We called the cops on someone who did this, with a new baby, all of the windows down, while they trooped into the store with their five other children, all of whom could walk on their own, so presumably that's why baby couldn't go in?! Good thing my ex was with me, or I would have TAKEN her out, then to the cops and probably been in trouble for kidnapping.

Anyway, I have postcards which are printed up with info about why folks shouldn't leave their pets in cars, let alone their children, some which includes:

Opening the window will not make enough ventilation in the car to cool your pet.

On a 90° day, your car can reach 160° in a few short minutes.

Your pet does not sweat. The pet must pant to cool down. The combination of heat-stress and hyperventilation means brain damage and death for the pet within 15 to 20 minutes.

I don't understand that dad in Ohio. I think people are in too much of a hurry, too stressed, and losing it BUT, I still don't consider any of those as any kind of excuse! Plus our society encourages us to be even more so, totally passing by the values of time with your family, good parenting, living a life of balance. The government is no kind of help or example, either.