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FOLSOM, Calif. (CBS13) – A Rancho Cordova woman has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly leaving her dog inside a hot car, fatally dehydrating him.

The Folsom Police Department said officers found a 6 month old Pomeranian/Shih Tzu mix puppy, Gizmo, lying on the rear floorboard of a black Honda parked in a Winco lot around 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Investigators said the owner had lowered some of the vehicle’s windows by about two inches, but called the effort a token measure in the face of the rising heat inside the car.

“If you’re in an oven and it’s 150 degrees inside the oven, and someone opens the oven half an inch, it’s still 150 degrees where you are,” said Folsom Police Sgt. Chris Emery.

Gizmo was panting heavily when officers arrived and was likely left alone in the overheated vehicle for more than one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half hours. Officers immediately put the puppy in an air conditioned patrol car, doused him with water and rushed him to the Blue Ravine Pet Hospital for treatment, but Gizmo’s condition rapidly deteriorated and he died during the night.

Animal services officials said external temperatures of 86 degrees can cause the temperature inside of a vehicle to skyrocket past 150 degrees within 15 to 20 minutes. Officers recorded an external temperature of 93 degrees when they arrived at the scene.

Officers arrested 21-year-old TiAndra Davis on a felony charge of cruelty to animals Thursday and booked her into the Sacramento County Main Jail on $10,000 bail.

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  • Jim

    Incredible

  • Hilary

    Idiots I see it all the time ppl leaving their dogs in the car in hot weather…LEAVE THEM AT HOME YOU DUMB A**ES!!!

  • postalvixen

    Wow if she left a 6 month old puppy in the car what happens if she ever has a baby? Somebody please say they are going to have her fixed so she can’t breed.

  • Elliott the Cat

    Would love punch this lady right in here nose !

    Your job is to protect this little animal , you fail .

    Hope God Fails in protecting You !

  • Anthony

    No offense but again, your average person doesn’t look at a child and a pet in the same way, even if some people do. So that is a bit of a reach for what appears to be an ignorant and careless mistake.

  • whatajerk

    Headline should read, “Pig kills dog”.

  • Dustin Johnston

    You guess, but you have no idea. Oh wait, Im suppose to feel sorry for the black guy that killed his animal? no thanks

  • Dustin Johnston

    BTW shes not white and they did show her picture. cbsglobal must be being racist again!

  • J

    That’s all you got from this article? Pity you.

  • dontworryaboutit

    a pet is a living creature. a child is a living creature. both will die if left in a hot car. no offense, but what is the difference and where is the reach?

  • Reality

    Elliott the Cat writes: “Would love punch this lady right in here nose !
    Your job is to protect this little animal , you fail .
    Hope God Fails in protecting You !”

    LMAO… what a pathetic Christian hypocrite!

    #1) Punching people isn’t very conducive to what Jesus teaches.

    #2) Saying that you hope this person gets no mercy from God isn’t very Jesus-like either.

    #3) Your job is to understand your own faith, you fail.

    What an imbecile.

    Cheers!

  • Chris Draper

    A name like TiAndra and you think she’s white? You’ve got to be kidding me.

  • Dave

    Tiandra Davis………… Yea I know a lot of whites named Tiandra moron

  • Becky Magnuson

    It breaks my heart. I bet Gizmo met her daily with love and affection and in return got ??????

  • Dave

    Right on!!!!!!!!! It killsdog

  • Allie

    doesn’t matter is she’s black, white, brown, green or yellow, she was an imbecile for leaving her puppy in a hot car and it paid the price for her stupidity

  • Reality

    THE LYNCH MOB IS OUT!!!!!

    First off, I am a big animal lover. I’m no PETA freak and I do eat meat. I’ve rescued countless animals in my life. In fact my the pets I currently own are ones that I personally rescued off of the street.

    With that said, let’s look at the facts here:

    #1) The police “found Gizmo, lying on the rear floorboard of a black Honda parked in a Winco lot.”

