Sparky likes to say that old dogs don’t need new tricks, because they’ve got plenty of tricks up their sleeves.

Tonight, Sparky proved it.  It’s game over, man.  I don’t care how clever your dog seems, Sparky has them all beat.  [I’m only counting dogs IRL, not those tricky dogs on Youtube.]

It was like watching Penn and Teller.  You’re looking right at them, and you didn’t even know a trick was happening, much less how it was done.

Sparky pooped on top of a snow ball. 

Dogs leave messages through smells.  Poop is typing in all caps.  Sparky pooped up on top of a snow ball because he’s a boss.

Don’t be dismissive, and consider this to be a futile gesture because the snow ball will melt.  Dogs don’t understand phase change.  That would be missing the point.

I don’t know how he did it and  I was looking right at him.  Sparky and I have a mutual agreement not to watch each other poop, but it looked like he was just standing there.  He was backed up to the snow ball, and what I thought was his tail, wasn’t.  It was evening, but not so dark that a flashlight was needed to walk around.

When he walked away, I realized what happened.  Thinking quickly, I included my boot in the photo for scale.  A short time later, I took the photo at the top for reference.  The top of the snow ball looks to be at the same height or above Sparky’s butt. 

Sparky doesn’t poop haphazardly.  This was intentional and done subtly.  I’m impressed.

Here is an uncensored photo from a different angle.