Sep 05
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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