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douglas9

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Tue Oct 18, 2022, 08:57 AM Oct 2022

Eclipse the dog, known for riding the bus in Seattle alone to the dog park, has died

Eclipse, the Seattle dog known for riding a city bus herself, died on Friday. The news was posted on her owner-run Facebook account.

She was 10 years old and died in her sleep, according to the account. Prior posts shared that she had been diagnosed with cancerous tumors.

Eclipse gained attention in 2015 when she began to take the bus alone. Her owner, Jeff Young, says the two of them would regularly take the bus to visit their local Belltown Dog Park. One day, he was still smoking a cigarette when the bus arrived — so, she boarded without him.

Within weeks, the black lab-bullmastiff mix was a consistent commuter in her signature red harness. Bus drivers recognized her and she knew her stop by looking out the window, her fellow passengers told Seattle's KOMO News in 2015.

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/10/16/eclipse-the-dog-known-for-riding-the-bus-alone-to-the-dog-park-has-died/#:~:text=Eclipse,%20the%20Seattle%20dog%20known,been%20diagnosed%20with%20cancerous%20tumors.

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Eclipse the dog, known for riding the bus in Seattle alone to the dog park, has died (Original Post) douglas9 Oct 2022 OP
Lady of the Beasts, please take Your little Eclipse gently home in Your loving arms, and niyad Oct 2022 #1
... Me. Oct 2022 #2

niyad

(113,314 posts)
1. Lady of the Beasts, please take Your little Eclipse gently home in Your loving arms, and
Tue Oct 18, 2022, 09:01 AM
Oct 2022

send peace and comfort to her grieving loved ones.

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