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Porter is one of three dogs who began by driving a wooden cart, before graduating to a modified Mini. Picture: SPCA
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Astonishingly, 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.
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The dogs began their driving
lessons on wooden carts and trainers say they took just eight weeks to
master the basics. Picture: SPCA
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The experiment was set up by an animal welfare group in New Zealand which wanted to show the public how intelligent dogs are.
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The dogs and their skills will be put to the test in a live broadcast next Monday. Picture: SPCA
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Mark Vette, who is schooling the dogs, said: ‘"We train them 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".
All of the dogs involved had been rescued by the SPCA. The organization hopes the public will be so impressed that they will adopt them and others like them.
SPCA Auckland chief executive Christine Kalin said: "I think sometimes people think because they're getting an animal that's been abandoned that somehow it's a second-class animal.
"This really shows with the right environment just how much potential all dogs from the SPCA have as family pets."
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