Dogs die when kennel heater malfunctions

[Catherine]

This is such a sad story. Fourteen dogs died at Playful Paws Pet Center when a heater malfunctioned and seriously overheated their room.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=1&at=dt0

The kennel staff are very upset. They came to work on Saturday morning and found all the dogs on the upper floor dead.
It seems that the room was over heating when the staff went home on Friday night. The dogs were uncomfortably hot and the heater problem was not fixed. They just put out some fans.


http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...124&at=dt0

I would question whether they made a serious error of judgement. They knew it was very hot and they were unable to fix the problem. Surely the dogs should have been moved to another part of the building until the problem could be fixed. Perhaps a staff should have been kept on the premises to monitor the situation until something was done.

Nothing can bring back the 14 pets that died. Nothing can change the fact that they died slowly and uncomfortably of heat stress. You trust you pet to someone so you can take a vacation and the last thing you expect is for them to let something like this happen. This is not the first time someone caring for dogs has let them die. Personally I hate taking vacations because I hate leaving my animals.