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

[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.