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<div>Hi all</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I always have that fear, that I will lock my key inside my car and now with the dog in it i get really worried. But since the beginning of time I have always rolled down my driver side window, regardless of the weather. My truck thankfully will not auto lock with the keys in the engine. All the American cars I have had come to think of it, ( I have a Ford now) have auto unlocking doors or doors that would not lock from the inside. . Where if the car was in park, key in the engine, I lock the door and shut it, the lock unlocks. I think My uncle's Honda is the same way, but I had an Hyundai and it would lock the door as soon as it shut. But again anytime I am at the gas station my window is open. Then Auto down on the windows now is great, I press the button and walk away knowing the window is open. </div><div><br></div><div>Now that I am on the subject. My wife and I very seldom go out anymore. Since we got The Colonel. Shopping is all but side lined. I need to find a place where I can bring the dog in and shop for stuff. I understand is that most Home Depots will allow you to bring in your dog. Although he does not mind sitting in the truck and watching me, pump gas get him food or drinks. I hate leaving him. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Here in the northeast there is a Million no wait Billion, no more then that, There is a Dunkin Doughnuts on every street conner. But a few year ago they changed there coffee and now its yuck. But we have a smaller coffee place called Mary Lou's, but they most of the time do not have drive thru's so I am force to leave my dog in the car wile I get myself a coffee, My wife, whos not with me, a Thin-mint Iced Coffee thingy, and something for the dog. although he would just like to drink / eat my wife's coffee with the cover full of whip cream. I am always worried about someone stealing my truck, forget the truck, take the truck leave dog tied to street sign. Don't get me wrong I love my truck but I want the dog more. I am sure Colonel would eat anyone that tried to get him away from me, but I still worry. I worry So bad that I stand at the window and watch him. Till its my turn. (I have to open my own doggy coffee shop) But its so hard to go out with the dog, I hate internet shopping, I rather go to the store and pick up some thing but sometimes I have to leave the dog with someone. Making Madders worse is that The Colonel has a very very very hard time being left alone. He is worse when I leave him. Although in the morning he goes with nana because I have to work to feed him, I know he hates it. Nor am I too fond of it. My work does not offer dog time in the office:( . He still freaks out when left alone, the last time it was not good. But I will just not go shopping and in the summer, I will not leave him in the car. We just stay home or find a Bupsitter. Its the same way going to the conner store. I have to make two trips because I will not leave him tied up wile I go inside. why can more places accept our dogs like kids. Thats a whole different topic. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>OK I will go there, my family goes out to dinner for birthday's and holidays, Sunday was my brother's birthday, we go out to dinner at a nice restaurant! there is a group of 4 adults, and I kid you not 6 kids. The kid are screaming yelling and running amok!! People are leaving the restaurant without eating. Its Bad. I looked at my dad and said I should have just brought the dog, he better behaved then the these animals. Everyone at my table agreed. Colonel could have had a shirt and tie and sat quietly, I am not sure how much we would have gotten to eat after he would sample all the plates. but still. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for letting me Rant. </div><div>Don't worry I don't really feed my Dog everything he wants. He just helps himself. </div><div>Drool to All. </div><div><br></div><div>George</div><div>Colonel "Daddy, can I have some more of mommy's girl-scout thin-mint coffee thingy, and all the prime rid is wonderful. Bark"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Kathleen Lewis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">So since everyone’s been talking about dogs locked in cars, I have a story too. One day last week in very hot <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Houston</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">TX</st1:state></st1:place>, I accidentally locked my keys, purse (which had my phone) and Oswald (my 4 year old basset) in the car I was driving. Normally I drive my own car which has manual locks, but that day I was driving my soon to be brother-in-law’s Camry which has automatic locks. Oswald and I were going to said BIL’s house to switch cars back. I got into the car and realized that the gas light was on, and we wouldn’t be able to make it there without stopping to get gas, so since there’s a gas station on the way to the freeway we stopped there. I got out of the car with my wallet, leaving my purse behind and the keys in the ignition so Oz could listen to the music while I was temporarily out of the car pumping gas. I wasn’t even planning on going into the gas station because I could just pay with my card at the pump. As soon as I got out of the car and shut the door I realize that unlike my car, you have to push a button inside the car to open the gas door, so I try to open the door I just shut about 5 seconds before and it was locked, even though I made sure to leave it unlocked when I shut it. So at that point, I realize that all of my stuff and my poor dog is locked in the car. I proceeded to go into the gas station, where they let me use their phone. The only number I knew by heart was my fiancee’s so I called him and told him that our dog was locked in the car with the keys. I don’t have AAA, and didn’t know what to do. He called his brother, and found out that there was no spare key. Then he got the insurance information for his brother and fortunately they have roadside assistance, so about 20-30 minutes later both the Fiancee and the roadside assistance people got there and got the car open. Fortunately we were in the shade and the car was still cool inside when I locked the keys in from the air conditioning, but it was still in the 90’s outside, so I was really nervous about what was going to happen to Oz. I kept talking to him and standing out there with him, so he knew he wasn’t alone. I was trying to get him to push the unlock button or the window button, but he’s a lazy boy, so he was just sitting there or laying there the whole time and would just look at me like I was crazy for pointing at the buttons. I found out after the fact that every time you leave your keys in the ignition, the doors automatically lock, that would have probably been good to know before I left the keys in the ignition in the first place. I’ve learned that anytime I ever want to leave the dog in the car, even for a minute or two, the keys will come with me. </span></div><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Drool to everyone in need!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Kat and Oswald <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> </o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dailydrool mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Dailydrool@dailydrool.org">Dailydrool@dailydrool.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.dailydrool.org/listinfo.cgi/dailydrool-dailydrool.org">http://lists.dailydrool.org/listinfo.cgi/dailydrool-dailydrool.org</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>