Pet Resort Worker Arrested After Dog Dies from Heat Exhaustion
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An employee at a boarding facility is facing criminal charges after investigators say two dogs were left outside in the heat for hours. One of the dogs did not survive. **CLEARWATER, Fla. ** - A Pinellas County woman is facing animal cruelty charges after police say she "forgot" to let two dogs back inside following a ‘potty break’ and one died from heat exhaustion. According to an affidavit, Hailey Devan O’Connor, 24, was working at Bay Paws Pet Resort when she released two dogs from their interior kennel into an outside fenced kennel that had turf and no shade from the sun for a ‘potty break’ around 10:30 a.
m. last Thursday.