You've gotta wonder!

I came out of the Woolworths shopping centre in Atherton yesterday and as I walked back to our car I heard a very small dog barking in a car.  I followed the sound to a red Land Rover Discovery and saw there was a small blonde coloured chihuahua shut in it.  I returned to the centre and found the caretaker inside the doors and she followed me out and took down the details of the vehicle and returned to the centre to broadcast it on the public address system.  I waited to see what happened and as I stood back in the centre of the car park I saw a woman approach the vehicle with a shopping bag.  She didn't look directly into the car but looked around as if looking for someone.  I walked up to her and asked if it was her vehicle.  She said it was and that her husband must have taken the dog out as it wasn't there anymore.  I pointed out that the dog had given up barking and was in the next stage of heat distress and was in the foot well on the passenger side.  "Oh yes" she said.  I told her that it was I that had reported the dog in distress and she told me that the windows were open and it was parked in the shade.  I drew her attention to the fact that the windows on either side were open 1cm and that only the front of the car was in the shade of a tree.  She appeared not to know that it was a criminal offence to shut a dog in a car on a hot day and as it was about 30 degrees celcius according to the bureau of meteorology I didn't know how she could dispute this but she did.  I said that a dog could die in a hot car in 10 minutes and he said that she had just come from Georgetown and did I know what it was like there.  I failed to see the connection between Georgetown and Woolworths car park in Atherton but she pursued the theory that there is a connection.  She said the dog had survived 13 years so it was hardly likely to die in the heat of her car that day.  Again she brought up Georgetown and had I been there.  Her husband arrived as I was walking away and she pointed out that it was me that had reported the dog in distress.  She called out "see you later" and I said "I do hope not".  In future I will have the numbers of local police stations in the phone and I won't be bothering with caretakers, even though this one did do her job.  The full force of the law for the next one.