As if the multiple stories already in the news this summer of police dogs left in hot cars to die has not been enough there is yet another one to tell you all about. This one more shocking then any of the others put together. An off duty RCMP officer went out fishing and left the police dog in the car for 2 hours. People at the Marina saw the dog and called police. Police opened the vehicle and removed the dog who was unharmed.
Shocked yet or do you want to hear more? Const. Mitch Fiddick of the RCMP said to CBC Canada it was okay to keep the dog in the vehicle in the parked in the sun on a hot day because it had special training. “We work our dogs all the time in these kinds of temperatures — 25 degrees in the summertime. We work the dogs in 35 degrees,” said Fiddick.
Wait a minute I walk my dogs in the middle of the summer in Miami when the temperatures climb that high but I would never leave them in a car for 2 hours for any reason including an emergency. A police officer who should know better no wait the entire police force who should be watching out for these things and educating dog owners about the dangers of doing this think there is nothing wrong with leaving a dog in a hot car for 2 hours while the owner or handler goes out fishing. I think I am missing something here.
The marina owner who called police said the dog was hot and in distress. Why did the police have to be told that leaving a dog in a hot police car for hours is not a good thing and can harm the dog?
I sent a fax into the RCMP station at Colwood, bc (one vancouver island) station saying how disgusted I was and what a load of BS that the dogs are trained for that sort of thing. The RCMP are just once again proving themselves to be immature gun totting self rightgeous bullies and not very smart when speaking to a news reporter and leaving his name. I encourage other people to send in faxes also to voice their concern.
You can google the station for its phone number and fax line.
What a great idea. Thank you for thinking of it. We should have the community do something.
How can one train physiology?
Reminds me of a sad joke:
A Scotsman comes to the bar complaining about his horse: “Got this damn horse and was training him to survive without food. Just when he almost got it, he died. Dumb horse.”
The statement is utter garbage. The dog was hot and distressed. Who cares what conditions they train in outdoors. This dog was in a hot car for 2 hours.
Whether or not a dog is trained to sit in a hot car is beside the point… it still has to be uncomfortable. Maybe he should try sitting in a hot car for a couple of hours. Dumbass.
Agree completely
How about leaving the officer in a car , my interior got up to 140 degree yesterday ! Two wrongs dont make it right . I think dicipliary action should be taken and a charge of cruelty to animals. Maybe the dog will remember him when in Need !
Disciplinary actions need to be taken against the officer. He was off duty the dog should have either been in the boat fishing with him or left home.
This is just horrible.
How is a dog trained not to get hot in a car? I don’t get it.
It is time for the entire RCMP to have a dog safety course. Horrible
I’d like to put these idiots in a hot car for a couple of hours, windows slightly cracked, in the hot sun for a couple of hours and see how THEY like it.
The RCMP have got another black eye, they don’t seem to do much right lately. These officers would press charges against us ordinary citizens if we did what was done here.
I want this officer to be removed from his duties with the dog force, if this is how he treats his animals and feels about them he is not worthy of the job.
I feel very strongly about this, and am even more sad that the dog is only ten months old.
I hope people will write or e-mail the Colwood, Victoria RCMP and make their disgust, about this officer, Const Mitch Fiddick, known.
God I laugh at each and every one of you just waiting until an RCMP Member does something the general populace disapproves of then suggests “we take a dog course” or “fire the person….” Sure the guy pulled a dumb move. Perhaps it was cloudy when he left the truck/vehicle, maybe it was already sunny. Who cares, still a dumb move. Regardless, all of us RCMP Members are HUMANS and make mistakes. I would LOVE to hover over most of the publics generally mundane 9-5 jobs waiting for you to make a mistake on your job then immediately either call the media, take a video on my cell phone or phone your boss crying about how you should have done something different. How about each time you do make a mistake I phone your boss and ask for you to be fired? Sad. Anyway, feel free to phone your neighbour the next time one of you require 911. Perhaps they can find a neighbourhood canine and civilian neighbour skilled in tracking a man that just fled from the back of your home at 2am. Please dont call the RCMP Dog Service. PS: Im fully open to ride alongs here at a lower mainland Detachment on a busy weekend night of General Duty Policing if anyone would like to observe that “We can’t do much right” as the post says above. Sadly I doubt Ill get any takers. J.