I recently flew out of ALB with EB A-28 hoping that I had a small chance for an exit row. While standing in line the GA called out a woman with a small dog - she was in the A-50's - and let her board. When I boarded, I saw she was seated in an exit row and as the other exit rows were filled, I took a seat a few rows in front of her. Now I didn't actually see the dog in her lap, but if it was, should they have allowed that? If it wasn't in her lap, where the hell was it? Also, how come they let her board first? On a sidenote, of all the times I have flown SWA, I have never seen a dog and then coming back from TPA there were two passenger's with dogs. I must say I didn't hear a peep out of them.