Leaving dogs unattended in van

Rowena - thanks for your intervention in this matter and for your prompt reply to my email - much appreciated.

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As I drove out this afternoon, car saying and remained at 31c, woman dressed in skimpy dress and flip flops leaving the park with a cooker spaniel on a lead. Wonder how she'd have liked walking on the black tarmac Road and pavement barefoot 🤐😤🤐🤐😡

Cooker spaniel indeed😉 Its one of those things a lot of folks forget, just how hot roads and pavements can get. Our lad has had nothing but shady woodland walks these last few days. And a watering can over him to help keep him cool. He’s laid out panting in a draught inside house at moment, hasn’t wanted to venture far at all on his walks. We used to do river and canal walks, but he’s rather wary now because of his eye sight issues. 

I was "moaned at when taking Rosa to the off site dog walk ,as I tried to keep her on the grass instead of her walking on the tarmac road, as I passed "to close" to another caravan, there was no other comment when I explained why, and also when we retuned the same way

Cooker spaniel that'll be the jolly old auto correct 🤣🤣🤣. Mind you pretty apt in the circumstances!

Our dog has been driven to  local estate, we got a spot in the full shade to park 🙂 for a cool-ish walk through the woods, felt cool when we started off 0730 but not as cool on our return an hour later. Just as we were walking out runner coming opposite way, one of son's groomsmen - he'd run from home and was off on 16k target run  today. He's the one that cycled to visit son and family for a couple of hours a few weeks ago - a good run takes 1 hour 20 minutes on the "big" roads. Sooner planes start flying again sooner he'll be more normal 🤣🤣. Said he has 2 flights this month, he's safety pilot on one, just incase anything goes wrong 😱

Dog and OH have just had a trip round the small block whilst I ran the vac around. It's getting very humid and heavy here again. Was hoping for a cooler night but fear it may not be 🥵🥵🥵

With the heat we are having , I would say a caravan is not the best place to leave a dog , even if the blinds are down etc , a caravan in the sun gets extremely hot ! ( Unless you have Aircon ) . On the other hand ....you don't want to take a dog for a walk in 30c heat either ..And no ice cubes 

We sold our caravan when the kids got a bit older and set off to see the world which only lasted a few years as the son arrived home with a dog as the man of the house I said no dogs! Anyway while out driving a couple of weeks later the wife pulled up at a caravan dealers "for a look round" the next thing were are sat in the office signing forms and passing over money as I was told it would be nice for the two of us and the dog we now own to go away in. The dog is now 17 years old and is still is first into the car when we go away and he and our other dog are never left alone in the van if we can help it.

Police forced entry to a motorhome in a Truro car park a few days ago to let out a dog left inside for over three hours -  even though the motorhome was in the shade with windows open.

proactive Policing, great to see. I do hope they follow it thru with further action👍🏻