Anti-animal cruelty CEO's dog dies in hot car
source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-26-anti-animal-cruelty-ceo-dog_N.htm?csp=24&RM_E...
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An executive for an anti-animal cruelty group says her 16-year-old blind and deaf dog died after she accidentally left him in her hot car for four hours.
Robin Starr, the CEO of the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says she didn't realize "Louie" was in the car until noon. Starr's husband, Ed, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch he put the dog in her car as she got ready for work Aug. 19. She often took the dog to work with her.
Robin Starr took the dog to two clinics, but he died of kidney failure.
The National Weather Service says the temperature had reached 91 degrees by noon that day.
The board of the SPCA says it still supports Starr, who has been CEO since 1997 and does not plan to resign. It was unclear whether she would be charged.
Robin Starr, the CEO of the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says she didn't realize "Louie" was in the car until noon. Starr's husband, Ed, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch he put the dog in her car as she got ready for work Aug. 19. She often took the dog to work with her.
Robin Starr took the dog to two clinics, but he died of kidney failure.
The National Weather Service says the temperature had reached 91 degrees by noon that day.
The board of the SPCA says it still supports Starr, who has been CEO since 1997 and does not plan to resign. It was unclear whether she would be charged.
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jubal
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Makes no sense to me, how can you not know your dog was in the car. Just plain stupidity or perhaps as one person suggested, she wanted him to die.
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jubal
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dariusvons
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perfect, a guy like that running such an organization?... there must be profit in there somewhere.
- 2 years ago
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dariusvons
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wayseeker
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Her husband put the dog in the car. She didn't realize it until hours later. It was an accident.
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wayseeker
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interditx
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The dog was blind and deaf, I see she did this intentionally and then had second thoughts.
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interditx
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wayseeker
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I don't think she knew her husband had put the dog in her car.
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wayseeker
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SHAWN_RITTIMAN
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Fail.
- 2 years ago
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SHAWN_RITTIMAN
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hayckuh
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Oh the irony. How can you just forget about your dog being in the car for four hours?
- 2 years ago
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hayckuh
