Ever since NYC passed the law that banned dogs on the subway unless they fit in a bag, people have been coming up with creative ways to transport their pups, such as, placing a giant IKEA bag around the bigger doggos.
Now, there's an Instagram account dedicated to all the dogs, in bags, in NYC.
Sometimes, humankind just makes us smile. This is one of those times.
A few days ago, the Instagram account @SubwayCreatures shared a video of a rat bumping and grinding on the poles of a Manhattan train and took the internet by a storm. The internet quickly dubbed this critter as the "Pole Dancing Rat'. But on this funny page, you can find so many more videos of funny animals riding the train and here are some of their latest. We just can't stop laughing.
Joel Sielgel's (@joelmsiegel) photo of a "farebeating bust" got the attention of NYPD Transit as well as the people on twitter.
The Los Angeles-based artist ,Matthew Grabelsky, sees NYC AS a big cageless zoo. Using the New York City subway system as the setting for his work, Grabelsky paints surreal portraits of people who are seemingly normal from the neck down, but who have had their heads replaced by animals, both wild and domesticated. For more, check out his instagram page.
Usually people are jerks about this sort of thing, but so far most of the comments we've seen online have been positive!
If you want to know more about PETA's Tube Ad Takeover, click here.
Oh, and remember when an ad agency did this same thing, but with pictures of cats? That was awesome.
Since their rescue last week from under the electrified third rail of an above-ground express track in Brooklyn, the gray-striped and black kitties have found themselves the stars of Steven Liu's website, Scratching Pad.
Read kittens August and Arthur's entire update on People Pets.
Two kittens ran onto subway tracks in Brooklyn, and the MTA halted trains for about an hour as workers tried to corral the felines, witnesses and officials said. MTA also shut off power to the area so workers could go down and try to coax the kittens into carrying cases.
It wasn't known if the kittens were strays or pets.
Read the full NBC New York coverage Here.
