Transit Police report arresting two New Yorkers at the Salem commuter-rail parking garage yesterday evening after finding their French bulldog dead of apparent overheating after being left alone in a car for five hours.
Although the air temperature was only 73 or so, Transit Police report:
Studies have shown on an average 75 degree day the temperature inside an enclosed vehicle will raise to 122 degrees in 1 hour.
Nigil the French bulldog was 3 and died in a pool of his own vomit. The two people were taken to Transit Police headquarters in Boston for booking on a charge of animal cruelty.
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5 hours?? This is completely
By RoseMai
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 9:51am
5 hours?? This is completely horrifying... that poor dog. I hope they get the book thrown at them, and that they feel the full weight of this on their consciences for a long time to come.
Anyone who owns a purebred
By anon
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 10:46am
Anyone who [i]owns[/i] a purebred bulldog is already contributing to animal cruelty. If you care about dogs, get a mutt.
Pays for
By Lee
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:19am
Pays for a purebred yes.
Own no. Many are adopted when the ones who pay for them change their look and find the breed/brand that they previously favored now clashes with the new them.
Poor Nigil didn't get so lucky when the novelty of his looks got stale.
Frenchies too?
By Brighton-ite
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 6:17pm
I am aware that Bulldogs (the bigger ones) have been selectively bred to the point of having heads and shoulders that physically can not fit through their mothers' birth canal, resulting in c-sections being required for every litter.
But are French Bulldogs (and for that matter, Boston Terriers aka Boston Bulldogs) also in that category? They seem to be slightly less freakish in build. Big heads but narrower shoulders and smaller overall.
I'd thought that the recent rise in popularity with the French Bulldog breed was due to easier breeding.
How clueless can you get?
By anon
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 10:14am
You don't lock your dog in a car for 5 hours for any reason. Ever.
What a bunch of asshole dipshits - a dog is NOT A TOY.
Goddamn it! What were these
By anon
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 10:21am
Goddamn it! What were these 2 people doing while they left that poor dog to suffer? I'm fucking pissed.
Salem
By LadyKatey
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 2:53pm
Participating in the tasteless tourism that Salem's economy thrives on. Buying fancy witch hats. Going to bullshit "museums." At least they weren't parked in a residential area... though if they were maybe someone would have noticed the poor dog sooner.
Salem museums
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 3:10pm
No kidding.
If I were the Peabody-Essex, I'd seriously consider moving somewhere else just to get away from all the BS.
Awesome museum, by the way; easy commuter rail from Boston and well worth the trip:
https://www.pem.org/
So the Peabody-Essex Museum is in Salem
By roadman
Tue, 10/17/2017 - 12:09pm
And, until it closed, the Salem Pet Store was in Danvers.
No wonder people around here get lost so easily.
Let us not speak, then, of One Kendall Square
By Bob Leponge
Tue, 10/17/2017 - 12:18pm
which is, to my untrained eye, a good 5 blocks from Kendall Square.
Let us not speak, then, of One Kendall Square
By Bob Leponge
Tue, 10/17/2017 - 12:20pm
which is, to my untrained eye, a good 5 blocks from Kendall Square.
Doubt it
By anon
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 4:12pm
The commuter rail lot isn't terribly convenient to the Bullshit Museums or the Bunghole Liquors.
They probably went into Boston.
Commuter rail lot (lot? It's
By LadyKatey
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 7:19pm
Commuter rail lot (lot? It's a garage now?) is a 5 minute walk to the Witch Dungeon Museum, the crappiest of them all!
I really have no problem
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:17am
with the punishment fitting the crime in these cases, particularly when you think of the suffering of a creature that just wanted to love the assholes that killed it.
Agreed
By Hamsterdam
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:54am
I can't even wrap my head around stories like this. It's unfathomably stupid and selfish.
Also sad is that there were probably people who walked by and wondered if they should call someone, but didn't. To anyone who sees something like this, just make the call. Worst case, the owner shows up and yells at you. I was in this situation over the summer and even though it was only 80 outside, when the police responded to my call they said it was something like 96 in the vehicle that had two dogs in the backseat.
I have no problem also
By Brian Riccio
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 12:00pm
admitting that I have smashed two car windows in the past when I thought the dog was distressed, both times I informed law enforcement beforehand and told them I could not wait for assistance and was backed up by them both times. Here and in CA, so never hesitate.
Good on ya!
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 8:31pm
That's awesome.
I called one in once, but they had an officer there within a minute to do the smashing for me. I had two almost full water bottles on my bike and the poor puppers sucked them down in no time flat!
Five hours is too long to trap any dog in a car at any temperature. They could have dropped poor Nigil off at a Petco or other dogcare provider had they only bothered to make plans. :-(
Salem Horror
By anon
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 1:39pm
Glad this pair was arrested just curious to see how long it took the Transit Police to respond to the garage after they were dispatched. Hopefully they responded in minutes in an attempt to rescue the poor dog.
not a garage
By cinnamngrl
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 6:28pm
The car becomes an oven when exposed to sunlight so it is unlikely this was a parking garage.
Yes a garage
By LadyKatey
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 7:24pm
The only parking at the Commuter Rail station in Salem is in the garage.
There’s roof top parking on
By anon
Mon, 10/16/2017 - 8:01pm
There’s roof top parking on that garage as well
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