Skeezix
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People have small dogs on flights. It will be fine.
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People have small dogs on flights. It will be fine.
nfitz
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And yet I've never been on a plane, and seen a dog sitting on a seat, leaving hair everywhere.
Livestock should be caged.
Skeezix
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TOareaFan
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the standard airline policy for dogs is that they be in a compliant carrier and stowed under the seat. Which is remarkably like the old GO transit policy that this new policy replaces (in other words, animals in cages/carriers were always allowed on GO....but now we are experimenting with a more "free" form of train travel for them during off peak).
Skeezix
Senior Member
My reference to it was in response to the fears of dogs releasing their bowels and bladders theoretically on a VIA, not as a argument in relation to the recent GO policy change.
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nfitz
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You've never seen dogs sitting on TTC seats? I see it frequently. Operators do nothing.
Worse is when you try and sit down, and you realize the seat is covered with dog fur. This wasn't a problem when dogs were simply banned. The answer then is to require cages.
Skeezix
Senior Member
You've never seen dogs sitting on TTC seats? I see it frequently. Operators do nothing.
Worse is when you try and sit down, and you realize the seat is covered with dog fur. This wasn't a problem when dogs were simply banned. The answer then is to require cages.
Or just don't sit there.
I have far more issues with people not wanting to move bags, or leaving food crumbs over seats, that dog hair issues. But, admittedly, would like to cage those people too, so perhaps I am on board with your "bring back cages" campaign after all. They will be big enough for people, right?
Still confused by your concern over farm animals. But I love goats, so I am hoping the reference means that I get to see goats on the subway. That would be awesome.
APTA-2048
Senior Member
I hate to break it to you, but if dog fur gets you so worked up. You might not want to sit anywhere in public.
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MetroMan
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Thanks for this! I'm going to follow some of these tips verbatim. I'm planning on travel during the week when I have a slow day. Weekends are usually my prime time work days.
gabe
Senior Member
Dogs are better behaved then most children on the TTC. Public transit has taught me a lot about bad parenting.
nfitz
Superstar
It was the last available seat.
I've not once had someone not move a bag when I've politely asked - or simply pretended not to see it and started to sit down anyway. Crumbs brush off ...
Sure other stuff happens, but I don't think the answer to people clearly breaking simple rules is to say, sit somewhere else!
I'm humorously referring to that bizarre ad campaign on the TTC a few years ago, that made me realize that it's okay to eat dogs, and I shouldn't judge other cultures that do so. (not that I'd do so myself - someone who has eaten dog in a restaurant once described to me the taste as "wet dog" - which doesn't appeal to me; but who am I to judge?)
mdrejhon
Senior Member
Food debris and spilled drinks on seats are surprisingly common. Perfumed seats too. And food allergies are surprisingly common.
Washington Metro in the past used to be very strict about "no food" on their subway, with a large newspaper article I remember seeinf in my childhood about a woman sneaking a bite from a cookie, and being reprimanded by a Metro driver. In Toronto, I don't recall such strictness even for food or dogs on TTC.
That said, good responsibility should be exercised -- and not leave more unnecessary specks or molecules or atoms of any kind on a seat if you can help it -- whether it be crumbs, drink, perfume, dog, dirty backpack bottom, or whatever. (Above and beyond unavoidable incidentials like coat fabric fragments, laundry lint from your jeans, the occasional accidental dandruff flake, etc)
Washington Metro in the past used to be very strict about "no food" on their subway, with a large newspaper article I remember seeinf in my childhood about a woman sneaking a bite from a cookie, and being reprimanded by a Metro driver. In Toronto, I don't recall such strictness even for food or dogs on TTC.
That said, good responsibility should be exercised -- and not leave more unnecessary specks or molecules or atoms of any kind on a seat if you can help it -- whether it be crumbs, drink, perfume, dog, dirty backpack bottom, or whatever. (Above and beyond unavoidable incidentials like coat fabric fragments, laundry lint from your jeans, the occasional accidental dandruff flake, etc)
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