Summer heat can have a negative effect on your dog.
Officials with Bozeman Animal Control say they’re now getting an average of three calls a day about dogs being left in hot vehicles, which is fewer than last year.
Leaving your dog in a car without the air conditioning on could be considered animal cruelty or animal neglect under city ordinance.
An outside temperature of 70 degrees can reach 90 degrees in a car in just 15 minutes.
While rolling down the windows can help some, it’s simply not enough.
“We have a great little thermometer, infrared thermometer that we can read the inside of the surface temperature of your car and get a guess about what the temperature is,” Bozeman Animal Control Officer Selena Fowler said. “Anything over ninety degrees inside your vehicle, dogs actually start to have difficulty, being that they don’t sweat.”
Best advice from Animal Control: leave your four-legged friends at home during the dog days of summer.
Story by Gaby Krevat, MTN News
