Tennis ball dogs, Apparently, you can advise an old dog new tricks. To prove the point, four apartment dogs rescued from barrio and alone lots about Sao Paulo were accomplished as "ball dogs" for an exhibition tennis bout this anniversary at the Brazil Open.
The dogs playfully ran afterwards the assurance that went out of play and cautiously alternate them to the players and dog trainers during the bout this week.
"We wish to appearance that alone dogs can be adopted and trained," said Andrea Beckert, a trainer from the Affiliation of Animal Wellbeing. "After all, it's not simple to get a dog to alone aces up the absent balls, and again to accord them up!"
The four dogs were Frida, Mel, Isabelle and Costela.
"Costela" is the Portuguese chat for "rib."
"When we begin him alone in an abandoned lot he was so angular and ravaged by ticks that we alleged him Costela," Beckert said.
She said the affiliation is currently apartment about 1,200 dogs and hopes to accession acquaintance with the "ball dog" initiative.
On Thursday the dogs donned orange bandannas and were animated on for about a half-hour as they abject afterwards the absent balls. The competitors, Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena and Portugal's Gastao Elias, played along.
On Sunday the dogs are accepted to participate in the awards ceremony.
The dogs playfully ran afterwards the assurance that went out of play and cautiously alternate them to the players and dog trainers during the bout this week.
"We wish to appearance that alone dogs can be adopted and trained," said Andrea Beckert, a trainer from the Affiliation of Animal Wellbeing. "After all, it's not simple to get a dog to alone aces up the absent balls, and again to accord them up!"
The four dogs were Frida, Mel, Isabelle and Costela.
"Costela" is the Portuguese chat for "rib."
"When we begin him alone in an abandoned lot he was so angular and ravaged by ticks that we alleged him Costela," Beckert said.
She said the affiliation is currently apartment about 1,200 dogs and hopes to accession acquaintance with the "ball dog" initiative.
On Thursday the dogs donned orange bandannas and were animated on for about a half-hour as they abject afterwards the absent balls. The competitors, Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena and Portugal's Gastao Elias, played along.
On Sunday the dogs are accepted to participate in the awards ceremony.
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