Dogs Rescued After Being Locked In Hot U-Haul

CHICAGO, IL — Several dogs are safe after Chicago police said they were rescued from being locked inside a U-Haul truck Tuesday morning in the Near North Side Streeterville neighborhood, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Bystanders reportedly contacted police around 12:05 a.m. after hearing the six dogs barking in the back of the moving truck in the 200 block of East Grand.

Police said the Good Samaritans took the dogs out of the hot truck and were caring for them when a 70-year-old woman came out of a hotel and told police the dogs belonged to her. The woman added she was in the process of moving, the Sun-Times reported.

Police said one of the dogs was taken to a 24-hour vet and the people who found the pets offered to care for them throughout the night.

The rescuers told police they found two parking tickets on the moving van, the first issued at 5 p.m. the previous day. With a high of 92 degrees in Chicago Monday, the concerned bystanders said they pried the van door open and gave the dogs water, according to WLS. One of the dogs appeared to have just given birth, one bystander told the station.

"(The puppy) was, I would say, a couple days old at most," Jayme Tudor told WLS. "It's insane. If you can see behind me, the entire (van) is just full of dogs and cockroaches and it's filthy and was about 100 degrees in there," Good Samaritan Taylor Kravit added.

The Sun-Times reported the dogs are being returned to the woman Tuesday, as police said she wasn't issued any tickets or fines.

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