Bangor, Maine – Maine’s first comfort dog, a three-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, died after being left in a hot car. According to sources, the young dog, Baxter, was found inside a state vehicle parked at the Bangor Regional Communications Center last Wednesday.
Baxter had worked with the Maine Bureau of Emergency Communications since 2022; his job was to provide comfort to employees at the state’s three regional dispatch centers.
In a statement, Maine’s Department of Public Safety said:
“His calming and cheerful presence will be deeply missed by all those who interacted with him. The department extends its deepest condolences to Baxter’s handler and his family, as well as the entire emergency telecommunication team.”
The temperature was in the mid-80s on the day that Baxter died. An investigation is underway to determine how and why the vehicle’s air-conditioning system stopped working.
Rest easy Baxter.
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Shameful!
Fly high, Baxter, sweetheart! You were a Good Boy! You didn’t deserve this! 😞.
Baxter you were so beautiful, whoever left you in the car should be prosecuted. doesn’t matter state employee or not. you can’t trust air conditioner, 80 degrees, better if window had been left down. terrible fate.
Hold the person responsible for leaving Baxter in a vehicle during hot weather needs to be held accountable and fired. No dog should be left in any vehicle.
Absolutely shocking what law enforcement is allowed to get away with
No animal should not be left in a car!!! If you have to take an animal somewhere, take that animal with you no matter where you go. I do not for one second believe that the a/c unit failed. It is just an excuse. I would say that someone “forgot” about the poor pup was in the car. Despicable human beings!!! Humans destroy every dang thing they touch!! The animals on this planet are the two-legged humans!!! Not four-legged ones!!! I am sick of people having some freaking excuse just to cover their rearends. If you take an animal with you, take it whereever you go!!! Take the animal out of the car whenever you exit the car. NO EXCUSES!!!
The monster responsible for the death of this poor dog must pay! This is murder in cold blood!!!!
Another summer, another round of dogs and children being left in hot cars. I don’t know about other people’s cars but if I leave mine idoling the air conditioner doesn’t keep the car very cool at all. My dog doesn’t go with us if we have to go inside and leave her in the car. So many lives lost by irresponsible people!
Frankly I am Sick and Tired of Hearing Our Working Pups Dying Because Of Faulty Air Conditioning Systems in the cars!!!
DARLING BAXTER SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN LEFT IN THE CAR ALONE!!
I am Soooooooo Sorry Sweet Baxter that you died in such a Horrific Way!!
This is Animal Abuse and Cruelty!!
God Bless You Darling Angel Baxter (“”)♥️(“”) You Are A Brave Hero and will be Treasured Forever!
Put that human piece of shit that left that poor poor in a hot in an equally if not hotter car.He doesn’t deserve to walk among normal people.and don’t give us that air conditioning wasn’t working bull shit.that seems to happen a lot with city or government cars.my guess is it wasn’t even on.there is a special place In hell for monsters like you.
Lot of “air conditioner failures” going on in police and government vehicles. But it’s “only” a dog, say the worst trash on the planet.
Pathetic this would happen. Shame on the handler. Don’t leave a dog in a car in that temperature even if the AC is working. This pup deserved so much better from this world. I hope those responsible are haunted by this for the remainder of their lives.