{"id":2558,"date":"2019-01-16T16:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T05:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midlandexpress.com.au\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T05:56:58","slug":"dont-leave-dogs-in-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/opinion\/2019\/01\/16\/dont-leave-dogs-in-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t leave dogs in cars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Concerned resident, Kyneton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On my fire scanner last Saturday I heard Echuca Fire Brigade were called out to rescue a dog that had been locked in a closed vehicle for some time when the temperature was well over 30 degrees Celsius! The poor thing was lucky to be alive!<br \/>\nWe hear too many cases like this and I wish to alert people in our region to the dangers of this but also to the resources and manpower used on such an effort when it is so simple to do the right thing and not leave pets in vehicles to begin with.<br \/>\nIt seems like common sense but it seems like we continue to hear the same stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned resident, Kyneton On my fire scanner last Saturday I heard Echuca Fire Brigade were called out to rescue a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,13],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[5234],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don&#039;t leave dogs in cars! 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