diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 2d03811..97ff6b3 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Revision history for Meerkat
 
     - Adds support for 'immortal' to cursors
 
+    [PREREQS]
+
+    - Made DateTime::Tiny optional
+
 0.012     2015-11-03 06:31:33-05:00 America/New_York
 
     [FIXED]
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index d200654..b6b6f73 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
   },
   "TEST_REQUIRES" => {
     "Data::Faker" => 0,
-    "DateTime::Tiny" => 0,
     "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" => 0,
     "File::Spec" => 0,
     "MooX::Types::MooseLike::Base" => 0,
@@ -68,7 +67,6 @@ my %FallbackPrereqs = (
   "Carp" => 0,
   "Data::Faker" => 0,
   "DateTime" => 0,
-  "DateTime::Tiny" => 0,
   "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" => 0,
   "File::Spec" => 0,
   "Module::Runtime" => 0,
diff --git a/dist.ini b/dist.ini
index 2212374..015104a 100644
--- a/dist.ini
+++ b/dist.ini
@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ stopwords = datetime
 stopwords = datetimes
 stopwords = meerkat
 stopwords = ness
+
+[RemovePrereqs]
+remove = DateTime::Tiny
diff --git a/t/datetime.t b/t/datetime.t
index 61a7b52..c9ca44f 100644
--- a/t/datetime.t
+++ b/t/datetime.t
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ use Test::Requires qw/MongoDB/;
 
 use Time::HiRes;
 use DateTime;
-use DateTime::Tiny;
 use Meerkat::DateTime;
 
 my $conn = eval { MongoDB::MongoClient->new; };
@@ -38,6 +37,8 @@ test 'set DateTime' => sub {
 };
 
 test 'set DateTime::Tiny' => sub {
+    plan skip_all => 'requires DateTime::Tiny'
+      unless eval { require DateTime::Tiny; 1 };
     my $self = shift;
     my $obj  = $self->create_person;
     my $birthday =