    What exactly were the police doing snooping inside of this car to begin with? Not a huge deal, just found it odd.

    #2) “the owner had lowered some of the vehicle’s windows by about two inches”

    So she TRIED to do the right thing, thus her intentions were good.

    #3) “Officers arrested 21-year-old TiAndra Davis on a felony charge of cruelty to animals Thursday and booked her into the Sacramento County Main Jail on $10,000 bail.”

    Arrested and put on $10K bail??? Really?!? Is she a “flight risk?” Do we as a society really need to use taxpayer resources by putting her in jail? This was an animal, not a human.

    So in the end, was this lady incompetent? Yes. (She left the dog in too long, didn’t give it water, etc.) Was she an idiot? Yes. Should she own a pet? No.

    This lady should pay a fine and do a bunch of community service to make up for her “crime.” But taking up jail space and having to pay $10K bail is ridiculously absurd.

    Cheers!

  • Reality

    To the people responding, “Whitey” does this all the time regardless of the story. He/She does this to get a rise out of people.

    While on one hand it is annoying, on the other hand it is sort of amusing because of the dichotomy of how a decent percentage of the ignorant white people on here blame all of society’s ills on the Mexicans or the Blacks every chance they get.

    In any event, just ignore Whitey.

    Cheers!

  • JAZZABELLE

    Thats just so sad what wrong with some of these people they just dont care I guess and so and innocent little puppy has to die geez things like this make me ashamed of humanity but I know there are a lot more caring people out then these careless, ingorant ones (tear)

  • Linda

    What a B****!!! I wonder if this is the same woman from Rancho that left her pit pull puppy in the car at the park on 4th of July?????

  • Reality

    Yes, I’m sure it is the same woman that left her “pit pull” puppy in the car. She went from having a “put pull” to a Pomeranian/Shih Tzu mix.

  • like it and lump it

    I am not a very good christian. i would like to kick this lady in her head – she is not using it for much anyway.

  • Jake

    It is also terrible that she will now be a FELON. Yes she showed an inability to properly care for her dog but a felony seems very extreme. She did not pull a Vick and fight her pup against other pups. A misdemeanor would seem more appropriate. I know many of you will overreact to this post and say that the life a dog (which would probably have only lived another 10-15 years max) is worth severely limiting this rest of this 21 year old girls life (another 60-80 years!). You tell me what is more important, dog or person.

  • sacking

    Easy. Lock her in a car with windows partly lowered for 2hrs with no water. I got no problem with that.

  • Reality

    Good points Jake.

    Cheers!

  • swinss

    Another ignorant human….
    What a horrible way for that defenseless puppy to die.

  • Susan

    What an as*!

  • redneckwriter

    As most people are imbiciles, I would say the dog is more important.

  • swinss

    WOW! Nice analysis. You could get a job working for the State of California.

  • Karen C

    She should have the same thing happen to her.

  • RRAY

    I cannot believe that people are STILL “unaware” of the dangers of leaving pets & children in the car…even on a “cooler” day. 70 degrees outside is nice, but the car can heat up hotter than that. Leaving a dog or child in a car on a 90+ degree day is like placing them in a hot oven! PLEASE post this website on your website…it teaches about the dangers of leaving dogs in hot cars. http://www.mydogiscool.com I hope this girl is punished…severely!

  • Getaclue

    What were the police doing snooping in cars? Really, you can’t figure that out. Do you think maybe someone walking by might have seen the dog and perhaps called the police?

  • barbiegurl0329@comcast.net

    The punishment IS NOT EXTREME
    EXTREME was what that poor animal suffered through, I don’t care how gooffy or air headed you are any human beyond 2 yeaqrs of age that has ever watched T.V. for 10 minutes knows NOT TO LEAVE A DOG IN THE CAR IN THE HEAT They should make an example of her even though it is “just an animal” it still has feeling it feels pain just like you only it cares about its owner it wouldn’t torture it’s owner to death like this woman did.
    Poor dog fry that witch

  • Getaclue

    Jake, did you perhaps just serve on a jury in Florida?

