Dog Dies In Sizzling SUV As Owner Shops In Shorewood: Report

SHOREWOOD, IL - The Shorewood Police Department is treating Sunday's death of an older English bulldog inside a hot vehicle as an accidental death, according to a story published in The Joliet Herald-News. The article indicated the 11-year-old dog died on Sunday afternoon inside the sports utility vehicle of the dog's owner.

The vehicle was parked near the Staples store, 900 block of Brook Forest Avenue, the story reported.

Shorewood Police Department's deputy chief Eric Allen told the newspaper that the 64-year-old woman was "hysterical and distraught" to learn her dog had died, after she finished her shopping in Staples. "Nobody's more upset about this than the dog owner," the paper quoted Allen as saying.

The woman's second English bulldog, 9 years old, was taken to an animal hospital in Plainfield and survived the ordeal, the newspaper article said.

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