If people don't understand the ramifications of leaving a pet locked in a hot vehicle, they shouldn't be allowed to have pets.... ever. People who are caught doing it should have to forfeit the pet along with a stiff fine.... Sometimes you just can't fix stupid.

Why does this keep happening in Scarborough? Are people there super dumb/uneducated??? Or lack common sense? I mean, come ON!

So I understand not to ever leave a dog in the car when hot out and as a dog owner it's absolutely terrible hearing about preventable deaths in vehicles.
But I would also like to mention that as an owner of a 10 lb dog, almost all stores (including home depot, ikea, Walmart, most shopping malls, Vaughan Mills bass pro shop, etc.) one is NOT allowed to carry in a small 10 lb dog into these stores. This is very frustrating as recently on my way up to the cottage I needed to quickly pick up an item from home depot and it was +29C outside. I asked the store clerk if I could quickly run in with her (carrying her in my arms) to pick up light bulbs and I was turned away. They told me that due to a law suit some lady filed in a home depot store as she touched a dog and was bitten, (mind you she should have asked the dog owners permission before touching a strange pet), that due to her lawsuit all home depot stores have banned dogs from entering the stores.
How crazy is this world? Can one no longer travel with a pet? What if your on the road and have to use the bathroom and have the dog with you? What a stupid world we live in. I told an ikea worker after I was not allowed to bring my dog in there, that they allow kids in the stores when kids are often worse behaved then dogs.