Remote-controlled squirrel helps train guide dogs

A charity has found a "creative solution" to training assistance dogs which involves strapping toy squirrels to remote-controlled cars.

Guide Dogs trains the animals to help support people who are blind or have visual impairments.

Hannah Liebeskind, a trainer with the charity, told BBC Radio Merseyside made squirrels were ideal props for training because "they are everywhere they are fluffy, they are fast, they're erratic".

She said: "We needed a creative solution to help prepare our dogs so that when they are they are guiding our owners they're not going to chase them."