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You may have thought you’d heard it all, but you’d be wrong. Eclipse, the Seattle dog known for riding a city bus herself, died recently. The news was posted on her owner-run Facebook account. 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. King County Metro, the area transit service, embraced its iconic passenger, even making a music video in 2015, which was called “Eclipse the Bus Riding Dog’s Day Off in Seattle.” King County Metro paid tribute to the dog on its Twitter page, posting an image of her and the note, "Eclipse was a super sweet, world-famous, bus riding dog and true Seattle icon. You brought joy and happiness to everyone and showed us all that good dogs belong on the bus."
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