The thermometer read over 100°F, and the parking lot asphalt was boiling. 🔥
In San Dimas, California, a woman was walking her dog without boots across the pavement outside a TJ Maxx when another woman, upon seeing it lift its paws over and over, stopped to warn her: the heat could burn them in seconds. The owner did not take it well. She responded by calling her “old, white Karen” and threatened to call the police. The other woman encouraged her to do so, convinced that this walk was outright animal abuse.
The police never arrived. The owner got into her car with a friend, insisting that her dog was perfectly healthy because it had eaten that morning. Meanwhile, pavement can exceed 145°F under direct sunlight, which can cause severe burns almost instantly. The video was recorded, the debate remains open, and no one knows whether that dog ended up with injured paws. 🐕