet can answer all your questions.
If you don't have a vet, please either get one right away or give Diamond to a family who is going to properly take care of her. I'm not joking.
Posted by: Maya, CVT | September 15, 2008 12:24 PM