What animal is in the waiting for the interurban?

Answer 1

From an article by Bruce Ramsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter on October 10, 1996: The face is a relic of a dispute between sculptor Richard Beyer and aluminum recycler Armen Stepanian, the one-time honorary mayor of Fremont. Both were on a Fremont Arts Council committee to choose a sculptor. When nobody applied, recalls Fremont artist Roger Wheeler, Beyer chose himself. Stepanian objected. "He didn't think it was an appropriate piece, he didn't think it would look good there, and he didn't think that the chairman of the committee to pick an artist should pick himself," Wheeler says. Stung by the attack, Beyer had the last word: He put Stepanian's face on the dog.