Additionally, about a year ago a friend of mine left his police dog in his unit while he ran inside to handle business at headquarters. The car was equipped with a heat sensor/pager that kept him informed of the temperature in the unit. He was inside about 10 minutes when dispatch received a cell call of a unit BURNING in the parking lot. Something went wrong with the AC unit nad it began to smoke before it started burning. Becasue it was a short circuit in the car wiring, the unit never went off. The car filled with toxic smoke from melting plastic before the unit caught fire. Because of the short circuit none of the electronics - including windows and door locks would work. JJ had to knock out windows, which isn't easy with BC glass, and climbed through inside the burning car three times to get the boy out. He, the 'Beast' as he was affectionately known, died later at the vet of smoke inhalation. I posted this to the list when it happened. Leave a dog inside a car unattended??? NOT ME!!! NO WAY! -- Suzanne www.tsalishepherds.com Home of Ch Cookie HT PT RN TC CGC, Ch Flair, BIS/BISS Ch Yancy HIC HT PT RN TC CGC BH, Ch Flash, Mousser (13 points/1 mjr), Tess, and Lil' Miss Gilli! Website updated 08/06 -------------- Original message -------------- From: LeBrowngsd@xxxxxxx > In a message dated 8/12/2006 12:22:57 AM Central Daylight Time, > CHBLACKVELVET@xxxxxxx writes: > Excuse my ignorance, but WHY would this be unsafe????? One would think this > would be good for the dogs on a hot day. > ****************************************************************************** > > ********************** > Because you never know when the engine will quit. It does not take very long > for a car or van to heat up. A friend of mine in Aussie just told me that her > handler lost 8 dogs this week from leaving them in the van with the air > running. The generator quit and in 1 hour 8 of the 9 dogs were dead. > > Can never be to careful with this heat. > > Lee Brown > ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================