I set an alarm on my watch, so I know when it’s been 5 minutes, I don’t take calls on my phone when I’m doing something, and there won’t be an exhaust leak, but yeah, maybe even with everything else, I shouldn’t do it when it’s over 100, even if I can park in the shade…
No need to deal with the dog. Open the door, coax the dog out. Steal car.
not this dog
I often nap at these times.
She worries someone is gonna knock me in the head and kick me to the curb before driving off. She says “keep the doors locked” Everytime.
And EV or hybrid can run for several hours with the AC on and people would have to be pathetically ignorant at this point not to know that. As someone showed upthread, Teslas have a “dog mode” and the screen says what the temp is in giant letters.
My dog loves to ride in the car. If going to the vet he is so happy to be somewhere we have to secure him. Holding the leash and saying, “sit, stay” a few times. The door comes open and he will dive out. He’s immediately not so happy when realizes it the vets office. Any other place he would jump and run to see what he can sniff.
Yeah, don’t count on that.
@RivkahChaya, can you explain why you have to bring the dog in the car? With simple work arounds, I can see doing it without needing to go in somewhere. Avoiding the whole problem.
Not mine either. He loves to meet people on his walk. Waits for me to say “OK” and then goes up for a pat.
If someone tried to get him out of the car, instead of “open the door, coax dog out, steal car”, it would go more like “open the door, see dog with teeth bared and hackles up, try to coax dog out, put hand in car, remove bloody hand.”
My worry since I drive a manual (tentatively plan to get a lab next year but these heat waves give me pause) is that he’ll move around and pop the parking brake and the car will roll away and hit something. I did do that the OP did years ago with my first lab-came back and he was in the passenger seat foot well all curled up and content with the lower blower blasting air on him.
For me, I bring 1-3 dogs to work with me everyday. One benefit of being self employed. If I leave work from home, then remember I need an eggplant for dinner, it’s far more efficient to hit the grocery store on my way home than to take the dogs home and venture out again.
A rare event, but it has happened a few times.
There was a time when my gf and I were arguing over our dog’s weights. Money was wagered. We took the two dogs in question to the vet for weigh-ins, which they encourage & are free.
My gf is all about training, so she repeatedly treated the dogs while they were being weighed.
I won the wager. But we continued weigh-ins once a month for about a year. They absolutely LOVE going to the vets.
Obviously a fellow Jeep Owner. 
AKA Jeep Victim.
Respectfully, we’re not there yet. Might be closer to common knowledge in, say, California than in Mississippi. But around here, electric cars and hybrids are only just past the novelty stage. Locally, I’d estimate that maybe one in every 30-50 cars on the roads are electric or hybrids.
Fair point
My dog goes to work with me, and every so often I need to run in to Publix or Aldi for milk or something. Not a full shop, literally just one or two things**. I always find a shady spot and leave the rear windows wide open. Hazel normally just flops down to sleep, she loves the car.
But I still worry that someone will see a dog in a car and flip out, even though the windows are open enough that she could get herself out of there if she needed to.
**And to combine contentious topics, I always use self scan lanes 
It’s faster!
My thought exactly. Granted, my dog hates going anywhere in the car, but even when we had dogs who liked to ride, unless we were going to the vet, the groomer, or to visit someone who asked that we bring the dog, our canines stayed home. I never understood the point of taking pets on errands.
Dogs like to run with the pack.
From a training viewpoint, it provides enrichment as well as socialization opportunities. When my gf goes to the feed-store, she brings Kizzy. The workers love interacting with her and she enjoys “doing her tricks”.
If my gf has other obligations and I’m tasked with going to the feed-store, they are disappointed when they realize I am dog-less.
This was actually one of the factors in our decision to by a Tesla Model X. And, it hasn’t disappointed. We use it frequently.
Same on all points. It is a great feature. We might be getting to warmer weather within the next couple of weeks and will get to really try it out. I expect I will still look for shaded spots when possible.
Electric vehicles like the Tesla with “dog mode” discussed above aren’t exactly “running”. The AC will operate to keep the pet cool, but otherwise are essentially off, and I would assume can’t actually be driven if you don’t have the key.