A Michigan woman has been arrested after allegedly leaving her dog in a freezing vehicle overnight in Upstate New York.<\/p>\n
Arianna Harvey, 28, of Flint, Mich., was arrested Jan. 1, New York State Police announced Tuesday. Troopers said they responded around 7:41 a.m. on New Year\u2019s Day to a report of an animal left in a vehicle without a heat source in the town of Queensbury.<\/p>\n
An investigation determined that Harvey left the dog inside the vehicle while temperatures dropped well below freezing on New Year\u2019s Eve, police said. <\/p>\n
The dog was uninjured and released back to Harvey.<\/p>\n
Harvey was charged with an agriculture & markets law violation under 352-D, Confinement of companion animals in vehicles: extreme temperatures. She was issued a ticket to appear in Queensbury Town Court on Jan. 12 and released.<\/p>\n
According to the American Kennel Club<\/a>, pets should never be left alone in a car on a hot summer day<\/a> or in extreme cold conditions during the winter. Cars have little to no insulation and it can be dangerous to assume a dog\u2019s fur will be enough to protect them from developing frostbite or hypothermia, leading to cardiac and respiratory failure, brain damage, coma, and even death, the AKC said.<\/p>\n