HE'S A WELL TRAINED POOCH
Everyone off! Subway dog rescued
The MTA took an entire No. 6 train out of service during rush hour Tuesday morning after finding an abandoned pooch on board, officials said.
The poodle-mix pup, dubbed “Waltz” by the Animal Care Centers of NYC, was discovered on the Manhattan-bound train at the Third Avenue-138th Street station in The Bronx at around 8 a.m., according to an MTA spokesperson.
“He’s friendly with strangers,” an ACC spokeswoman told the Web site DNAinfo.
Rather than corral the animal, authorities proceeded to kick all of the passengers off the train except for the poor little pup.
The conductor then reversed back to the rail yard at Westchester Square. The MTA notified the NYPD, which handed Waltz over to the ACC.
Despite the poodle pandemonium, the agency said delays lasted for only 10 minutes.
Still, knowing that a dog was abandoned on a subway left straphangers on edge Tuesday night.
“The whole train is dangerous. Every day is a new story,” said Isabel Seearra, a 75-year-old homemaker who lives near the Third Avenue-138th Street station.
“The mayor should do something. Poodles can be dangerous,” she said. “Usually poodles are fine, but it is ridiculous. Other dogs are big, dangerous and scary. Makes sense to stop the subway.”
Officials at the ACC told the Web site that Waltz will be put up for adoption if no one claims him in the next 72 hours.
This wasn’t the first time a dog was saved on a subway line.
In 2014, an MTA worker found a lost pup shivering and covered in soot in the Bronx subway.
Delta, an adorable Shih Tzupoodle mix, startled a group of track workers who found her tucked into a dark corner of an emergency exit near the Fordham Road station.
One of the workers, Charles Gaston, fell in love with the pooch and adopted her on the spot.
Gaston said he and his co-workers took the filthy, matted animal back to their quarters and had to bathe her two or three times before she even started to resemble a normal dog.
In April 2014, a pooch trotted ahead of a Metro-North train all the way from The Bronx to Manhattan after the engineer, who adores dogs, drove slowly to avoid her.
Two MTA cops and a MetroNorth station agent then helped the dog get safely off the tracks at the 125th Street station as about a hundred passengers cheered on the platform.