“We get separated,” explained Young. “She gets on the bus without me, and I catch up with her at the dog park. It’s not hard to get on. She gets on in front of her house and she gets off at the dog park, three or four stops later.”

“She’s been here the last two years, so she’s been urbanized, totally,” the dog owner continued. “She’s a bus-riding, sidewalk-walking dog. Probably once a week I get a phone call, ‘Hi. I have your dog Eclipse here on 3rd and Bell.’ I have to tell them, ‘No, she’s fine.’ She knows what she’s doing.”

Bus customers, unsurprisingly, have been pleasantly shocked by the canine’s skill.

“It doesn’t really appear to have an owner,” said Miles Montgomery, a local radio host who rode the bus last week with Eclipse. “The dog gets off at the dog park. I just look out the window and I’m like, ‘did that just happen?'”

“She was most concerned about seeing out the window, and I couldn’t figure out what that was,” added Montgomery. “It was really just about seeing where her stop was.”

“All the bus drivers know her,” said bus rider Tiona Rainwater. “She sits here just like a person does. She makes everybody happy. How could you not love this thing?”

Metro Transit in Seattle isn’t mad about the smart pooch either, though a spokesman joked of Eclipse, “She would be much safer in the world if she had her owner on a leash.”