Disgusting - New Orleans Idiots

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Though it seems to have taken it a while to become public, New Orleans just lost another police dog. This is third New Orleans police dog to die in recent months!

The dog, a beautiful Belgian Malanois, died of heat - locked in a car for hours in late May. The poor creature totally shredded the fabric of both front seats desperately trying to escape the heat.

I cannot believe a police officer responsible for a dog in this part of the country would be so ignorant. Cars can reach 120 degrees in 20 minutes in this heat and even in May the sun heats cars up quickly. It's bad enough when the public is ignorant of this but to have such a trained animal as your partner on the job ....it's inexcusable.

A second dog died in New Orleans of heartworms - another unacceptable death. Any dog in this coastal area should be on heartworm preventative and failure to provide that medication for a trained service dog is stupidity.

The third death was a dog that fell down an elevator shaft during a "training exercise". Avoidable? Don't know, but sounds like the people are the ones who need the training there.

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  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    Hi, Kay,

    A similar thing happened in the UK when two police dogs were left in a car.

    In Spain, less fuss was made when a two year old child was left in a car for five hours in temperatures of 40+º and probably died after two of them. The mother claimed that the car was left in the shade but, of course, the shade tends to move with the sun.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Shade doesn't help much anyway in a hot climate like we have here. I think people just don't realize that even with mild temperatures outside the combination of a hot engine and being in an enclosed glass bubble can be deadly to small children and pets.

      So far this year there has not been a child's death - hope it lasts as there are usually one or two every summer. Do they have the car safety rules in Spain that they have in the US - where small children are required to ride in the back seat?

      That has been responsible for most of the deaths here as parents rushing to work have a child in the back quietly asleep and they become distracted, rush into work forgetting to drop the child at day care. In the years before children were relegated to the back seat (for their safety) I never once heard of a child forgotten in a car seat.

      We say, of course, that WE would never do that but a study I read this year found our minds tend to focus on daily repetitive tasks and it was shocking to read how quickly test subjects forgot to do things that were "interruptions" to their daily routine. The study was of the brain wave patterns of subjects that were studied - interesting stuff.

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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    I hope they prosecute the person responsible for the life of the dog left in the car. I can't believe a cop would be that stupid. As well about the heart worm. The elevator may have been just an accident but failure to care for an animal is another story altogether.

    RIP ferocious police dogs.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
      Originally Posted by Patrician View Post

      I can't believe a cop would be that stupid.
      LOL. No comment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Laura Varon
    I gave my dog to the police in april. She was a mixed great dane/lab black puppy, the most adorable and most intelligent dog I've ever met. I had to give her away because my family and I moved to a 600 sqft apartment and she was going insane, no matter how often or for how long we took her out to the park it was just not enough space for her.

    The police officer who came to pick her up tossed her in the vehicle's trunk like she was garbage that would be dealt with later.

    I'm still heartbroken about it. I thought that the police would provide her with a much better life than I was giving her, and now that I've read this I don't even know what to think
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by Laura Varon View Post

      The police officer who came to pick her up tossed her in the vehicle's trunk like she was garbage that would be dealt with later.
      Technically, that is ILLEGAL! Trunks are dark, not well ventilated, if at all, and may get carbon monoxide! That dog may not even have made it back to the office alive.

      If I were king, I would have the POs handcuffed, thrown in the car with blankets on one side, so they couldn't move much, and leave them in the heat until it got almost too hot. I would then have them serve hazardous duty for NO PAY until the dog was paid off, and THEN treat them like any other person convicted of such a crime. If they wanted to be treated like anyone else, maybe tack a year onto the sentence.

      OH YEAH, they would have to wear a big patch saying "I am a dog molester".

      This is CRAZY!

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    In this day and age there is no excuse for leaving anything live in a car in the heat. When I had the parking/shuttle business in Central City, CO, we used to just break the car window when animals started getting hot. Pissed a lot of people off, but kept a lot of animals safe. Our second summer we put in some posts with shaded areas and water dishes so people didn't need to leave a pet in the car. It was still hot out, but with water and shade the little guys did just fine and we got to quit breaking car windows.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      In this day and age there is no excuse for leaving anything live in a car in the heat. When I had the parking/shuttle business in Central City, CO, we used to just break the car window when animals started getting hot. Pissed a lot of people off, but kept a lot of animals safe. Our second summer we put in some posts with shaded areas and water dishes so people didn't need to leave a pet in the car. It was still hot out, but with water and shade the little guys did just fine and we got to quit breaking car windows.
      WOW, I don't even have the audacity to take people's laundry out after an HOUR delay! 8-(

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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        Our local police will break a car window to get at an animal in distress. It was done twice where I used to work. You don't just stand and watch an animal die.

        The officer is being prosecuted - public outcry demanded it.
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        • Profile picture of the author seasoned
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          Our local police will break a car window to get at an animal in distress. It was done twice where I used to work. You don't just stand and watch an animal die.

          The officer is being prosecuted - public outcry demanded it.
          Yeah, I guess I would eventually also, it just seemed like heysal was almost doing it as soon as the guy drove up. Happily, I haven't seen that yet. And dogs supposedly can't sweat, etc... They are almost like old VW bugs, compared to our being like cars made today. VW bugs ran GREAT, as long as they kept moving, and things didn't get TOO hot. Current engines have water that flows through the block to move heat to a radiator, and a fan dissipates it even when idling. So a person used to driving a newer car may not realize the potential shortcomings of an "air cooled" vehicle.

          BTW I wouldn't just watch an animal die.

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  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    "The police officer who came to pick her up tossed her in the vehicle's trunk like she was garbage that would be dealt with later."

    And you watched him do it! Who is worse?

    As it happens, most police dog handlers live with their dogs and have a very close relationship with them. Unfortunately some forces have their dogs in kennels and available to whichever handler (qualified or not) needs one.

    Accidents do happen and even the young mother who killed her two year old child (nobody commented on that) was only absent minded rather than culpable - her child was so quiet she simply forgot that she hadn't taken him to the nursery school. What ever the law does to her, she will punish herself far more severely.
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