To think there should be rules about taking certain things on trains?

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We have just got onto the train and there is a man with a very large animal carrier ( roughly the size of a washing machine) which is full if ferrets!

And when I say full, I mean there has got to be two dozen of the things in there.

And it STINKS.

The entire train carriage stinks of ferret fecies and urine, and the train is full to the point of people standing.

I have heard several people complain to the conductor, but apparently there is no room for the man and his ferrets to stand in the bike area as it is full of bikes and people with pushchairs.

He has the carrier on top of one of the tables!!

AIBU to think there should be rules against bringing something that stinks to high heaven onto a busy train?
Not to mention how distressed the poor ferrets seem.

'Can we also ban small children with ipads watching crappy disney films full blast'

This. Most definitely this

There are some rules i think. I once nearly had to take a parrot on a train. I googled and i was indeed allowed to.

You should be thanking all that is holy it wasnt a durian to be honest.

www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/nrcc/NRCOC.pdf

Appendix B at the end tells you what you can take, how big it should be, etc.

Until now I never knew that there were actual luggage restrictions for travelling by train - defined both my number and size!

The ferrets did not have a bank account. They were definitely ferrets; Ferret Lady liked to tell me ALL about them.

People who insist on putting their bags on the seats when the train is packed! Had to stand with my ds last week as a businesswoman had her laptop bag taking up a seat and her mini suitcase in the foot area of the seat next to her, I understand if theres something important in there but she was sat next to the bloody luggage shelves!

Did you say to her' I'd like to sit down please, so can you move your bags?'
I do the teacher voice when I ask, and I've never had a person say no.

You should have told her to move it youshouldbedancing

Yes asked her, although in hindsight wasn't stern enough (if that's the right word) she said she couldn't move her bag as she had valuables in there
If the train is not so full I understand but when it's packed it's so frustrating, it's not the first time I've seen someone do it either

I let encouraged my ds do some delightful singing all the way home, serve her right
Who knew the wheels on the train had so many verses!

I spoke to another traveler who has been on the train for ove two hours and she said the man and his ferrets go on at the stop after she did. (and then I was on the train for a further 40 minutes)
That is a long journey for a box of ferrets.

It was very warm so I guess the smell was made worse by the heat, but it was very bad, there were people holding things over their faces.

Dirians smell awful, yes, but they taste like peaches and creammmmm.

*Durians

That is really weird because smell and taste are so closely linked in your 'taste experience' of food, that I would have hardly thought that was possible. For example, if you are blindfolded and simultaneously offered a piece of pear to smell and a piece of apple to eat, it is very hard to know whether you are eating apple or pear. And apparently (not personally tested this) you can't tell the difference between red and white wine, if you are blindfolded and your nose is blocked.

Anyhoo. Sorry for the tangent. The moral of the story is, ummm, lucky you don't have to eat the smelly ferrets?

I like seeing sights like that when i am travelling.

A lad by me had a Harris Hawk that he used to take on the bus, they stopped him from doing it, everyone took part in a petition but Arriva wouldn't budge over it.

The clue is in the name, public transport, which includes hobby/work items/pets.

I've no doubt people without kids feeling the same about our dcs when they're bawling and crying and screaming and being naughty. Yabu. Don't like your fellow passengers? Get a car!

I think we can conclude that we should probably not eat ferrets as they are likely to (though may not definitely) taste bad.

Rather ferrets than the braying twat that kept saying 'wowzers' all the way from London to Newcastle yesterday.

ferrets, chicken, goats...meh? they all need transporting
not spent any time in Africa or Asia OP?

YABU
I once took 5 Guinea pigs from London to reading. They loved it, spent the whole squealing happily every time the tannoy made an announcement

My dog went on a train for the first time in Saturday. He'd just completed a 20 mile charity walk and had to get the train back to the car (with dh!)

We were worried folk might be annoyed by him as he's quite big (weimaraner) but he got loads of nice attention and the conductor gave him a cheese sandwich.

He just stood in the middle bit though, he didn't take up a seat!

Oh and ps there are rules about animals in trains as I looked them up. As long as the animals are not a nuisance and are appropriately restrained they can travel.

How do you know they are ferrets? The might be stoats or mink, or weasels.

Can I please tell my stoat and weasel joke now?

go on frontpaw