I did wait around long enough for the dog's owner to return to the car. I would not have left without the owner or the police arriving to rescue the dog. While I was watching her and her friends stand around the car talking, a man went up to them and said something about them leaving the dog in the car in the heat.

I was very saddened by this young lady's lack of caring for her dog, a basset hound.

Good on bizgrrl for taking action.

I had a friend who lost a cat because she climbed into the backseat of the car one summer day when he was cleaning it out. He didn't see her, shut her up, and an hour or so later it was too late.

I witnessed a similar incident at Earth Fare a few weeks ago. As I was going in I saw a group of people gathered around a car in the far end of the lot. As I was leaving there was an animal control truck parked beside with the officer talking to an Earth Fare employee, who was holding a dog on a leash. Who knows how long he had planned to leave that dog in the car. An entire shift, I suppose.

Unfortunately many people consider dogs and cats just fashion accessories.

of course, some people should NOT have kids...period.

animal cops like they have in Houston...or whatever that city is that's on the Animal Planet Animal Cops show. They would have arrested the woman for animal cruelty on the spot and taken the dog to a vet first then the ASPCA shelter to hold it until the court hearing at which the woman would probably have been relieved of the burden of taking care of the poor thing. Obviously it was too much trouble for her to find a place to eat that she would be allowed to have the dog with her on the patio. Or better yet, she could have left the little one home in the air conditioning and just cleaned up the poop when she got home if the dog wasn't house trained yet.

People like her deserve to sit in an un-air-conditioned jail cell for a weekend...see how she likes it.

According to my paperwork Lulu is three years old today. It's just an estimate of course based on an examination when she was rescued on this date last summer.

Her family just up and moved away leaving her holed up in a crawl space starving and infested with heart worm. She was captured by animal control and taken to a shelter that doesn't bother trying to place evil Rottweilers. One of the staff had pity on her, called a rescue volunteer, and my little girl was saved.

I firmly believe that we all do eventually reap that which we sow.