--- title: Dog takes bus to park to meet her owner description: Owners: who needs 'em? canonical: https://time.com/3666142/dog-takes-bus-to-park/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-13T21:50:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:55.428Z og:title: Super Chill Dog Takes the Bus to Meet Her Owner at the Dog Park og:description: Owners: who needs 'em? og:url: https://time.com/3666142/dog-takes-bus-to-park/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Super Chill Dog Takes the Bus to Meet Her Owner at the Dog Park twitter:description: Owners: who needs 'em? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Super Chill Dog Takes the Bus to Meet Her Owner at the Dog Park > Sponsored content. 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She gets on in front of her house and she gets off at the dog park, three or four stops later.” No word on how she pays the fare with her cute little paws. Since Lassie, Benji and Milo and Otis have helped pave the way for such precocious canine behavior, neither the dog, the owner, the bus driver, nor the other commuters seem to view the pup’s behavior as anything but adorable. “All the bus drivers know her. She sits here just like a person does,” commuter Tiona Rainwater, told KOMO. “She makes everybody happy. How could you not love this thing?” A spokesman for Seattle’s Metro Transit said the agency loves that a dog appreciates public transit. While Eclipse is apparently capable of riding the streets of Seattle alone, helpful Seattleites frequently stop the dog on her travels. Young told KOMO that he gets a phone call once a week or so from good Samaritans anxious to help reunite a lost dog with its owner: “I have to tell them, ‘no. She’s fine.’ She knows what she’s doing.” Lassie probably never had to put up with that. \[H/T [KOMO News](www.komonews.com/news/local/Seattle-dogs-rush-hour-ride-on-the-bus-by-herself-weekly-288345081.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3666142/dog-takes-bus-to-park/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3666142/dog-takes-bus-to-park/"},"headline":"Super Chill Dog Takes the Bus to Meet Her Owner at the Dog Park","datePublished":"2015-01-13T21:50:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:55.428Z","description":"Owners: who needs 'em?","url":"https://time.com/3666142/dog-takes-bus-to-park/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","Pets","Seattle"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3666142/dog-takes-bus-to-park/","name":"Super Chill Dog Takes the Bus to Meet Her Owner at the Dog Park"}}]}] ```