Why won't she just squat?

Ok, so this may have been covered before, so I appologize but I couldn't really turn up anything on a search that seemed meaningful.

Anyway, I've seen dogs who will just trot out to their spot, squat down and poo. Not Xena. She snifs around forever, then when she thinks she's near the correct spot, she starts to squat - but then she starts prancing sideways, frontways, backwards and really all over the place. She'll prance a bit, settle and I think she's gonna go, then she'll prance to another location. Somethimes this goes on for several minutes. I call it her "poppy dance". I swear she walks about 1/2 mile a day like that.

Is this just a neruosis that I'll have to live with? She seems to be able to pee wherever, she just needs to find that one special spot to poop (which is not always in the same place).

Bodhi is the same....

She has to find the perrrrfect spot to poo.

It can take time to find somewhere just right.

She's not going to waste her poop by just leaving it anywhere!

True, maybe she's looking for that last load. I've always got bags and pick it up when she's done. I can see her thought process. "I left a load here just yesterday, where the hell is it?"

Badnit won't for the life of him poop in public. He has to be in a bush hidden from view. Spanky will go anywhere. I think it's just her way of doing things. Just like people. Some people will only use their home bathroom, some will use public bathrooms and some will go outside. Just all depends really.

Be thankful. Charlie does the poopy dance WHILE he is pooping, so there is never just a pile, there is a trail.......

I had to laugh. I walk Xena when taking my 7 year old to the bus stop. She usually will poo while we are waiting for the bus. I then pick it up and she's sitting nicely when the bus pulls up and all of the kids cram to the windows to get a glimps of the doggy.

The other day, I had her up there and we were running late. She started the poopy dance while the bus was approaching. Just about 2 seconds after the bus stopped, she found her spot and started to go (butt facing the bus, of course). I could hear about 30 kids in unison go "GROSS!!!!" and start laughing. I offered to send the poop with them, but the driver said, "No".

Misty takes 2 minutes to figure out she has to go, she even runs a lab around the yard! Thank god I dunno why she does this rofl it's not like she's going for death row? ROFL

She does the circle as she squats

Kassie's a poowalker. She squats, poos and walks at the same time.

CM, I know this trail.....lol

ditto.

Izzy goes on command

Frodo goes wherever he is when the mood hits him

Mollie takes forever...then she will pick a spot and go some...I clean it up and we'll walk a few hundred yards and she'll decide she's not done...repeat. She does it out of spite I swear

Better watch the explicitives around the house, then.

PWCorgi stubbs her toe.

****!

:yikes: Clean up on aisle 3!

BTW, I appreciate all of the feedback. Sounds like my dog is fairly normal. She goes when she's darn good and ready.

Every morning Spanky is so full of himself that he squats, poops and runs at the same time. Too many things to do to stop and take a poop.

Marlowe does the sniff-n-poo. He'll be pooping, and he's fairly straightforward about starting, but mid-poop he'll get distracted by some smell on the ground and start to scoot around while pooping to get a better whiff. And he'll get so in to it that he'll be done pooping but he'll remain squatting there, not pooping, just sniffing.

Neither of my dogs gives much warning or preliminary before starting and when people yell at me for my dogs pooping on their property (almost never on their actual lawns, I try to not let the dogs walk on anyone's lawn, but on the '**** strip' of grass between sidewalk and street that I always figured existed for the express purpose of dog pottying) I just have to wonder, um, how am I supposed to prevent this? Corks? Mind-reading? Stop them mid-way and shove it all back in? What? Because once a dog squats, it's kind of hard to unring that bell. All I can do is whip out one of my (many, many) baggies and clean it up.

ROFL!!

It's a good thing that's not the word I use! Though I bet my therapy group would love that.

"Hey Izzy! Take a sh!t" :lol-sign:

The town fathers were looking for a way to increase attendance and participation at their regular meetings. One member suggested bringing in a hypnotist. The officials agreed, a famous hypnotist was hired, publicity distributed, and everyone was pleased.

A few weeks later the meeting hall was packed, and the town's people sat fascinated as the hypnotist withdrew a pocket watch. The hypnotist began chanting... "Watch the watch, watch the watch, watch the watch..."

The crowd became mesmerized as the watch swayed back and forth, light gleaming off its polished surface. Hundreds of pairs of eyes followed the swaying watch, until suddenly the hypnotist's fingers slipped and the watch fell to the floor...

"****" said the hypnotist.

It took three weeks to clean up the town hall.

Hey! That's my patented line!

:lol-sign: Good one.

:lol-sign:

Kona is a perfect spot pooper too. She doesn't go just anywhere, the grass has to hide her bum a little and it has to be in the field, not the yard (I taught her this myself), and it has to be the perrrrrrrrfect spot.