Three barks for Florida, which just has become the second state in the country to make it legal for good people to bust pets out of hot cars. Tennessee was the first state to enforce such a law.
House Bill 131 generally passed both Florida's House and Senate and was signed into law by Governor Rick Scott last week.
The law, which is now in effect, makes people who rescue pets immune from civil liability for damage the vehicle endures in the course of the rescue.
The American Veterinary Medical Association puts the figure at hundreds and gives a warning about how a vehicle can get so hot:
The temperature inside your vehicle can rise almost 20º F in just 10 minutes. In 20 minutes, it can rise almost 30º F…and the longer you wait, the higher it goes. At 60 minutes, the temperature in your vehicle can be more than 40 degrees higher than the outside temperature. Even on a 70-degree day, that’s 110 degrees inside your vehicle!
Lora Dunn, a lawyer with the
Animal Legal Defense Fund, said that she hopes all the other states will Follow Tennessee and Florida's guide.
For people living outside Tennessee or Florida: if you are worried about a pet or a person you noticed left in a vehicle, please call 911.
Being left in a car is extremely dangerous and can be deadly. In this story, you will watch a video that proves this when
a man couldn't handle 8 minutes in a locked car and that proves your dog can't neither.
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Featured image via Greg Walters/Flickr
H/T Good Housekeeping
