The president of the 'Olympets', Howard Cheung, said the five-ring symbol for the game is the five species - dog, cats, parrots, small-size animals and reptiles.

"Comet" can play football, basketball and even limbo dance under a bar. Comet is a common goldfish who has been trained using the operant conditioning positive reinforcement techniques and tools of the R2 Fish School Training Kit

In this photo released by the Chinese news agency Xinhua, a parrot slam-dunks during a performance at the Laohutan Ocean Park in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning province, on Friday May 2, 2008

Fifteen-year-old Latabe is so adept at dribbling a football she is more than a match for her keeper

Joy, a 10-year-old chow chow belonging to Bill and Diane Staggs of Mission Viejo, relaxes on the sands with her paw jury-rigged with a partial Wiffle bat and half tennis ball.

A classic in Wacky Animal Film History. Still waiting a DVD release, so has remained VHS until now. You can find the full movie cut into parts on YouTube. Click the movie for more.

With the fitting soundtrack by 10cc's Graham Gouldman and yes, that is Harry Shearer voice in there too.