Illegal train journey (don’t tell the Irish)

As a travelling dog I like to get around by train, especially as this is good for the environment being green conscious and all. So on my recent holiday to Ireland I decided that I would go to Dublin by train.

The humans that I was with bought their tickets and then we went on to the platform. One of them jokingly said to one of the train staff that she assumed that dogs were allowed on trains (and why not!), but apparently they are not… (No bikes either!). The guy was very friendly and said that seeing I was such a nice looking dog he didn’t think that it was a problem, but best to get off a couple of stops before the main station so as not to attract attention.

We spent the day walking around Dublin and had picnic in a park. Surprisingly not many dogs in Dublin so this meant that I got  a lot of attention as I seemed to be a novelty. Then when we were all worn out, we plodded back to the station to get the train home. I climbed up the stairs, and waited for the human to get the gates to work so we could go on the platform, when all of a sudden a mean person came over and prevented me from entering the station. He said “no dogs allowed!”. I was like, “how am I going to get home…”, my tail drooped and I hung my head. This didn’t work and he kicked us out of the station…

Not being particularly willing to spend the night sleeping rough in Dublin, our plan of action was to walk down to the next station on the line and have another attempt at getting on the train. We climbed up more stairs and then hung around like criminals just at the edge to see what the staff were up to . When it looked like the coast was clear we went up to the barriers and attempted to get through. One human got through… Unfortunately the human looking after me panicked and couldn’t get the barriers to work. The man at the ticket desk looked up to see what was happening, and apparently in an effort to keep things moving, automatically opened the barriers and we all got through!

Phew! Safely home and snuck in right under their very noses! I hope the Irish train people don’t find out. But of course I was very well behaved on the train and I don’t understand what their problem was…

Woof!