Would you break into someone's hot car for a dog?

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46. in general no, I would leave well enough alone

In general most dogs are gonna get riled up if you mess with the car they are in. Hmm, the more riled up they get, the hotter they will get.

My experience has mostly been on the other side of this.

The first experience was of my parents. On a family vacation when they came out of a mall or some shopping center there was a note on their car. Said something like "you are so cruel to keep a dog in a hot car like this. I tried to get him out."

Well, isn't that special.

In the end, the dog was perfectly fine, if perhaps a little bit hot, but my parents got to read some hateful, judgmental note from a self-righteous busybody. Imagine if that same fool thought they were justified smashing a window and stealing a dog. Imagine instead, if my parents got hassled by the cops for no reason.

Fast forward 15 years and now I continually get harrassed, now by animal control, for leaving my dogs in my car. Even on cool spring days, or winter days, when my dogs are in ZERO danger from the heat.

It seems that some busybody control freaks are so concerned about the safety and well-being of dogs, that they want to take away one of the dog's biggest joys in life - going on a car ride. Sure that makes perfect sense - take a whole bunch of happiness from the lives of millions of dogs in order to save a few thousand.