Lost Dog (2005)

The only noteworthy thing about the car was that Morris and Bell’s dog, Coby — a black Border collie with a false hip and a missing tooth — was in it, and so was a rather nice viola da gamba that Morris was looking after in his capacity as a rental program director of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. On Coby’s behalf, Morris left the car in the History Center garage with its doors locked but with the engine running and the air-conditioner on — a bit of animal husbandry that is not unheard of in Southern climates if you leave your dog in a parked car and don’t want to return to find him cooked. Morris and Bell were upset about losing the viola da gamba — it was a fine reproduction of a fifteenth-century instrument and worth thousands of dollars — and they were not happy about losing their car, but those were trifling concerns compared with how they felt about losing their dog.

Source: www.susanorlean.com