Ohio K9 Dies due to Hot Car - Page 1

I do not understand how this happens, week after week.


http://www.wlwt.com/news/24620566/detail.html



CINCINNATI -- WLW

A Cincinnati police dog has died after accidentally being left in a hot police cruiser.

The department said Police Specialist Brian Trotta was responding to a family medical emergency on Thursday and inadvertently left his canine, Juno, unattended in the cruiser.

Trotta is a 13-year veteran of the force and a member of the K-9 unit since April 2009. While working as a homicide detective in 2005, Trotta was wounded when a robber fired on him.

Trotta is on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation.

Poor dog. 

where I live the K9s are all in Suburbans with blacked out windows (heat resist tint) and the back windows down 100% of the time (weather permitting) with metal bars over them.  The K9 unit trains right near my house and I see them all the time.

Makes me so sad when I see dogs in Vehicles in the summer and the windows are barely cracked open.  Makes me want to throttle the owner and give them a good kick in the junk.

The officer that has one of my males has a alarm on his car if the temp goes over 75 the windows automatically roll down and 2 fans kick on. A alarm also goes of on his belt(the officers).

Very sad.

Ugly as usual your statements are wrong:


I do not understand how this happens, week after week.

This doesn't happen week after week.  Why don't you get the facts straight before making outlandish statements like this. 

It is very unfortunate for the dog and should not have happened. 

Heart breaking...I have no more words...it hurts too much to fully comprehend.

I can understand how it can happen in such a fast-paced job, but that should be thought out before a tragedy (such as the examples given), not visited later.  Poor dog, not what he deserved for his service.

It might not happen week after week in terms of K9 unit dogs, but I would bet that week after week dogs die in cars because stupid owners leave them in there.  It just doesn't get a lot of press coverage.  In fact I'd bet it would be almost daily some stupid soul takes their dog with them to Walmart (or wherever) and cracks the window 1" for "air circulation", goes in and gets what they need and comes out to a dead or near dead dog.

I do take my dogs with me, often in the warm summer, but I make sure everything valuable is removed from my van and I have heat resist tint and leave my windows down and park in the shade.  Lots of the time we do the dogs run after the kids have TaeKwon Do or something similar (dance, swimming etc...) and since we live 30 minutes drive out of town it's not practical for me to come back out to get the dog(s) so I just bring them with.

People who leave dogs in cars in heat should have to sit in a car, windows up with a fur coat on.

After my trip last year, I learned to bring an extra key at all times.  If I have to leave Drake for any period of time, be it 2 minutes, I leave the AC on, car running, LOCKED.  I do crack the windows about 1" just in case I misplace the key, I can still get in with a stick.  The problem now is the places who will not allow idling cars, but I think that's a ticket I'd risk.

With most of these stories there is very little detail or explanation.
Piss poor reporting, but thats the norm these days in the news media.
Our K-9 units here have caged windows with fans, plus these guys never turn them off (cruiser) and run the air.

No judgment, the guy fucked up, it doesn't say what his emergency was, or what he was driving.
It happens to kids too, not everyday but way too often.

The one problem with us civilians is that a car engine can DIE and you do not know it.

Most pd depts with K9 units have equipped their cars with alarms and other determents that are suppose SUPPOSE to warn or alert officers or anyone in range...

BUT in FORT WORTH   , Tex   two years ago..same thing happened to their K9.   THE officers were eating lunch and the attachment on HIS BELT  did not work...

DOG DIED in the Patrol Car.

I use to have a 94 gmc diesel turbo with the ability to let my dog stay in truck for time if I needed.   BUt i had no alarm to let me know other than to watch my truck every few. minutes which didnt work .]
ALSO  since our K9's are so rambuncious,, a dogs paw on the window button can roll down or unlock  a door.

If a dog rolls down the windows it is an accident and out the window goes the dog to grab someone near the vehicle.. My gmc had no window locks on it...

So needless to say,  was not effecient.

My dogs spent many an hour in my diesel and I was fortunate to not have it die..I knew the running of it but that doesn't guarantee not one minute of fault can make it shut off...

This has been a problem in K9 units all over the usa for years..BUt THE SOLUTION  IS  do not leave a k9 unattended in even a patrol car...Take the dog into the restaurant . If they wont allow a service dog....then eat somewhere else.

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