So, I was sitting in my seat on the Airbus 319, minding my own business, when out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw the passenger across the aisle petting his luggage.

Seemed a little weird. I like my luggage too, but I've never felt the need to physically express the feelings I have for it. If I ever did want to engage in some light flirting with my luggage, I certainly wouldn't do it in public.

Then, a few minutes later while I was knee-deep in a philosophical discussion with myself on the subject of where people should draw the line when it comes to relationships with their luggage, I saw something that greatly interested me.

I typically try to give people around me the privacy they deserve, but I found myself staring at my fellow passenger. What I saw immediately put my oxygen-starved brain into a state of the utmost befuddlement (they only compress those cabins to about 7,000 feet, so the air is pretty thin - I think my IQ takes a ding when I get on planes, and that it might sometimes get as low as 180 or 190).

After staring for a while, it dawned on me that this was something worthy of a photograph. This is what I got:

Yeah. That's a puppy in that guy's carry-on luggage.

Is this legal? If not, then how in the hell did he manage to do this? I mean, you can't take the world's smallest (and junkiest) Swiss Army knife (glorified can opener) on a plane, but you can get a living mammal through security without a problem.

Maybe this is perfectly normal and I've just never seen it before because I don't travel as often as I'd like. It just seems to me that if it were "okee-dokee," the dog wouldn't have to be sitting inside a Samsonite tote bag.

Anyway, Mr. Dog-Owner, I hope you like puppy urine with your suitcases, 'cause your dog's eyes really lit up during takeoff...