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Dog dies in hot car while owner drinks
Barr charged with animal cruelty
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A woman is charged with felony animal cruelty after she left a dog to swelter to death in her car while she drank and played pool in a bar. The woman, Lynn Alison Barr, 55, is charged with aggravated animal cruelty and public intoxication for the incident that happened Saturday outside Dr. D’s pub on Smithville Highway.According to police reports, Barr had been drinking at the bar for a couple of hours when other patrons noticed there were a couple of dogs inside her vehicle. It was around 6 p.m. and the temperature was still well into the 80s.“They stated the windows were only cracked a couple of inches and the temperature inside the car was dangerously hot,” said McMinnville patrolwoman Rachel Nichols regarding the eyewitness accounts.Barr, who had been shooting pool and drinking, was eventually confronted by the patrons concerning the danger she was putting the dogs in by leaving them in the hot car.“When she was confronted by some of the customers about the animals, she removed the Rottweiler from the car and walked it across the street to the flea market,” Nichols revealed.