New Nevada law makes it a crime to leave pet in hot vehicle

Is your body naturally 103 degrees and covered in hair? Are you unable to open doors to escape, windows to breathe, or call for help? I'm African. I know heat, and I had dogs (and geese and pigs and chickens and monkeys and etc) there. I know heat. The absence keeling over dead does not mean safe. A husky bred for cold weather will not handle heat as well as a small chihuahua with short hair and a small body built for heat dissipation. You are probably not a dog (and if you are: whoosa good dog? It's you! You're the best dog!) and I'm assuming you don't respond to calls of trapped or overheated dogs often like I do. Dogs are living things, and as such, their bodies respond to different situations on an individual basis. Put a happy, hydrated greyhound in a hot car for a while and he'll most likely get out and run laps. His body is made for heat dissipation. Put a hairy golden retriever who has not had water before his trip in a hot car and you have an unresponsive dog in 15 minutes. Your comparisons between animals who cannot help themselves and people who can willingly get up and leave a situation when they are in jeopardy do not undo the many real cases of unintentional, but very real, animal endangerment. Hell, I'm glad when I get a call and it is a "self-righteous asshole" who is wrong about a dog being in danger. Your animal is more important than your attitude or your window.

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