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The saying you can\u2019t teach an old dog new tricks is a bit misleading \u2013 after all, with the right residential dog training<\/a> or the pet and working dog training\u00a0 from the professionals<\/a>, you can break almost any behavioural trait or, in fact, teach them new skills.<\/p>\n

Point in case is this charity exhibition tennis game in Brazil organised by the Association of Animal Wellbeing to show that shelter dogs can\u00a0be<\/p>\n

rehomed and retrained. For the match at the Brazil Open tennis tournament, four dogs were trained<\/a> as \u2018ball dogs\u2019, fetching the balls and returning them, although somewhat reluctantly at times, to the players, according to CNN.com.<\/p>\n

Andrea Beckert from the Association of Animal Wellbeing said: \u201cWe want to show that abandoned dogs can be adopted and trained\u2026 it\u2019s not easy to get a dog to only pick up the lost balls and then to give them up!\u201d<\/p>\n

The dogs donned an orange bandana and chased the balls around for half an hour, cheered on by the crowds, as players Roberto Carballes Baena from Spain and Gastao Elias from Portugal played the points.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time dogs have been hard at work during a tennis match, however. Last month, the world swooned over a team of ball-dogs at a match featuring Venus Williams in Auckland New Zealand.<\/p>\n

However, it might not be on the cards that ball-dogs will become a regular fixture at actual tennis matches \u2013 looking at these videos, the players seem to be more than a little distracted by these particular working dogs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"