I know people think they have heard it all about this. If you think you have well then enlighten me. Because I haven't heard it all. All through this deal with Sergeant Lovejoy's dog Bandit you heard how he was deprived of sleep, how he worked long hours, his son got in an accident and he was confused, that circadian rhythym that builds up on you. He even got that psychologists to testify about it. Is that like the circadian, arcadian rhythm that built up on me after working third shift for three years but never forgot my dog in a car?

Funny how some things are excusable and others aren't. Especially if it's "just a dog". That expression makes me ill. Sure it may have been an accident but there was one thing that was never brought up the entire time of the investigation or the trial. The procedures that you never stray from. EVER!

It's not a simple lapse in judgment. It is a procedural error that occurs far too often with dogs and babies. Am I perfect? Of course not. But there should never have been a reason for this sort of thing to occur. When I was a teenager I had hunting dogs and I participated in night hunting. This was drilled in to me over and over and over by older, experienced hunters. Just like Sgt. Lovejoy should have never strayed from. That is, when you got home after being out all night, you never, ever, without any exceptions, left your dog or dogs in the car, for any reason. The very first thing you did was take your dog or dogs out of your car or truck, put them back in their shelter and give them food and water. You didn't go in the house, you didn't lay down or say I'll do it later because you may fall asleep and wake up to dead dogs suffocated. Just like he did.

But it wasn't 110 degrees back home. Same thing here. I don't care how many hours I was in the woods or how tired I was . It is one of the most gross, negligent things you can do. Just the same as never take your eyes off a child by a swimming pool for two seconds. That may be all it takes.

 What is the deal with this situation? When the daughter came in and said Bandit didn't come to her wasn't that a red flag? When they went out to eat and was in the restaurant for a hour or two not once did his work come up and he thought about his dog? It's strange to me.

Now he has suffered enough. But quit blaming the Sheriff's department. Too many people are doing that now for too many things. Also, when he got acquitted he didn't have to jump for joy about it. There was nothing to clap about! People saying "it's just a dog" annoys me.

I don't need comparisons about children either. There were no children in the car.