Is this the world's most useless dog?

Anybody who's ever been been unhealthy at sports activities can relate to this hapless canine.

Whereas most pooches love a sport of fetch and may carry a ball again inside seconds, Zelda the canine simply cannot fairly appear to get the hold of it.

A hilarious video has captured the hound's disastrous makes an attempt to run after a tennis ball: she runs within the unsuitable path, fails to get the ball into her mouth and usually has actually horrible paw-eye coordination.

A hilarious video has captured the hound's disastrous makes an attempt to run after a tennis ball: At first the pet leaps excessive up into the air after the thrown balls however veers into completely the other way to the ball earlier than eagerly sprinting again spherical in a curve

However poor Zelda misjudges her angle and and finally ends up sliding comically onto her aspect and has to spin herself round on the grass - just for the ball to fall subsequent to her leg

Al Baker, from Bradwell, Derbyshire, uploaded the entertaining video to Twitter, writing, 'I inform individuals my canine is the worst, they do not consider me. Now exhausting video proof emerges.'

The slow-motion footage exhibits Baker's good friend, Jack de Aguilar, from Sheffield, throwing a ball into the air and ready to see how Zelda reacts.

At first the pet - believed to be a cross-breed - leaps excessive up into the air and veers into completely the other way to the ball earlier than eagerly sprinting again spherical in a curve.

However poor Zelda misjudges her angle and and finally ends up sliding comically onto her aspect and has to spin herself round on the grass - just for the ball to fall subsequent to her leg.

Not delay, she reaches out for the tennis ball along with her mouth - however simply cannot seize maintain of it. Regardless of how a lot she presses her face into it she will't get a purchase order.

And simply while you suppose she's mastered it - the ball is again on the bottom.

Not delay, she reaches out for the tennis ball along with her mouth - however simply cannot seize maintain of it. Regardless of how a lot she presses her face into it she will't get a purchase order

The clip has now been 'favored' nicely over 38,000 occasions.

Many viewers have been so amazed by Zelda's ineptitude they're satisfied she should be blind, however proprietor Baker insists her eyesight is okay.

He provides: 'Additionally value mentioning, the color of the ball or wetness of the grass makes no distinction. She's like this with every part.'

De Aguilar, who has additionally shared the hound's misadventures on-line, wrote on Twitter: 'Zelda the canine is getting well-known, and it is not more than she deserves as a result of she tries. Actually tries. #dogsfotwitter'.

Battersea Canine and Cats Dwelling's Head of Canine Behaviour and Coaching Ali Taylor advised MailOnline: 'Not each canine has athletic prowess with regards to catching! In actual fact, opposite to fashionable perception, it isn't unusual for canines to be unhealthy at fetch or to don't have any curiosity by any means in tennis balls.

'Each canine is completely different and house owners must work with them to seek out out what they like and what motivates them.

'Nevertheless, if you happen to do have issues about your canine's co-ordination, it is value getting your vet to test them over and take a look at their eyesight, simply in case!'