Dog days on the catwalk

When you gotta go, you gotta go. Despite animal trainer Mark Kinaston-Smith saying he can train his proteges to "hold on", it's inevitable there are times when things don't go to plan.

As World of WearableArt's animal trainer, he has had to train chickens, dogs and horses to strut their stuff among the fashionistas at four WOW events and only once had there been an "incident".
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The 35-year-old, who also breeds horses on his Levin property, has trained animals for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, the River Queen movie and television commercials.

He started preparing his animals for this year's World of WearableArt event more than a month ago. Three chickens and two dogs will be appearing in the show, which opens in Wellington on Thursday. "You have to make sure they are familiarised with what they have to do," he said.