I've been getting a few "dogs in cars" dispatches lately, normally outside of a restaurant or grocery store. Oddly enough the callers are concerned enough to make it my problem but not concerned enough to wait around for me to respond...
That said, I normally have something more pressing to do and by the time I get there the rascally dog owner has returned to the car and left. Animal control is so thinly spread that getting them to respond is only slightly more likely than the mayor himself coming out with a slim jim and pocket of doggie treats.
I haven't found anything in the IC code that would make this practice illegal, since the cruelty to vertebrate animals requires beating, not just neglect. I figured Animal Control has a neglect ticket or something, but in the event that I did have a poor parched poochie in a parked Pontiac, is there an IC statute to cover this? How do you respond to animal in the car runs (or do you...)?
That said, I normally have something more pressing to do and by the time I get there the rascally dog owner has returned to the car and left. Animal control is so thinly spread that getting them to respond is only slightly more likely than the mayor himself coming out with a slim jim and pocket of doggie treats.
I haven't found anything in the IC code that would make this practice illegal, since the cruelty to vertebrate animals requires beating, not just neglect. I figured Animal Control has a neglect ticket or something, but in the event that I did have a poor parched poochie in a parked Pontiac, is there an IC statute to cover this? How do you respond to animal in the car runs (or do you...)?
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