WEIRD: Dogs being trained TO DRIVE cars! Care for a ride?

WEIRD: Dogs being
trained TO DRIVE
cars! Care for a
ride?
Imagine yourself driving,
you take a look at your
rear-view mirror and find
the car right behind you is
being driven by a dog! Well,
this might as well be
happening soon as some
animal experts are teaching
dogs how to drive.
According to the experts, it
took three Mutts just eight
weeks to master the basics
in wooden carts. They then
graduated to a modified
Mini in which they sat on
their haunches in the
driver’s seat with their
paws on the steering wheel.
Their feet go on extension
levers which are attached to
the accelerator and the
brake while their paw rests
on the gearstick.
Sounds weird right? An
animal welfare group in
New Zealand trained the
dogs to get behind the wheel
in an attempt to show the
public how intelligent they
are. The Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals will put them to
the test in a live broadcast
next Monday!
The dogs have been trained
in specially made wooden
carts which they have been
driving around inside an
indoor test lab. Mark Vette,
the animal trainer who is
schooling the dogs, said in a
preview of the show that
they treated the training
like a ‘film shoot’, in
reference to his work in the
movies.
He said: ‘We train the dogs
to do different actions,
touch is the first thing and
then we teach them to touch
the different objects with
the right paw and left paw…
They’ve all come through at
this point and they’re all
going really well.”