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OTTAWA — A former Kemptville, Ont., Walmart employee says she was fired Wednesday for caring about animals.

About half an hour before her shift began, Carla Cheney, a pharmacy technician at the store, watched a Newfoundlander dog jump out of a truck window twice before a man put the dog back in the vehicle and rolled up the windows.

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Upset, she confronted the man.

“I said he should not be leaving his dog in the car. The man said it was none of my business.”

Customers leave pets in vehicles almost every day, Cheney said. Last week she was outside the store with her manager and another employee when they witnessed a woman leaving her dog in a car.

“I was pretty upset and I said to my manager, ‘What do I do?’ He said it was none of our business and went into the store.”

Concerned, Cheney called the police, who came and spoke with the woman.

Part way through her shift Wednesday, Cheney was called to the office and told she was being terminated for being rude to a customer. She was then escorted from the building.