WTD ... when the dog refuses to walk

WTD this morning was a waste of time really: dog refused to walk.

Several scenarios have resulted in ambulatory refusal in the past

• needing to go when human holder of the lead is unaware that a toilet stop is necessary. Dog can't talk so resorts to stopping until message understood. Or squats mid stride in the middle of the road ...
• being ill with tummy ache after eating a beanie baby that appeared naturally after a few anxious days and many visits to the vet
• scary hay bales newly appeared alongside usual footpath
• getting to a particular junction in the road which rather gives the game away that we are nearly home 
• noticing that human friend still has some carrot in her pocket and sitting down looking pretty in the hope that she might be persuaded to part with some 
• or ... todays reason: (warning - what follows is gross!)

Made the mistake of taking a footpath across a field recently vacated by a herd of cows and their calves. Dog  clearly been reading Lord of the Rings and assumed it was time for second breakfast.

Twenty minutes later I caught him. And abandoned the walk.