Olivia Underwood

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to a call on Saturday afternoon regarding a dog that reportedly died outside due to extreme heat. Officers were dispatched around 2 p.m. to the 6800 block of Frances Celia Avenue near South Broadbent Boulevard.

"He slowly died because he was pacing back and forth, trying to get out of the kennel," one neighbor said. Neighbors said they called Animal Control around noon Saturday after seeing a French bulldog outside alone in a crate with little shade and no water.

"They asked me if the dog was in distress. I said no, it's not, but it's panting very heavily, and right now there is still a little shade that he could be in, but pretty soon it's going to get hotter and he will not have any shade at all," she said. It was more than 100 degrees outside at the time, with an Extreme Heat Warning in effect.

She says that while waiting for Animal Control and on the phone with a dog rescue group, the dog passed out in the crate. "He was slowly losing his breath, and then he started having a seizure; he then died and stopped moving; within an hour since the first time I called the animal rescue, the dog died."

She says she feared going outside because she was alone and was afraid the dog's owners, who are new neighbors, would retaliate against her. The woman said she alerted other neighbors, who went into the backyard and tried to rescue the dog. "The lady (the dog's owner) finally came out and started yelling and screaming at me asking why I was filming, she said she was going to sue me because I was filming her backyard, but it took her awhile to come outside to realize that there is people in her backyard and crying for her dog because her dog is dead, never once did she came and hold the dog and see if the dog was alive or not."

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed officers responded to a call on Saturday afternoon regarding a dog that reportedly died outside due to extreme heat. "The neighbor who is the owner told us the dog suffers from seizures and it hurt me because I suffer from seizures and I carry my ice pack all the time because if I get too hot I get a seizure, but I believe wholeheartedly that that dog died because of the heat and because of neglect," another neighbor said.

Metro police said Animal Control was called to the scene to take over the investigation.

A detective who was leaving the home told News 3 that the owner, Olivia Underwood was arrested on a felony charge of Animal Cruelty.