  • Cmore

    How can you have an animal and do this to it. This owner needs to be put in a car with windows up in the sun. She needs to suffer the same as that poor little dog did. I can’t even begin to think of how that little dog suffered. I wonder what other horrible things she did to it. She needs to spend time at an animal shelter for her punishment. For we all know she won’t have to serve any time in jail. Killers get off with killing their kid and putting them in a garbage bag and into a swamp. So for sure killing a dog is nothing. Hopefully she doesn’t have kids and never will. She should be banned fromowning another animal.

  • Cmore

    The dog.

  • Elliott the Cat

    YOUR DUMB !

  • Elliott the Cat

    REALITY : MUST OF BEEN A 911 PILOT !

  • Laura Bauer

    No, pigs have better manners. Human left canine in car. Color and creed has nothing to do with it, it’s morality that is in question here.

  • Melissa in Norcal

    Maybe they are a Muslim. They wish ill on others all the time and ask for God’s help in murder.

  • Reality

    Getaclue writes: “What were the police doing snooping in cars? Really, you can’t figure that out. Do you think maybe someone walking by might have seen the dog and perhaps called the police?”

    When i wrote this, there was only a still picture of the dog and the text of the story. The text says nothing about anyone notifying the police. Now my browser has a video included as well. In the video, it says they responded to “911 calls” which answers the question. So I rescind that part of my questioning since there is now factual evidence.

    The video also says (which is not included in the text) that the dog owner was simply cited and released on the scene and was LATER arrested once the dog actually died.

    Cheers!

  • Reality

    Elliott the Cat writes: “YOUR DUMB !”

    You don’t even know the difference between “your” and “you’re” and are calling other people dumb. Fricken’ hilarious!

    You’re so dumb that you’d inadvertently lock yourself in a hot car and keep the windows up until you died despite having the keys to open the doors and roll down the windows.

    Cheers!

  • Reality

    Susan, don’t talk about yourself like that.

    Cheers!

  • Reality

    dontworryaboutit writes: “a pet is a living creature. a child is a living creature. both will die if left in a hot car. no offense, but what is the difference and where is the reach?”

    A pet ant in an ant farm is a living creature. A child is a living creature. Awesome. Should we start locking up people for stepping on ants?

    There is clearly a difference between an ant and a dog. Just like there is clearly a difference between a dog and a child.

    How about using some basic common sense instead of making inane comparisons?

    Cheers!

  • Reality

    Melissa in Norcal writes: “Maybe they are a Muslim. They wish ill on others all the time and ask for God’s help in murder.”

    Islam and Christianity are both Abrahamic Faiths. Thus, for all intents and purposes, they believe in the exact same God. This just goes to illustrate how absurd religion is… the two groups are at war with each other over the same God.

    Cheers!

  • Reality

    For all of the people on here whining about what a horrible human being this woman is, perhaps you should all ask yourselves why you are sitting here commenting left and right.

    After all, there was another story on this site that concerns a mother killing her baby from meth in her breast milk. Her other 19 month old daughter also tested positive for meth. That story has been around for roughly the same amount of time as this dog story and it has a grand total of just one single comment as compared to the 45+ comments here.

    http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/07/21/woman-to-stand-trial-for-meth-breast-milk-death/

    So the people here get all up in arms about a puppy dying, but don’t have much to say about the human baby dying.

    It’s nice to know that you people have your priorities in line.

    Cheers!

  • Wowww

    Reality is…Reality is an @ss. Dude, get a life.

  • Jake

    So you want to have this woman, who has proven herself incompetent around animals, working in an animal shelter?

