Mike Tindall's heartbreaking revelation on 'only time he's ever really cried'

Mike Tindall has revealed that there are a handful of times he has "ever really cried".

Appearing on the podcast Oh My Dog, talked fondly about his family pets and the emotional goodbyes he has shared with some of them before.

As well as sharing three children - Mia, Lena and Lucas - with wife , the daughter of , the former rugby player also owns three pet dogs including black Labradors Storm and Pepper, and a Brindle boxer called Blink.

The dogs all live with the couple at their home on the Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire, where Princess Anne also lives.

Speaking to hosts Jack Dee and Seann Walsh on the podcast, the 46-year-old

He said: "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."

The dad-of-three, who seems to have the same love of dogs as other royals do, also shared how he is struggling to know what to do about his dog Storm, who is 15 and beginning to slow down.

He said: "It's difficult with her [Storm] at the moment because she is, you know, 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. 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'.

"She's like, an old human being. She hates noise. 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'."

Mike's love of dogs is something he has in common with his wife's family, with

and are also fans of dogs,

The couple adopted the dogs from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London in February 2017.