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Campbell Live - Driving Dogs

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I must say this has been the toughest assignment we've had ...No one in the car, no tricks, it's all Monty driving.
– Animal trainer Mark Vette

Porter then drove a reporter around a 180 degree hairpin turn, although it wasn't without a bit of drifting.
– Auckland Now article on the driving dogs, 10 December 2012

I think sometimes people think because they're getting an animal that's been abandoned that somehow it's a second class animal ... Driving a car actively demonstrates to potential rescue dog adopters that you can teach an old dog new tricks. The dogs have achieved amazing things in eight short weeks of training, which really shows with the right environment just how much potential all dogs from the SPCA have as family pets.
– SPCA Auckland chief executive Christine Kalin in the NZ Herald, 4 December 2012