I find the part I italicized equally made-up sounding. I seriously doubt that there would be 2-4 more people on every single train that Amtrak runs if pets were allowed. Of course, if the poster has any evidence to back the claim up, I stand ready to be corrected.
I really need my human remains in coach with me.
Maybe the danged animal and its human like to share the sort of affection depicted in the image in your signature.
Right, a pet car designation would stay with a given physical coach car in a way that a quiet car designation doesn't. And it ought to be on the end of the train, which would have to mean the back of the train on the Superliner trains if you don't want passengers wandering through the crew only part of the transdorm.
Yeah, but then they are considered sick.
I assume you're joking but in case you're not: In my experience, young cats can be left alone for longer periods than dogs. With my 2 dogs I would come back to a home that smelled like a barnyard. Pet sitters and neighbors can't read the "cues" like owners so it would be inevitable. We did travel with a cat for a summer and at 20 years old he was content to sit still for the entire ride. He could have endured a train ride. The dogs would be a handful and one would be howling at every horn blow.
Thank you for a rare treat...I wondered 'where is this "Port Costa"?', so I googlemapped it, and about a half-mile (north)west of it, in the satellite image, is what I would guess is a CC train (perhaps just having dropped a smoker there). :lol: link.
Fellow Guest Guest,
Well, since this thread has resurfaced, I'll affirm what Guest said above several months ago. My two six-year-old cats traveled excellently by automobile from Philadelphia to Lynchburg to Las Vegas, and back so far to Lynchburg. Quiet, polite passengers. They were fine for ten hours at a stretch in small carriers between hotel rooms (which is to say, ten hours at a stretch without food, water, or litter) several days in a row. I gave them the option to wander around in the car, but after a quick exploration they settled back into their carriers with their security blankets. (Well, actually, despite the smallness of the carriers, both cats preferred to cuddle together in one!) Cats are very sturdy, relatively not-needy creatures.
The conductor said he'd never had cats as passengers before, but was very happy to take them aboard.
I recall on a trip on the Southwest Chief a few years back a man had one of those little yapper dogs with him on the train. This one didn't yap and was very well trained. I don't know the nature of the man's disability, though he wasn't blind. He may well have been prone to seizures and this one was trained to detect them. At any rate, it was good to see one of those little annoying dogs being useful, for a pleasant change.
A few years back we used to go to a local club and bring my Macaw every once in a while. We take him camping, too as long as it's too cool at night. He seems to enjoy all the attention he gets. But on a train, that's very confined space and if he starts squawking, everyone will know he's there!I recall on a trip on the Southwest Chief a few years back a man had one of those little yapper dogs with him on the train. This one didn't yap and was very well trained. I don't know the nature of the man's disability, though he wasn't blind. He may well have been prone to seizures and this one was trained to detect them. At any rate, it was good to see one of those little annoying dogs being useful, for a pleasant change.
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As a side note, I lost a companion dog several years ago. She was a "bar dog". we would pull up to the lounge. she would jump out and nose the door open and run behind the bar and "worship" the slim jim rack. This dog was a wonderful dog, didn't make a sound unless her tail got caught in the door type of dog. Everyone in the bar was very fond of Agnes and if she wasn't with me, I had to go home and get her
Over several years only one new person to the bar objected and would mutter ugly remarks and quote local law so I went home and put a lesh on her, put sunglasses on and brought a cane.
It was worth free drinks all night because the jerk ( who no one liked ) knew he was beat and found a new place to drink.
The place I drink now has at least 3 dogs that visit as well as one of those HUGE parrots and no one complains.
