When I was a child some 51 years ago,aged 8, I was regularly left in a car for 45 minutes or even more.
I realise the world was a safer place then, and that I wasnt locked in, and that the temperature wasnt hot, so circumstances were slightly different.
but isnt that what we should all be taking into consideration, before making decisions, circumstances.
it is very different a child being left for one minute or even five minutes if the weather is not very hot, than if it is, the same would apply to animals.