Leaving dogs in cars is dangerous all year round, even winter, study shows

CorvusCorax said:
You're not really a feral child of dog-owning parents unless you have travelled home in the boot. In fact, just thinking, I got left in the car myself quite a lot as a child. Indeed, my mother will sometimes still get out of the car, lock it and walk off without me.
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Sandwiched between several dogs even when muddy/wet/sandy/stinking, usually sat on top of multiple scrunched up dog beds/blankets at a height that made you realise if you crashed you would probably go straight through the windscreen and die, feet inevitably resting on the dog food buckets in such a way that caused me hip dysplasia but that was ok as all the dogs had enough room. Or travelling loose in the back of Bedford rascal van, no seatbelts, with a dozen or so dogs, usually terriers, charged with stopping them fighting. Ah, childhood in a family were getting bitten by a dog, even badly, was your fault/something you’d done.

Sometimes when I get stressed/worries/anxious about something to do with the current dogs I try and remind myself of growing up (not that many decades ago!) in a much simpler dog related time when dogs barked, occasionally nipped, smelt, shit and moulted and all of these things were generally ok because most/all were trained to do the basics, at least enough to cope in society. Even the nervous ones, had to survive.
 
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