My DH saved a GR in a hot car!!! Get your tissue's out for the ending!

[Denise & Hunter!!!]

We were walking into Wal Ghetto Mart yesterday morning (a store I have to be dragged into) and there was a golden retriever locked in a car with no windows down, in the sun! Of course I immediately freaked out.  Fortunately, my DH is a Police Chief (but not for the village the Wal Mart was in) so he knew what to do immediately.  It was parked about 5 cars away from us so he turned around, went back to his truck, got his big bag of police goods for getting into locked cars and came back to get the doors opened.  It turned out the locks on the car were broke and it wasn't letting him in as quick as he wanted to so the dog wouldn't be in even more danger.  He got out the hammer thing they use to break car windows in an emergency and broke the window to get the dog out.  We got her out of the car (mind you this took him about 3 minutes total if that - he was fast - and still no one was coming back to the car).  She was about 5-6 months old it appeared.  So he called the Sheriff's Department instead of the local police department because they are generally less tolerant and he has a working relationship with them.

The Deputy Sheriff got there about 10 minutes after he called - still no one came out of Wal Mart to the car! They ran the license plates and it came back to driver with a suspended license.  Finally, after the deputy had called to get the car towed this idiot couple came out of Wal Mart to the car.  Of course they started yapping that my DH had "destroyed their property" blah blah blah - same junk everyone breaking the law has to say.  It ended up that neither of them had a valid drivers license, she had marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her purse and the guy had a FELONY warrant for his arrest!  Neither of them EVER asked if the poor little thing was ok!  They are charging them with endangering the welfare of an animal along with the drug charge and the suspended license.  The guy was going to jail regardless because of the felony warrant now he will have new charges to :-)

By this time 3 other Deputies had come for back up and it ended up that one of them had lost his golden retriever last year and had wanted another one.  He said he had been going to the shelter's for the last couple of months looking for one that "spoke to him".  He turned to absolute MUSH when I took her out of our car (I had her in there with the AC on and a bowl of water that I carry for Hunter).  He said "I finally found you, you are who I have been waiting for" and she just started licking his face and nozzling in his neck.  It was the sweetest thing and he was a big, burly probably 6' 3"+ 300lb man in his late 40's that could have picked up that couple and snapped them like twigs!  I was all teary eyed over it and I could tell it got to all the deputies and my DH to because they were either looking away or putting their sunglasses on!  I called him just a few minutes ago to see how she was and he had taken her to the vet and named her Mercy :-) He said he is on vacation for the next two weeks starting Wednesday but decided to start his vacation two days early so he wouldn't have to leave her.

I was just infuriated at that couple for putting her in absolute life or death danger but things like this always make me believe that everything happens for a reason and what is meant to be will be :-)

[Lynn D.]

How wonderful! And thank you to you and your husband for saving the pup!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Good thing your DH and you were there. It was meant to be :) So glad this dog has found a better home.

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

Wow - this was an amazing thing to do!!  So happy your husband was there with you and you didn't have to decide this for yourself.  How can a human be that stupid?  I think I would have called the police and waited for them because what if these nasty people came out and they sound so sketchy that they could assault someone.  Also what would happen if the dog was not socialized and bit you?  I'm just saying for us non police chief folks - I'd proceed with caution on the actual window breaking.  Of course if it looks like the dog was dying - all bets are off and I'd take whatever came with it.

[Denise & Hunter!!!]

You know Jane, I don't know - great question!! LOL  I am thinking if it had been a dog that made my DH weary he would have probably done something different somehow.  He carry's this huge black bag in his car and it has everything it seems like he would ever need from extra Taser cartridges to Kevlar sleeves.  I am going to ask him what he would have done if it was a mean dog......  He always says there is no dog that is as dangerous as a person....  I wonder what the level of truth is to that?  

[Traci -Bexter & Maggie]

OMD!  This is the BEST STORY EVER!  This could be a movie scene!  What sweet justice for all involved!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the name (although Justice would have been cool & appropriate also)!  Tell that officer congratulations and tell your husband he is a true HERO!

[Barbara B., Sasha & Oliver]

Wow... awesome story.  I don't understand how anyone can leave a dog/puppy in a car on a hot sunny day like that - I guess it just boils down to pure stupidity !!!!  You and your DH were awesome in getting this poor puppy to a safe place and home.  I would do the exact same thing if I ever saw a animal in a car like that !!!!   Kudos to you and your hubby !!!!

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

This is such a truly happy ending.  I'm so happy that Mercy now has a great future.  Great job!

[Colleen, Jake & Baxter]

I avoided reading this post because I see and hear of so many pets and kids left in hot cars.  Please thank your husband and everyone else including yourself for stepping out to help this dog.  You and your husband were meant to be there at that time to help this GR.  I am so happy about where he is now:<)

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

Awesome! So happy that she will have a real home now, thank you for saving her!! I HATE seeing dogs in cars.

[T. Byrne]

Oh, that is so sweet! Your DH is amazing!

I can't understand people who leave their dogs in the car like that!