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When a dog is very hot, panting isn't enough to stop them from overheating.

In warm weather, the temperature inside a parked car can climb rapidly and will be much higher than outside the vehicle.

Dogs left alone in a car on a hot day can quickly become dehydrated, develop heatstroke, or even die.

With so many residents just not understanding that dogs are very different to humans and feel a dog can take more heat than a human, and social media has been red-hot with residents disgust.

Here are some of the comments: that were on a local group

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"Wish I’d have seen this, I wouldn’t have told him or waited for his return. I’d have just smashed the window with the police on the phone"

"Bloody low life next time he will prob park in disabled bay!!!
I would love to lock him in a hot car"

"Tell you what, let’s put a bloody big fur coat on you, stick you in a hot car, let’s see how long you last, telling people to mind their own business believe me if I saw a dog in any car on days like today I would not try and find its owner, I’d find the nearest brick and get that dog out, OMG I do hope you haven’t got any animals esp dogs"

"Every year something like this is posted, I’d have hoped humans would learn by now I’d have been fuming, so I can understand your frustration. 100% I would have been on the phone to the police and RSPCA asking if I can remove the dog, so really the owner best be glad she had you lovely ladies because she could have lost her dog there and then, why do humans remind me daily we are a vile species"

It seems we have a lot of dog lovers here, so the only advice I can give, Don't leave your dog in a hot car.

Reported by Blake Maynard of Southport Media Group