I suspect she made up the idea that one of them had nosed the AC off, although I can see an active paw (while climbing around) could have done it. But, no proof, no crime. The cosmic punishment was adequate. (I
can see the engine overheating and shutting down in a long idle with the A/C on, but this wasn't part of the report.)
We moved out to Colorado with three cats in a Greenbrier van* (no A/C) and were well aware of that problem even though there wasn't that much "publicity" about it back then (early 1960s). We were real careful about that even though it was late August and we were in Canada. We'd park in the shade when shopping or a quick meal was involved, with the windows all cracked open.
It seemed like the anxiety about it went from zero to "we'd better check on them" at twenty minutes, half hour. One time we came back to see some people looking in the van at the fuzzies. They all had tagged harnesses on throughout the trip so we could sort of walk them like dogs.
I feel bad for her and the animals, but holy *expletive deleted*it, yang happens to all of us and
from her statement, she took adequate precautions. We can each only hope that enough ying happens to balance things out overall.
Terry, 230RN
* Sort of a rich hippie's VW bus. Ours was all white.