K-9 Dies After Two and a Half Hours in Locked Squad Car

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.theanimalrescuesite.com/pa-k9/?


A Pennsylvania Department of Corrections drug-detecting dog died after being left alone in a squad car for two and a half hours on July 7.

The dog’s handler, Sgt. Chad Holland, put some training materials in the car during an exercise at 12:15 p.m. that day, Department Spokeswoman Amy Worden reported. It wasn’t until 2:44 p.m. that Holland realized Totti, a 2-year-old yellow lab, was also inside.



According to PennLive, Holland, some fellow handlers, and Capt. Scott Vangorder, head of the Drug Interdiction Unit K-9 Academy, attempted to cool the unconscious dog down after it was taken from the car, and by 2:58 p.m. Totti had come to. Medical technicians couldn’t reverse his high creatine levels and heart rate, though, and Totti died at 7:30 p.m.

FULL story at link.




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[napi21]

1. Anyone who has a service dog, wither it be a cop or disabled individual, always

considers his dog as his best friend and would EVER let this happen! I HOPE the person responsible for this dog's death is severely punished!

[Demit]

2. I thought cops thought of police dogs as their partners.

Not to mention the dogs go through expensive training. Something wrong with a cop who would "forget" he left his K9 partner in a hot car. So cruel.

[LeftyMom]

3. NOPE! This happens all the time.

https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/police-dog-deaths-hot-car

Police dogs are dying of heat exhaustion at a horrific rate this summer (2015,) and a majority of those deaths have come when they were locked in hot squad cars for hours.

Since the last week of May, 11 K-9 unit dogs have died from the heat, and nine of those cases stemmed from dogs left in hot police cars. The latest tragedy struck last Wednesday in Kohler, Wisconsin, when a police dog named Wix died in a squad car as his handler worked at the PGA Championship. According to ABC News, the deputy left the air conditioner on in the squad car, but when the unit failed, Wix was trapped inside a vehicle that reached dangerously high temperatures. In fact, several of the incidents where police dogs died in hot cars this year have been blamed on faulty air conditioners.

When a dog is trapped inside a hot car, it's a torturous death. They try to chew their way out, often destroying the interior of the car, before succumbing to the heat.

Emphasis mine.