What the...?!: Dog dies in hot car while "Idol" hopeful auditions

The woman and her boyfriend left the terrier in the car with the windows rolled up. The guy was supposed to check on the dog periodically while his girlfriend waited in line to audition for "American Idol." Idiots. (Denver Post)

Comments

[Torgo]

At least he gave his life for a noble and just cause.

[Sheila]

Who doesn't know by now that neither humans nor animals can be left in a closed vehicle in hot weather? Poor dog.

[Sisterblonde]

I say lock 'em both in the closed car for a couple of hours.... and then check on them around 2pm.

[sometimesilie]

Ahh. The "American Idle"...I am sure these two Rhodes Scholars will more than make up for it by a long life of meritorious service to there community. It must be some darwinistic impulse that makes me want to attack these two imbeciles, to weed them out of our herd. I suppose it was incidental that it was "just" a dog and not the next generation.

[Sigh]

If I had come back to find her dog dead in a car that I was supposed to be checking, I think she would have learned that the dog must have escaped, and we should put up some posters around town.

[you know me by now]

Did she make it on the show?

[EV]

@Sigh -- you're on to something. First I'd beat myself in the head for being dumb enough to leave anything alive in a vehicle. Then I'd break one of the windows on the car. 'Fluffy was so cute that someone STOLE him! They broke my window to get to him, they wanted him so bad!'

Sure, I'd have to pay for the window, but that's a well spent couple hundred bucks.

[nauip]

I'm with SisterBlonde on this one. Treat 'em like they treat their dog.

[thing1]

I left my dead dog in a hot car back in 78, then we all went and ate ice cream.

[MONKEY JERKm]

WHY DO YOU TAKE YOUR DOG ANYWAY?

[twerp]

What is with people taking their dogs everywhere?

I hope these people don't breed other people.

[kevy]

Sigh and EV, it was his dog, not hers.

[kevy]

Things like this really burn me up. If you're not responsible enough to take proper care of a pet, don't get one. If you get one and are not responsible enough to take proper care of it, don't get another one, ever.

[buddy]

hot dogs! get your hot dogs here!!

[a little Dick Tater]

These people were just doing what any conscientious people would do by eliminating one more worthless stinking canine from this world. They should be given a medal and additional canines to leave in the car. Regular readers here will know that for a long time I've advocated for the necessity of a world wide canine virus to kill off this canine plague and the idiots who let dogs lick them in their face after they've just licked their genitals. Disgusting.

[sometimesilie]

I don't know why I never noticed it before, but Dick Tater ='s Dictator. Am I the only one that didn't get that?

[Pet Sitter in Orland Park]

How very tragic. I agree with several others here - why in the world did they take the dog with them? What is wrong with people.

[outofsalt]

How can anyone, *anyone*, be this clueless in this day and age?

Also, this must be a really horrible way to die, whether you're a baby or a dog.

[ReginaFilangee]

Yes, sometimesilie, you're the only one that never noticed that before. Ketchup. ;)

[kevy]

sometimesilie, I'm disappointed.

[goofs off at work]

please, please, please....do NOT let this pair reproduce.

[ellen]

1.) A Little Dick Tater sounds like A Little Dick, in more than one sense of the term;

2.)IMO anyone who wastes their time auditioning for 'American Midol' the better to inflict their complete paucity of talent on the rest of the nation should not be allowed to breed, own pets,or for that matter, continue to keep breathing without the aid of machinery as far as I'm concerned, as they're nothing more than a flesh-waste who needs to be removed from the vale of tears as quickly as possible.

A prayer for the dog, and all the other helpless victims of idiots here and around the globe. 'Nuff said.

[sometimesilie]

Sorry, kevy and Regina, I know, it was like a crack of lightening...but in my defense I always considered his name;

Dick: Dick
Tater: Tater Tot

so I always thought of him as Tater Tot Dick in my mind...

[sometimesilie]

and I know I'm in the minority on this opinion, but I miss Dick Tater. He used to make me laugh...

[RockyMtnMac]

While all of you are hacking at STIL for misreading a moniker, it was not that long ago most of you guys misread his moniker, too.
So ease up a little.
Honest mistake.

[Navy Chief]

@SIL - Actually, I'm with you. I just thought he was some kind of potato.

@ALL - What's with sTil? Since when is 'sometimes' two words (in that context)? I'm prepared to stand corrected.

[RockyMtnMac]

@Navy Chief - Everyone was calling him STS for "Some Times Silly" or something like that. After the "Sometimes I Lie" revelation, everyone was already using the "T" in the abbreviation and it just stuck. I see the "SIL" reference once in awhile. I do remember Lynn and someone else asking about, it to clear up the confusion one time.

[Betty]

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Betty

http://smallpet.info