Stray Dogs in Moscow Master the Subway 27
Biology professor Andrew Poyarkov thinks that stray dogs in Moscow have learned to use the subway to get around the city. He thinks they are using the rails in the morning to get to the center of town were food is more plentiful before returning to where they live each evening. "They do not just go to the subway station, they actually board the trains. They seem to have learned how long they need to stay on the train to leave at the right station. Sometimes they fall asleep and miss their stop. Then they get off take another train back to the center," he says.
Bamse (Score:4, Informative)
Sounds similar to the story of Bamse [wikipedia.org], the Norwegian navy dog who learned to use the bus network in Scotland to round up the seamen from various pubs when they were due to set sail. There was also a Labrador that learnt to use taxi ranks in London a few decades ago - its owner used to take it on long walks and return by taxi. Eventually he stopped due to ill health, but the dog would carry on with the walks, patiently wait at a taxi rank until one of the drivers noticed and took him home.