you have nothing better to do?

as i was walking out of the pacific street train station in brooklyn on friday, i oversaw two cops giving a woman a ticket for bringing her dog on the subway!

now the dog was tiny! looked pretty much like this:



was it really that serious for the cops to be stressing over some little lap dog? i don't think so! one cop was writing the ticket out and the other was using an MTA rules and regulations pamphlet to point out exactly what the dog owner was doing wrong.

this just made me so mad! i take millie on the subways sometimes and david is always on the subway and LIRR with tut.


relaxing on the LIRR on the way to david's

i looked up the rules and regulations for myself!

section 1050.9
H. 1. No person may bring any animal on or into any conveyance or facility unless enclosed in a container and carried in a manner which would not annoy other passengers.

first of all, what the hell is a "container"? should you put your dog in tupperware??
whatever. i am going to continue to brings mills on the train, tucked away in her ikea canvas bag!


this was after a long walk along the hudson.

anyways, she acts better on the subway that a majority of the normal passengers:

she doesn't talk really loud and bother people

she doesn't eat stinky chinese food or chicken wings and then leave the nasty containers under the seat or eat nuts and drops the shells all over the floor.

she doesn't stink up entire subway cars with the worst body odor ever so that they are completely unusable, making people flee to another car at the next stop.

i think the people who actually do all of the above things are actually the ones who "annoy other passengers."

that being said, i think that dog's are probably the model subway passenger!

read about other people's tips and "tails" about bringing dogs on the subway here on the urban hound!