Mike Tindall says that his father-in-law pees outside when the dogs do

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Mike Tindall says that his father-in-law pees outside when the dogs do.

On an episode of the Oh My Dog podcast, the 45-year-old former rugby participant revealed that his father-in-law Mark Phillips – the former partner of Princess Anne – has the odd behavior of going to pee at the similar time as his dogs when they’re outside collectively.

The subject was broached when host Sean Walsh recalled that his co-host Jack Dee revealed that when he lets his canine Dolly out into the backyard to go to the toilet, Dee joins Dolly and pees too. Walsh mentioned, “They share wee wee time.”

“I think that’s just an old man thing,” Tindall defended Dee. “Because I might say that my father-in-law does that as well. He takes the dogs for a walk to go for a pee himself.”

Elsewhere on the podcast, he talked about the three dogs he shares with his spouse and Princess Anne’s daughter, equestrian Zara Tindall. The couple personal three dogs – two black labradors named Storm and Pepper, who’re mom and daughter, and Blink the Brindle Boxer. Each of them is called after “power women” from Marvel Comics.

“The only times I’ve ever cried, well really ever cried, [was] when I had a bull Mastiff called Misty who died and then Cawley, who was Storm’s mum when she died as well,” Tindall shared.

At the age of 15, Storm has noticeably begun to maneuver extra slowly, which has led him and his spouse to be cautious of Storm’s well being. “It’s difficult with her at the moment because she is, you know,” Tindall defined. “Unfortunately, she’s very old now and it’s getting to that sort of time where you’re asking the question, ‘is she enjoying what she’s doing,’ you know?”

“She’s just got no interest,” he added. “You shake a lead at her, you go out, you go outside. You have to sort of drag her outside. She’s like, ‘I don’t want to go’. And I’m like, ‘Well, yeah, you need to sort of go too.’”

Tindall shared that as soon as Storm does her enterprise outside, she instantly runs again inside, and flops onto her mattress, ever the homebody. He known as her a creature of behavior and likened her to an aged particular person.

“She’s like, an old human being. She hates noise,” he admitted. “So whenever she’s, like, happy as Larry, and then you get down for the breakfast time and she’s like, ‘Please open any door – I’m going to a different room because the noise is doing my head in.’”

The rugby participant and the equestrian married in 2011, and share three youngsters: Mia, Lena, and Lucas Tindall.