Atlanta Woman Left 2 Dogs In Hot Car: Cobb Police

MARIETTA, GA -- A Cobb County police officer spotted two panting dogs locked in a parked car outside a Kroger grocery store recently, leading to the arrest of an Atlanta woman, Patch has learned.

Animal control officers were called to free the dogs, who were inside the car from 9:30 a.m. to a little after 1 p.m., according to news reports. Raivyn Symone Dixon was jailed on an animal cruelty charge in the incident, which took place at the Kroger on Shallowford Road in Marietta.

The animal control officer used a thermometer to read the temperature inside the car and found that it registered 118 degrees at one point, but hovered around 110. The Cobb officer said that he happened upon the dogs and noticed them struggling. “I observed the two dogs to be panting heavily and an excessive amount of liquid to be emanating from their mouths,” the officer wrote, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The dogs appeared to be OK once they were freed and they were given to Dixon's girlfriend, who was on the scene.

For more on this story, see the AJC.

Image courtesy of Cobb County Sheriff's Office