SINGAPORE — A professional dog trainer who accidentally left a client’s two French bulldogs in the boot of her hatchback car for about 1.5 hours, leading to their deaths from heat stress, was fined S$8,000 on Wednesday (June 1).

Sabrina Sim Xin Huey was distracted by a social media post about a former customer’s dog being bitten by another canine at the time of the incident.