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Originally Posted by FlDebra

Fans blowing stifling hot air would not have been much help to dogs that cannot sweat, only pant to try to cool themselves.

There is also a very disturbing sound to the question about times. The handler says she checked on them at 4 am and they were fine but in distress at 6:30 am. Then the vet said she got a cell phone call at 9:08 am, a call at her office at 9:20 am and met the handler and dogs at her office at 9:30 but rigor mortis had already set in, in some of the dead dogs. From what I read, rigor mortis just begins around 3 hours after death with full rigor @ the 12 hour point. It did say she tried to hose them down, but would you wait from 6:30 am til after 9:00 am to contact the vet, if you knew the dogs were in such distress? Three hours from when she said she noticed they were in distress til she had them at the vet and they had already had rigor mortis set in. So, were they already dead before she contacted the vet?

I do think it was a horrible accident, but one that should never have happened. The dog owners do deserve an accurate account of what happened. I imagine the dogs were insured and insurance companies will probably have their own investigators too. Unfortunately, no matter what is learned, the poor dogs still died what had to be a cruel and heinous death. It breaks my heart to see how beautiful those dogs were and know they are now gone due to human neglect.

I agree but didn't want to open a can of worms.