NSW Police Dogs Found Dead in Police Vehicle

[Deeds]

https://www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-police-dogs-xtra-and-soldier-found-dead-in-police-vehicle-investigation-launched/9505abea-90ee-4813-bdc2-f7d16d7cc87c

[sandgrubber]

Tragic, but story lacks information.  Like...air conditioned van...was aircon turned on?  When we're dogs checked on?  

[Redsonic]

The ABC has a bit more information. Speculation, but sounds like the air conditioner failed.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-01/nsw-police-dogs-dead-investigation-south-sydney/104547476

[Deeds]

ABC didn't have it when i posted.  Apparently it was the air con pod that failed with a technical fault.  Poor bloody dogs!

[tdierikx]

And this is why no dog should ever be left inside a vehicle... even with the air conditioning left on.

 

When I was a vet nursing student, we had a dog brought in that had been left in a car with the air-con on, but the dog had somehow managed to bump the control on the console and switched it from cooling to heating... in summer in Sydney. We could not revive the dog. And the worst part was that the RSPCA had been alerted to the dog being in distress, but had refused to attend... and by the time the police got there soon after, the dog was already too far gone to save. The police told us to NOT engage with RSPCA if they came wanting to prosecute the owner after the fact - the police were going to do that and they were not going to do any deals for any lesser charge where the owner would get off with a slap on the wrist - he was going to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law by police. RSPCA did come to our clinic and were quite threatening to us, demanding we hand them the dog's body and all records relating to it's injuries, and we had to call the police to come and tell them to back the heck off.

 

Fly free with the angels PD Xtra and DD Soldier... hopefully your deaths will result in much better processes to be put in place so this never happens again.

 

T.

[persephone]

4 hours ago, tdierikx said:

Fly free with the angels PD Xtra and DD Soldier... hopefully your deaths will result in much better processes to be put in place so this never happens again

Yes - tragedy   The new technology failed.

[JessicaLawrence]

On 01/11/2024 at 11:11 PM, tdierikx said:

And this is why no dog should ever be left inside a vehicle... even with the air conditioning left on.

 

When I was a vet nursing student, we had a dog brought in that had been left in a car with the air-con on, but the dog had somehow managed to bump the control on the console and switched it from cooling to heating... in summer in Sydney. We could not revive the dog. And the worst part was that the RSPCA had been alerted to the dog being in distress, but had refused to attend... and by the time the police got there soon after, the dog was already too far gone to save. The police told us to NOT engage with RSPCA if they came wanting to prosecute the owner after the fact - the police were going to do that and they were not going to do any deals for any lesser charge where the owner would get off with a slap on the wrist - he was going to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law by police. RSPCA did come to our clinic and were quite threatening to us, demanding we hand them the dog's body and all records relating to it's injuries, and we had to call the police to come and tell them to back the heck off.

 

Fly free with the angels PD Xtra and DD Soldier... hopefully your deaths will result in much better processes to be put in place so this never happens again.

 

T.

I agree with you. 

[Little Gifts]

I can't even read a story like that. The worst death ever for an animal I think. I can still  remember a story from years back about someone who went on a cruise and left a dog in their car. I used to work at the theatre with a guy who regularly did that with his small dogs. It used to make me feel sick. I can understand about police dogs needing to be in a vehicle for periods of time but this is just a sad reminder that things can and do go wrong and regular onsite monitoring needs to be in place for them. Their handlers will be devastated.

[Mairead]

If a dog is left in a car in a carpark there are usually some people who are willing to smash a window but also people who know how to break in.

[asal]

There are also some so proactive they call the police even when the owners are in the car with the dogs and all windows down. 

Pity no one spotted them

[Mairead]

Asal, they were at a training course at Lucas Heights which is where the nuclear reactor is, so not a public area? And workers there probably have to decontaminate after shift so not too many people outside? The surrounds with the houses used to have the same suburb name but is now called Barden Ridge.