# Dogs shut in car in parking lot. Need answer fast.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs-shut-in-car-in-parking-lot-need-answer-fast/581646>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 12, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs-shut-in-car-in-parking-lot-need-answer-fast/581646 "2011-05-12T13:09:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 88

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs-shut-in-car-in-parking-lot-need-answer-fast/581646/88 "2011-05-13T03:12:35Z")

</div>

Sort of relevant is this Pulitzer Prize-winning [article](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html) that ran in the Washington Post a couple of years ago about parents who forgot their children in overheated cars.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs-shut-in-car-in-parking-lot-need-answer-fast/581646)._