Tombstone is a town that is tattered with slow moving horses making their way through the tourist-lined streets. With numerous stagecoaches swaying up and down Tombstone’s streets, horses have found a way of becoming properly potty trained in regulation with town policy.

The Old Tombstone Tours, a stagecoach business that takes tourists around the town while educating them about Tombstone’s history, has taught its horses how to excrete in only one place.

Tom Clark, an employee of the Old Tombstone Tours for nearly a decade, says that the process isn’t magic.

“They know when and when not to go,” says Clark, who has been equipping their shoes for seven years. “We take them down to the sandbox twice every day, usually around noon and three in the afternoon.”

The “sandbox” that Clark refers to is a small dirt blotch that is located behind the visitors’ parking lot near Town Hall. The horses are only allowed to urinate in the “sandbox.” In order to keep the town streets clean of that other particular byproduct, the Old Tombstone Tours, employees equip the horses with diapers.

“We really don’t ever get complaints from citizens,” says Clark. “There have been a few instances where people have complained, but I think that is more about the people running the business rather than the actual horses.”

Mike Carrafa, a local busniess owner who is building his second bar after his first burned to the ground last year, says he has a problem with the horse “piss.”

“When Six Gun City (Carrafa’s first bar) was still running, we could always smell the horse piss in the dry heat,” says Carrafa. “In the winter it would be even worse because the winds would blow the smell inside our bar. It just smells awful.”

According to Carrafa, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality was contacted last year to resolve the issue, but as of now nothing has been done in terms of stopping the pee parade behind the parking lot.

George Barnes, the town’s manager/city clerk, seems to think that the designated urinating spot is working out quite well.

“It’s just this little corner behind the parking lot that isn’t hurting anybody,” says Barnes. “It is maintained pretty well and it is just one of those things that has worked out pretty well so far.”

According to Clark, the reserved pee spot has changed three times over the past decade.

Dusty Escapule, Old Tombstone Tours’ owner, refused to comment on the issue.