The Apprentice candidates will try to avoid making a dog’s dinner of this week’s task as they attempt to run their own canine service businesses.

In Wednesday night’s episode of the competition the teams will compete for the opportunity to run either a dog spa or a canine agility class for the day.

They will also pitch to pick up mess and take photographs of people’s beloved pets.

James White takes the lead for Team Graphene for the second week in a row, but committing to a professional photography shoot may mean the team bite off more than they can chew.

Meanwhile Team Vitality, headed by Charles Burns, will find that scooping up poo is not all it is cracked up to be and struggle to finish on time.

The team who win the chance to run the spa will have to make sure neither they nor the dog hair get tangled in knots, whereas the team running the agility class will have some pricing difficulties that could land them in hot water.

:: The Apprentice airs at 9pm on BBC One.