Black Lab Likes to Take Solo Bus Ride

Kansas City Star ^ | 1-13-15 | AP

[yldstrk]

A black Labrador named Eclipse just wants to get to the dog park. So if her owner takes too long finishing his cigarette, and their bus arrives, she climbs aboard solo and rides to her stop – to the delight of fellow Seattle bus passengers. KOMO-TV reports that local radio host Miles Montgomery was amazed to see the pooch get off the bus, without an owner, at a dog park last week. The dog and her owner, Jeff Young, live right near a bus stop. In Young’s words, “She’s a bus-riding, sidewalk-walking dog.” Young says his dog sometimes gets on the bus without him, and he catches up with her at the dog park three or four stops away. Bus riders report she hops onto seats next to strangers, and watches out the window for her stop. Says commuter Tiona Rainwater, “All the bus drivers know her … she makes everybody happy.” A Metro Transit spokesman says the agency loves that a dog appreciates public transit.

[defconw]

LOL, to bad she could not got to school.

[9YearLurker]

Maybe it’s free for anyone less than 3 ft tall.

[Fresh Wind]

Warning if you click on the link...

After the doggie video ends, an Obama video takes over!

Be sure to close the window promptly.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

Sounds like our local UPS driver. We had a pair of Labs that would scale a 5' fence every day and go off *wandering*....when the UPS driver found them a couple of miles away, down in town....he'd coax them into the truck with a biscuit and brings them back home to us. It was a routine...and the hounds *loved* it.

I fear a follow-up to this story will have the bus route driver losing his job over this breach of company policy. No good deed....

[defconw]

I am afraid of that as well some busy body or muslim will complain. I am also very afraid that my Lab will not stay in the yard. We are working on it. She can't go wandering. Ranchers don't like dogs wandering on their property. Sad world we live in.

[McGruff]

Who passed gas? Not me.

[yldstrk]

lol

[Daffynition]

We’ve been Lab owners for decades. We have found that males are more prone to wanderlust than females.

I know that doesn’t help any. Good luck with your pup!

[defconw]

No, that helps. She vacillates between wanting to literally be on top of me and running off. She comes home before to long when she does get loose.

[Daffynition]

FReepmail for ya.

[defconw]

Got it! Thanks.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

[defconw]

I’ll check them when I get home. My work browser is not working.

[BigEdLB]

Knows all the best burger joints too, no doubt.

[AnAmericanMother]

Teach her "heel" and transfer it to the 4W.

Once my Lab got "heel" she would heel 5 feet off my left stirrup when we were trail riding. She loved going along. My mare was a solid citizen who wouldn't kick, even when the hounds ran under her belly during a fox hunt.

[AnAmericanMother]

St Barths?

[AnAmericanMother]

What a great story! Dogs do sometimes attach themselves to locations.

[defconw]

Good idea. She’s still not a good heeler. Mine and natures fault. We literally live up a hill and it’s been so cold and icy here that I can’t get her out where I will be safe to work on her manners. Soon though.