My Dog’s Party Trick: Pooping Mid-Step

Tito’s efficient time management trick; why waste time to poop when you can poop mid-stride on route to the dog park?

Taco on the left with Tito on the right photo by Corinne Davis

Have you ever in your life been so excited stopping to relieve yourself wasn’t an option? Only once in my whole 30 something years I consciously chose the 45 minute wait to ride Disneyland’s Splash Mountain was worth peeing my pants because leaving the line wasn’t a viable solution. Tito’s poop-walk is the same unashamed train of thought I had as a ten year old when I remained standing in line like nothing was out of the ordinary and peed my pants. Although he makes pee stops along the way to leave his mark, pooping is just a nuisance, and there’s no time for that if there’s fun to be had.

I assumed Tito was poo-shy because he seldomly drops one whilst on our walks and figured he avoided pooping in public. Pooping is a waste of time for this little dog, and not even the satisfying relief from reducing a load motivates a stop and squat. Whilst his 10lbs/7kg doesn’t wield much strength, he tries to hurry Taco and I by pulling on his leash and charging ahead as fast as his short, stubby legs will go. When he does make a pitstop to pee on a bush, tree, fence, and the typical fire hydrant, he immediately takes off in a sprint to make up for the lost time.