Tense moment an angry shopper screams at woman for leaving her dog in a car on a ’36C’ day – as debate erupts about whether she went too far
Footage of two women embroiled in a heated car park clash over a dog being locked in a car on a sweltering hot day has divided Aussies.
Footage of the fiery clash filmed last week in an Aldi carpark on Victoria’s Phillip Island showed a woman pushing a trolley to her car and opening her car door as the dog jumps out.
She was confronted by a concerned passer-by, who claimed the dog had been locked in the car for 20 minutes.
‘It’s not fine,’ the woman filming was heard saying.
The pet owner fired back: ‘It is, I love my dog.’
The woman retorted: ‘You love your dog but you’ve left it in the heat, in a car.
‘Do you know how hot it is? It’s 36 degrees.’
The dog owner argued that her dog had just had a bath and was still wet.
Two shoppers clashed over a dog being locked in a car on a 36C day
The woman informed the dog owner that she’d been reported and that the police were on their way.
The dog ran between the two women, shaking water from its coat and wagging its tail, apparently unfazed by the confrontation.
‘He’s gorgeous,’ the dog owner said.
The woman filming replied: ‘Yeah, he’s gorgeous, and you’ve left him in the car.
She informed the dog owner she’d taken a photo of the pooch locked in the car.
The shopper asked why she would do that.
‘Because it’s cruel and my daughter’s a vet,’ the woman replied.
‘You don’t do that to dogs. You’ve been reported.’
The owner repeated the dog had just had a bath and was dripping wet.
She also pointed out that a cup of water had been placed next to the dog.
The shopper claimed that the woman’s dog had been locked inside the car for 20 minutes
In a later clip of the incident, the woman could be seen appearing to obstruct the departing vehicle with her body, before saying ‘you’re f***ed’ as the white Kia drove off.
Earlier clips showed the dog laying on the driver’s seat in the Kia, with a cup of water beside it and the windows cracked halfway down.
Another clip showed a ‘Good Samaritan’ parking behind the white Kia and and trying to block it in ‘until the police arrived’.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest any wrongdoing on the part of the dog owner.
Aussies were divided over the vigilante’s actions with some branding her as a ‘Karen’.
Others disagreed and applauded the woman for confronting the dog owner.
‘Well done, this makes me wild,’ one viewer commented.
Another added: ‘Lock her in the car for same [amount of] time the poor dog was left in the car, some people shouldn’t have pets,’ a third added.
A third wrote: ‘Well done, thank you for being the good in this world looking out for dogs in the heat.
But many other claimed the vigilante was overreacting.
‘He wasn’t even panting,’ one viewer commented.
Another said: ‘Good on you … but feel you carried on a bit too far.
‘Some people have nothing better to do,’ another said.
Shine Lawyers warned that an animal unattended inside a car for more than ten minutes when the outside temperature is at or above 28C is illegal in Victoria.
