'Everywhere that a baby goes, dogs should be allowed, too'

"Why do we put human lives ahead of dog lives?"

A devoted dog mum has ruffled fur online with her wild take on pups in public.

She believes dogs should be allowed everywhere babies can go.

A clip of her speaking on the topic was posted to Subway Takes, a social media account that interviews people on the New York subway about their unpopular opinions.

Host Kareem immediately shot her down.

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"You want to bring a f***ing pitbull to a film?"

“Absolutely not. Dogs belong outside,” Kareem declared.

But the pup parent doubled down, her chihuahua, Pigeon, perched on her lap like royalty.

“Restaurants, movie theatres, airplanes, hotels— all the things,” she said. 

Image: Instagram/Subway Takes

The host clearly thought she was barking mad. 

“Movie theatres? You want to bring a f***ing pitbull to a film?” he asked, incredulous.

But Pigeon, it turns out, is no stranger to the cinema.  

“Pigeon saw Knives Out in theatre with me,” she revealed, pointing proudly at the pint-sized cinephile.

Kareem admitted her dog was an exception—“a beautiful creature”—but he still wasn’t sold on her broader argument.

The woman’s dog-friendly vision extends to culinary experiences:

"If babies can go, why can’t dogs?

“When you go out to dinner and hear babies screaming, crying, throwing things on the ground, you should consider if a dog should be allowed there too."

And dogs, she argued, aren’t just quiet dinner guests—they’re helpful.

“Dogs can clean up the mess that a baby leaves,” she suggested, completely serious. 

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"Dehumanisation of babies"

In her world, no door should remain closed off to Pigeon. 

When she takes him shopping, he rides in the trolley with a coat to cushion his bottom— wouldn't want him to be uncomfortable now, would we?

Kareem, still struggling to digest her stance, threw out another scenario.

“What if you had a golden retriever in the dentist’s office? That sounds to me like an occupational hazard, because those things are dumb and big,” Kareem argues.

She conceded there might need to be some boundaries.

“The law with dogs coming places—when I’m mayor—it will have nuance to it,” she joked.

“We’ll workshop it.”

The comment section came to the debate like a dog to a bone (sorry, had to do it).

“The dehumanisation of babies and children has been one of the weirder trends on the internet in the past few years,” one viewer wrote.

“Babies should be allowed to go everywhere that dogs go,” another argued.

“People aren’t allergic to babies,” a third pointed out. 

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But perhaps the most controversial question posed in the almost two-minute clip was by the woman herself:

“Should we put human lives ahead of dog lives?”

(Note: the law already does.)

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Originally published as 'Everywhere that a baby goes, dogs should be allowed, too'