Stoga grad sounds alarm on dog treats that choked and killed her puppy.
I used to buy these treats. No more if the company can’t consider a shape change.
Photo from original savvymainline post. Please read entire post.
This is August. So cars heat up fast, don’t they? Especially in parking lots open to the sun, right? And as you see that is a dog in a hot SUV earlier today. It was taken by a friend at the Redner’s parking lot in Phoenixville. These people who own this Ford SUV should be ashamed of themselves!!!
I wish the people who sent me the photos had taken photos with the license plate showing! This photo and the one below came with the following message:
We went shopping at Phoenixville Redner’s today. I waited in the car while the wife got a few things.
Some jerk left a poodle in a parked car. Driver window was open a couple inches, but the dog was frantic at first, then just laying on the seat panting like hell.
A local cop came through, and I got his attention. He looked, and said “the window is open a little, and it’s a white car, it won’t get hot, besides this is private property, I have no jurisdiction”. The windows were heavily tinted, and too hot to put your hand on.
I was about to break the glass when a young couple (about 6 people gathered by now) said they would go inside and have the manager put the vehicle, license plate, and business name on the P.A. system that their window was about to be broken. A volunteer firefighter had a rescue tool, and said he would give them 5 minutes. A girl with a water bottle squirted water through the cracked window on the dog, and it got up, and got a little.
Don’t know the final outcome. Even through the heavily tinted glass you can see the dog with it’s mouth wide open.
So Redner’s in Phoenixville is in which township? I would like to commend their officer who stopped for showing such caring and concern, wouldn’t you? Do you sense my sarcasm ? If the officer was loath to break a window why couldn’t said officer have gone into the store to check for the irresponsible owner? Wow.
Kudos goes to the volunteer firefighter and others who sprang into action to try to help the dog.
Dogs give us unconditional love and devotion so it is really upsetting when you see stupid human tricks in action.
There is a law being proposed in PA regarding keeping pets out of hot cars. Contact your legislators in PA ASAP about getting it passed!
New bill focused on keeping pets out of hot cars
Carolyn Blackburne 08/05/2015 06:54 PM08/05/2015 07:29 PM
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — A new bill proposed in the Pennsylvania legislature is focused on keeping animals out of hot cars.
Farm manager at Greener Pasture’s Animal Shelter, Ryan Jacobs, said leaving a pet inside a car on a hot day can be a matter of life and death. Cats and dogs that are left in cars can die within five to ten minutes on days above 110 degrees.
“We already have laws like this for children, so I think it is important you take your dog out of the car when you go somewhere,” Jacobs said.
If an animal is left unattended in a car for more than five minutes, it can go into heat stroke.
UPDATE: the power of the Internet. Another person sent me a partial plate (missing one letter or digit) and told me that this shopping center is on the edge of Phoenixville Borough and apparently it was an unmarked police car and three police departments can be found on patrol around here (Phoenixville Borough, East Pikeland, and Schulkill Twp). And the static decal in the window is for a company called Unlimited Restoration which has an office in Pottstown.
Check out this great event coming up in April at McKenzie’s in Malvern to benefit PALs
I see the news is making the social media rounds so…..
Sad news to share. My friend Sherry just called and one of our favorite fur pals has gone over the rainbow bridge. Oogy.
Yes, that Oogy.
His humans were friends of Sherry’s so I was lucky to see Oogy at a lot of First Friday Main Lines. He would come and hang out in Sherry’s store, Past*Present*Future in Ardmore, PA.
Before he was a doglebrity, he was just a big lovable dog with really nice humans. And an amazing story.
If you ever need a reason as to why animal rescue is so important, look no further then Oogy. The photos I am sharing are ones I took of Oogy at different First Friday Main Lines.
Oogy you were a big love of a dog and I am glad on a few occasions I got to hang out with you
RIP Oogy.
Ah yes, Penelope the young doe is back….and yes, she allows me to be this close. She had a salad today , though, so she and I had words….of course, she just looked at me as if to say “Hostas, it’s what deer eat.”
Bill Smith with Main Line Animal Rescue alum Lily the therapy dog. Taken at a Main Line Animal Rescue event today.
The baby birds have hatched! Here is a photo of one! (Sign me ridiculously excited)
I didn’t want to say anything, but I feel I must. I am NOT getting involved with the whole brew-ha-ha over Flash the beagle. Please STOP posting comments about THAT issue to my blog and the CCR Facebook page.
This is my blog and my page and I reserve the right to NOT be involved with every animal issue in the tri-state area. I am taking a break from dog rescue issues. I am tired of all the extremes of emotion and how nasty human beings are to one and other under the banner of saving animals.
I am sorry if that disappoints some of my readers, but please respect that I don’t want to be involved. Yes, that family is connecting all the dots when it comes to guerrilla social media tactics, but what is it they hope to accomplish by totally destroying a non-profit? And can it be said it is all well an good to say publicly on their page that they want people to be respectful but what happens out of the eyes of social media is different isn’t it?
Some might find this confusing, but let me make it simple: yes I have written about the Chester County SPCA’s issues a few times. However, I have never said I want the organization shut down and would not support such efforts. What I want for the CCSPCA is reform. I am hopeful with Pat Biswanger at the helm of their board it will happen.
I am not going to speak negatively of Main Line Animal Rescue. I am not going to speak negatively of Bill Smith. He has devoted his life to animals. I am NOT getting involved other than to say destroying a non-profit with a proven track record of saving at risk animals is wrong. Attacking people who chose to support this rescue is as wrong as attacking those who support rescues like the Chester County SPCA, Morris Animal Rescue, the Humane Society, the ASPCA, North Shore Animal League, Finding Shelter, ARC of the Hamptons and all the smaller pure-breed and cat rescues that work hard every day for animals.
I urge everyone involved here to calm down and try to work it out because big picture is if you support animal rescues and their missions you will try to work it out.
But I do not care to be a party to this negativity. I believe in animal rescue. Asking for reforms is one thing, destroying a good organization is entirely another. They are out for scorched earth, and that makes it about them, not the animals….even the dog they are protesting the removal of.
Thank you