It’s getting HOT! HOT! HOT!
Yes, it is that time of year again. Although it feels like it is taking forever, spring is here and we are enjoying some super weather and with that super weather comes the hot dog warning.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it as long as people need the reminder. Please be super careful bringing your dog in the car. Dogs can overheat in under 10 minutes. Yep, just long enough to run in, grab some milk, get caught in a little line, have a nice chat with the clerk, run into a neighbor, you know how it goes.
If you don’t think it gets that hot, try riding in the back of my little station wagon behind the barrier where Scout and Pecan typically ride. Sometimes, it is completely comfortable for me in the front seat, but they are hot, hot, hot back there and my a/c doesn’t always reach way in the back as quickly as I’d like.
My dogs love me. I love my dogs. Because I love my dogs, I don’t bring them in the car as often in these deceptively hot months. Sure, I love their company. But I know what happens and we’ve lost some amazing dogs (clients, not our personal dogs) to hot cars.
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