85 degrees here in Denver, just saw a dog in the back of a truck with a black rhino

[Demonaut]

bed coating (the kind they spray on)
he looked very uncomfortable but his owner probably didn't notice thru the ac and tinting
and the empty seat next to him


some people should not be allowed to own dogs

[guardian]

1. My vet

always calls dogs in the back of a pickup truck a "future patient".

[Slammer]

2. That's a relief

...I thought this was going to be about the excessive heat causing hallucinations.

[a la izquierda]

3. Ugh, jackass.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Sad. poor dog

[Slammer]

5. Not to excuse the owner

...but when I was a kid (many years ago), our dog loved riding in the back of the truck and so did I. The truck didn't have air conditioning and summer temps were quite often over 110 degrees plus high humidity due to, among other things, flooded rice fields which surrounded us. Of course, I had no idea how dangerous it was to ride like that.

The dog you saw was probably more comfortable with his pads on that bedliner at 85 degrees than my dog was on a metal surface at 114 degrees. And my dog begged to get into the *back* of the truck regardless of the temperature. Yeah, the owner was probably just being a jerk but it possibly could be that he let the dog do exactly what the dog wanted to do.

[Demonaut]

8. seriously?...no way that bed liner was only 85 degrees, direct sun and black..mind you this was

not a plastic liner, my experience with that bed surface is that it gets much hotter than ambient temp

[xchrom]

6. I hate that. Dogs in the back of a pick up

Is illegal in Cali - a reasonable law that should be every where.

[LeftyMom]

7. No, they're required to be in a carrier or tied down to two points unless the truck sides are 46".

There's nothing requiring them to be inside the vehicle, and of course it gets a lot hotter than 85 here.

I still see a ton of dogs in truck beds, and if they're tied down at all it's usually done so badly they might as well not be.