A man reportedly locked up his daughter’s three dogs in a car for three days in scorching heat, leading to their deaths.
Felton Charles Henderson’s daughter was getting ready to get out of town for a few days and left her dogs with him so he could care for them, according to Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons.
The daughter left essential supplies for her puppies before she left, but her father locked them in the Toyota Camry without them, according to the Pensacola News Journal†
“She left water, she left food, whatever it took to care for these dogs,” Simmons said. “When she came back after a few days, she asked where her dogs were.”
As the daughter walked home, her father took her to the car and showed her the dead dogs.
The temperature in Cantonment, Florida, exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit all three days the man kept the dogs in the car.
“Obviously all he did was lock up these dogs – lock up these dogs – in today’s heat, yesterday’s heat, the day before yesterday, he put these dogs in his blue Toyota Camry knowing full well they wouldn’t.” would survive,” he said. Simons.
“You can imagine the suffering they probably went through.”
Henderson, 72, of Cantonment, was arrested Thursday and charged with animal cruelty.
“This is no way to treat an animal,” Simmons said. “They rely on you to give them the care and the care and you haven’t. So you’re going to jail.’
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