Training dogs is hard enough. In fact, some dogs don’t take too well to instruction and end up just as devoid of any useful tricks as when you started teaching them. Regardless, though, there are always professional dog trainers who are likely more capable that can take your uneducated mutt and teach him a useful skill or two.

But fish?

Aren’t fishes supposed to be dumb with really small brains incapable of registering useful instructions? Apparently, not everybody thinks that.

If you have an aquarium and keep fish for pet, this may be a cool way to spend a lazy afternoon – the R2 Fish Training School Kit. Just like the name suggests, this is a complete set of tools to help you train your fish. Train fish to do what, you may be asking? A wide variety of skills, as it turns out.

Learn how to teach your fish to :
* play American football
* play soccer
* shoot hoops
* limbo rock
* weave through the water
* fetch stuff
* find their way through tubes and tunnels
* and more

How exactly do you do this? We have no idea. But you’re going to learn it because the R2 Fish Training School Kit includes an instructional DVD and a step by step manual to guide through the ordeal. The kit also contains everything you will need for the drills including the R2 Fish School training platform, numerous accessories (basketball rings, tubes, soccer goal, etc), a feeding wand (you’ll most likely feed it after tricks, just like dogs) and a weighted base for bowls and tanks to make the classroom experience much easier.

The tricks, by the way, are designed to be performed by fishes between 1 to 6 inches in length. No, your shark doesn’t qualify. Available from Thinkgeek.