8 Jul, 2016 @ 12:21
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VIDEO: Guardia Civil smash car window to rescue dog

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THIS is the moment Guardia Civil officers smashed a car window to rescue a pet dog.

The brown Pitbull had been left inside the silver car in the middle of a hot day in Costa Brava’s Alicante.

The owners had turned the car off and not left the windows open to allow air into the vehicle.

Officers had no choice but to break the windows to stop the dog from dying from heat exhaustion.

Facebook users have praised the work of the Guardia Civil.

One user wrote: “Well done Guardia Civil!”

Another said: “Thank you, you are heroes!”

Others criticised the owners for leaving their dog trapped, labelling them careless.

“Why are people so damn careless with the lives of animals,” read one of the comments, “At least this poor dog had a happy ending.”

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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