A 2-year-old French bulldog died after being left inside a parked vehicle for about an hour in East El Paso County, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Deputies responded around 3 p.m. May 9 to the 6900 block of Hueco Tanks Road after a caller reported dogs had been left unattended inside a vehicle that was not running, according to a Facebook post from the sheriff\u2019s office. The caller reported that one of the animals appeared to be in distress.<\/p>\n
By the time deputies arrived, the dogs\u2019 owners, identified as Manuel Frias, 59, and Griselda Gallegos, 55, had returned to the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the pair attempted CPR on the French bulldog, but the dog was pronounced dead at the scene. A second dog, a 5-year-old Lhasa Apso, survived.<\/p>\n
Authorities determined the dogs had been left inside the vehicle for approximately one hour without adequate ventilation or protection from the heat.<\/p>\n
Frias and Gallegos were each charged with one count of cruelty to non-livestock animals \u2014 failure to provide, and one count of cruelty to non-livestock animals \u2014 kill\/poison\/serious bodily injury. Both were booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on $10,000 bonds.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnimal cruelty cases are something we take very seriously,\u201d Sheriff Oscar Ugarte said in the post. \u201cPets depend on us for their safety and well-being, and no animal should suffer due to negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ugarte also warned that temperatures inside parked vehicles can become deadly within minutes, even when outdoor temperatures do not appear extreme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2-year-old French bulldog died after being left inside a parked vehicle for about an hour in East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-288863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}