{"id":194236,"date":"2021-06-05T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=86051e58a2e853e2faf53908f2959244"},"modified":"2021-06-05T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T21:08:13","slug":"urgent-peta-warns-that-dogs-may-die-in-extreme-heat-wave-in-bismarck-vital-tips-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/05\/urgent-peta-warns-that-dogs-may-die-in-extreme-heat-wave-in-bismarck-vital-tips-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent: PETA Warns That Dogs May Die in Extreme Heat Wave in Bismarck\u2014Vital Tips Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"995042\"\/><p>This week\u2019s scorching temperatures\u2014reaching triple digits in Bismarck\u2014will put dogs at high risk of heat prostration and death, so PETA is issuing an urgent warning to anyone with a dog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Touch the pavement to ensure that it won\u2019t burn dogs\u2019 foot pads.<\/li>\n<li>Be alert to a long, curled-up tongue and heavy panting, as dogs cannot sweat as humans can and heat builds up inside their bodies.<\/li>\n<li>Walk only in the shade, on earth or grass, and\u202f<em>never<\/em> leave animals outdoors in extreme heat or inside vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just last week, PETA fieldworkers discovered the body of a dog who had died after being left chained up in the hot sun, and similar reports nationwide are starting to roll in. Recently, a law-enforcement officer mistakenly left his patrol car with a dog inside it, and the K-9 succumbed to heat prostration and died. Last year, more than 31 dogs were reported dead from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/features\/dogs-and-other-companion-animals-suffer-heat-related-deaths\/\"><strong>heat-related causes<\/strong><\/a>. (Figures are far higher, as most go unreported.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyone who leaves animals outside to suffer in severe weather <\/strong><strong>may be\u202fprosecuted for cruelty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;\">PETA<span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to abuse in any way\u201d\u2014opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. <span style=\"background: white;\">For more information, please visit\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><b><span style=\"color: #0563c1; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">PETA.org<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span style=\"color: black; background: white;\">\u202for follow the group on\u202f<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peta\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><b><span style=\"color: #0563c1; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Twitter<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span style=\"color: black; background: white;\">, \u202f<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/official.peta\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><b><span style=\"color: #0563c1; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Facebook<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span style=\"color: black; background: white;\">, or\u202f<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/peta\/?hl=en\"  rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><b><span style=\"color: #0563c1; background: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Instagram<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span style=\"color: black; background: white;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/media\/news-releases\/urgent-peta-warns-that-dogs-may-die-in-extreme-heat-wave-in-bismarck-vital-tips-here\/\">Urgent: PETA Warns That Dogs May Die in Extreme Heat Wave in Bismarck\u2014Vital Tips Here<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/\">PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/media\/news-releases\/urgent-peta-warns-that-dogs-may-die-in-extreme-heat-wave-in-bismarck-vital-tips-here\/\">Blog \u2013 PETA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s scorching temperatures\u2014reaching triple digits in Bismarck\u2014will put dogs at high risk of heat prostration and death, so PETA is issuing an urgent warning to anyone with a dog: Touch the pavement to ensure that it won\u2019t burn dogs\u2019 foot pads. Be alert to a long, curled-up tongue and heavy panting, as dogs cannot<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/media\/news-releases\/urgent-peta-warns-that-dogs-may-die-in-extreme-heat-wave-in-bismarck-vital-tips-here\/\" title=\"ReadUrgent: PETA Warns That Dogs May Die in Extreme Heat Wave in Bismarck\u2014Vital Tips Here\">&#8230; Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/media\/news-releases\/urgent-peta-warns-that-dogs-may-die-in-extreme-heat-wave-in-bismarck-vital-tips-here\/\">Urgent: PETA Warns That Dogs May Die in Extreme Heat Wave in Bismarck\u2014Vital Tips Here<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/\">PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2147],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194237,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194236\/revisions\/194237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}