Question 76

One hot summer afternoon, while walking through a parking lot at a large shopping center, you notice a dog suffering badly from the heat inside a locked car.  What would you do?

All I know is someone who would do that to their animal deserves the very same thing to happen to them.  Pricks, WHY EVEN HAVE A DOG THEN?!  I was looking up things online that were legal to do to help dogs in locked cars.  Of course my first impulse would be to break the window so the dog could breath, but I would also worry about the dog cutting them self on the broken glass.  Luckily even though there are laws preventing you from breaking into someones car there are also federal laws preventing the needless suffering of animals, so contacting the police is 100% ok.  They come and hopefully catch the bastard and then he'll get slapped with a high fine and maybe jail time. I was reading an article on peta.org and a man in Naples, Florida was convicted of cruelty when his dog died after being locked in a car for four hours on a warm day, he was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $1,000 for "animal cruelty by abandonment".  The best part was what the judge said to the man, "I always try to have sympathy for defendants before making a decision, I don't have any sympathy for you,"  got exactly what he deserved as far as I'm concerned. So in summary, call the cops, but still hope the jerk who left their dog comes back to open the car in time, at the very basis of my rant I just want the dog to be ok.