  • Jake

    But you forget that people that are looking at this post view a human babies life as equal to a canine puppies life…

  • Jodi

    Her color doesn’t matter, her ignorance does. There have been repeated stories and warnings on this. A little common sense goes a long way. When we accept responsibility for an animal/pet we accept responsibility for ALL aspects and quality of that animal’s life. If we do not know we can choose to learn or not partake in ownership. What she did was cruel, and I am sure Gizmo suffered a great deal of pain (baking is not an easy death). Be grateful we live in a society where it matters. It would be a sad state of affairs if everyone just looked the other way and said “Not my problem”.

  • Jake

    I did not just serve on a jury in Florida. Forgive me for valuing human life over all other forms of life. If you were given the choice to save a complete stranger’s life or a dog’s life you would probably choose the dog. Got to love California.

  • Alexis Raymond

    Sadly, this kind of tragedy happens all the time. Every year, dogs die after being intentionally locked inside cars while their owners shop or run other errands. Many people do not realize how quickly an enclosed car can heat up to a dangerous temperature.

    If you care about this issue and want to educate others about the perils of leaving dogs in hot cars, please visit:
    http://www.MyDogIsCool.com

    If you see an animal in distress inside a vehicle, call your local animal control agency, police department or 911 right away.

  • Talking to Anthony & Reality

    A believe the point dontworryaboutit is/was trying to make is that life is life… and I could just as easily say that your comparison of ants to dogs is as callous as a comparison of dogs to babies.

    The point is that this woman was selfishly thinking only of herself… and would likely continue to do so IF she ever had a child. Stupidity + selfishness = not a good parent.

  • Crystal Mccain

    I went to H.S. with this person and she already has a child. I had issues with her then and even more now. How could anybody be so heartless and uncaring to do this to an innocent little puppy. It’s very sad and I hope she is punished accordingly. R.I.P. Gizmo…

  • Kim G

    Sacramento County Inmate Information
    Search By Name – Search Results
    Search By Name Search By X-Ref Number FAQ
    All charges shown for arrested/in custody persons represent the most recent information known to the Sheriff’s Department. As individuals move through the judicial process, charges may change.

    Inmate Name Date of Birth Custody Status
    DAVIS, TIANDRA LEQUITA 03/14/1990 Released 07/21/2011

    Number of records found: 1

  • Reality

    Talking to Anthony & Reality writes: “I could just as easily say that your comparison of ants to dogs is as callous as a comparison of dogs to babies.”

    Of course it is as that was my intent. ;)

    Cheers!

  • Casey

    She is a selfish moron, end of story.

  • Casey

    God save her child. A woman this selfish and careless is a disaster waiting to happen.

  • Casey

    Correction, she is a disaster and if you can’t be trusted with a puppy, you can’t be trusted with a child. PERIOD.

  • Sacramento public

    You are Dumb Lady !

  • RedRover

    Sadly, this kind of tragedy happens all the time. Every year, dogs die after being intentionally locked inside cars while their owners shop or run other errands.

    When it is 72 degrees outside, the temperature inside a car can rocket to 116 degrees within an hour, even with windows cracked. When it is 85 degrees outside, the temperature inside a car can soar to 102 degrees in 10 minutes and 120 degrees in 30 minutes.

    A dog’s normal body temperature ranges from 101 to 102.5 degrees. Dogs can withstand a body temperature of 107 to 108 degrees for only a short time before suffering organ failure, brain and nerve damage — or even death.

    If you see an animal in distress inside a vehicle, call your local animal control agency, police department or humane society right away.

    The My Dog is Cool Campaign operated by RedRover lets people know that leaving a dog in a car for even “just a few minutes” may be too long.

    To order or download educational fliers and posters, or to enter your zip code and find out if it is too hot to bring your dog in the car, visit:

    http://www.MyDogIsCool.com

  • BigRed53

    Why is anyone bringing up race? Does it matter whether she’s white, black, or purple? You people doing this represent a good party of exactly whats wrong in this world!

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