This week, the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) and Herb Chambers welcomed members of the media to ARL’s Dedham Campus for a scorching automobile demonstration as a part of ARL’s annual Too Sizzling for Spot® security marketing campaign, which has educated pet homeowners about summer season security for a decade.
Herb Chambers is the latest neighborhood companion to affix ARL in spreading this necessary summery pet security message, and ARL continues to be grateful to the New England Revolution, Massachusetts State Police and Massachusetts Division of Transportation for his or her ongoing assist.
ARL is thrilled to have the well-known automobile magnate and animal-lover lend his voice to focus on the significance of protecting our pets protected when the mercury rises.
Moreover, various Herb Chambers dealerships will quickly be displaying Too Sizzling for Spot® supplies, to additional amplify the message.
ARL is marking 10 years of the Too Sizzling for Spot® marketing campaign, however sadly, we’re nonetheless seeing loads of cases the place an animal’s life is put at risk on account of being left in a scorching car, a number of of which have occurred in simply the previous month.
With temperatures this summer season being effectively above common, it’s crucial this message reaches as many pet homeowners as doable.
Leaving an animal in a scorching automobile is the primary reason for lethal heatstroke in pets.
When temperatures rise, so do considerations about animal security.
Even when the mercury dips beneath 80 levels, the risk for warmth stroke nonetheless exists.
Inside 5 minutes’ time, a car’s inside temperature can rise above 118 levels on a 75-degree day, even with the home windows cracked.
Throughout this week’s scorching automobile demonstration, with exterior temperatures round 90 levels, after a thermometer was positioned in an ARL car, it took lower than three minutes for the inside temperature of the car to achieve practically 120 levels!
Go to arlboston.org/too-hot-for-spot to study necessary pet security ideas and pointers and keep in mind — when the temperatures rise, it’s Too Sizzling for Spot®!