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Dogs drive cars: Shelter teaches dogs new tricks
Shelter hopes to demonstrate that shelter dogs are awesome.
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An animal shelter in New Zealand set out to show that you can teach an old dog new tricks-they taught dogs how to drive cars. Shelter workers built a special training vehicle and eventually let dogs take the wheel behind a car. By teaching the dogs how to drive, the shelter hopes to show that there's nothing a rescue dog can't do. For video of dogs driving cars,
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