Pets In Hot, Closed Cars Suffer, So Keep Them At Home: Sheriff

PETALUMA - The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office wants to remind drivers in the county of how hot the inside of your car can get, and how that heat can quickly affect animals left inside.

The Sheriff's office says leave the animals at home.

Here's the Sonoma County Sheriff's Facebook appeal:

With the HOT weather upon us, it's important to remember to keep your pets at home! According to the Humane Society of the United States, when it is 80 degrees fahrenheit outside, the inside of a car can rise up to 99 degrees fahrenheit within only 10 minutes! So that means your ten minutes in the cool grocery store to grab your milk means a painful, sweltering, and possibly deadly situation for a dog left in a car.

-image via Harris County, Texas Sheriff's Office