Cruel Nicholas Foreman, 58, locked pooches Penny and Zoe in the back seat of his red Kia for up to two-and-a-half hours.
The dogs roasted in the 29C weather – although it was "dramatically" hotter inside the car, which had been left in a car park with no shade.
Penny, two, and three-year-old Zoe were left panting and concerned bystanders tried squeezing water through a crack in the window in a desperate bid to help them.
They were eventually freed by RSPCA Inspector Alice Cooper and two police officers, who smashed a window to let the dogs out.
Foreman admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the dogs on June 25 by “confining them in an environment detrimental to their wellbeing”.
He was banned from keeping dogs for five years and was given a 12-month conditional discharge, including 150 hours of unpaid work, plus £300 court costs and an £85 surcharge.
The court in York heard how Foreman could have parked in the hospital multi-storey while taking his obese wife for a check-up but instead chose a free disabled bay outside.
The computer programmer claimed he had planned to come out and check on the dogs but stayed with his wife as she was anxious.
But his terrified dogs were left "panting and pacing" and "barking aggressively" towards well-wishers outside York General Hospital.
PC Daniel Kirven managed to shatter a window using his baton and was "struggling to breath" himself in the scorching weather.
He managed to coax Zoe and Penny out of the car, who were packed in ice before being rushed to the vet for emergency treatment for heat stroke and dehydration.
Philip Brown, for the RSPCA, said: "Dogs are susceptible to heat stroke and the consequences can be fatal. They cannot sweat through their pores like humans can and have a coat.
"Their only form of heat regulation in fact is to pant."
Foreman claimed he had only brought the dogs with him because the younger pup misbehaved if left alone at home.
There was a dispute about how long the pets had been left for – with the parking permit showing he had parked up at 12.30 and the police showed up at 4pm.
But Foreman's lawyer Pippa Carruthers insisted he had arrived at 3.30pm – meaning they would have been left for 30 minutes.
She said: "He is sickened by the effects of his actions on that day. It is, of course, a very concerning case – but the dogs did recover.
"This is a horrible set of facts that puts you in the mind of what the dogs must have felt like that day. He had raised them from puppies and they were very much part of the family."
The dogs are now being cared for by the RSPCA, which is trying to rehome them as a pair.
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