Transport for London is refusing to take down a social media video which encourages owners to take their cats on the tube network. The unhinged Instagram video shows two owners taking their cats on an escalator, in a lift and on a train, with the slogan: ‘This is your sign to start travelling with your pet around London.’

It’s true that most dogs emerge from flights unscathed but what sort of owner wants to even risk it?

The charity Cats Protection asked TfL to take down the video, complaining that it’s ‘apparently normalising’ taking cats on the underground. ‘Busy stations and crowded Underground platforms with loud and sudden noises’ should be ‘off limits for cats’, a spokesperson said.

You’d think so, wouldn’t you, but then people already take their pets on planes. Holidays are usual

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