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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums85 degrees here in Denver, just saw a dog in the back of a truck with a black rhino
bed coating (the kind they spray on)
he looked very uncomfortable but his owner probably didn't notice thru the ac and tinting
and the empty seat next to him
some people should not be allowed to own dogs
guardian
(2,282 posts)always calls dogs in the back of a pickup truck a "future patient".
Slammer
(714 posts)...I thought this was going to be about the excessive heat causing hallucinations.
a la izquierda
(11,802 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Slammer
(714 posts)...but when I was a kid (many years ago), our dog loved riding in the back of the truck and so did I. The truck didn't have air conditioning and summer temps were quite often over 110 degrees plus high humidity due to, among other things, flooded rice fields which surrounded us. Of course, I had no idea how dangerous it was to ride like that.
The dog you saw was probably more comfortable with his pads on that bedliner at 85 degrees than my dog was on a metal surface at 114 degrees. And my dog begged to get into the *back* of the truck regardless of the temperature. Yeah, the owner was probably just being a jerk but it possibly could be that he let the dog do exactly what the dog wanted to do.
Demonaut
(8,937 posts)not a plastic liner, my experience with that bed surface is that it gets much hotter than ambient temp
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Is illegal in Cali - a reasonable law that should be every where.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)There's nothing requiring them to be inside the vehicle, and of course it gets a lot hotter than 85 here.
I still see a ton of dogs in truck beds, and if they're tied down at all it's usually done so badly they might as well not be.