Levels of made sure dog used breeds has problem birds but she was not one of them. What? How could she not herself? I was obviously more annoyed than he was by then, but training rescue dogs do that to you. Marley could very well have become a statistic after being exiled from obedience class if his dog parents weren't John and Grogan. Mr. Grogan decided that the trainer was just not able to outside herself, I accepted his conclusion and walked back to Another newcomer to our obedience group had arrived, dressed a knee-length denim skirt, tie-around shirt, and sandals. She was not a dog handler, but a friend of someone high up the production's food chain. As a partner, she was given a cocker spaniel from one of the small dogs that were brought for the background classes and they got a spot next to Marley. Two men from rehearsal day chose to wear flip-flops, and by day's end realized why that wasn't a good idea. Their feet had provided snacks for the ants who flourished on certain parts of the hill. ran around spraying dogs' paws, and people's feet and shoes, with a bug repellant for most of the day. She came prepared with arsenal of items. For the quarter-sized hot spot Leissl had licked bald on her rump, brought a spray that bald men use to patch hairless spots. After a few mists, Leissl looked flawless. The latecomers' scene was filmed from three different angles, if not four. It was a process. After that, we progressed to the collar your dogs scene. Wardrobe rushed with handfuls of choke collars, because of the dogs were buckle-type collars and their handlers didn't own chokes. This is a testament both to the development of new products and training techniques since the early '90s that work better and are more humane, and to empathic shifts dog owners' perspectives. 's handler mentioned that she'd signed a contract with the service dog group sponsoring that no choke chain would be used on her. has a lovely reddish coat and was a head halter of similar color. Though her handler may have slipped a collar on, she didn't connect it to the leash. With the body of fur on no one would notice. Aniston stopped to pay attention to and her beautiful fur several times during the day. Leissl had a fan, also. One of the crew members has three Dobies California and had come over to pet Leissl at least three times. There seemed to be someone drawn to most every dog the group, and it was heartwarming to be approached by the dog lovers the cast and crew. As the collar your dog scene progressed, the Marleys had another behavior to show off. While tried to put the choke collar on, Marley was to stop him by biting it, which held up the class. The Lab did a good job with directing him, and left opening for a punch line from Ms. Turner. Behind the class was and behind her were white background panels, which undoubtedly disappear editing. gave the Marleys their cues with hand signals, and occasionally she had to include a verbal command, which also disappear editing. After Marley's collar was put on, we did the exercise that we'd practiced on rehearsal day where Marley takes off through our class circle with tow. was on the other end with the dog's much loved dinner bowl, but before could pass the leash to the Lab got riled up when he spotted a cat on the dock across the canal! This particular Marley was a handful to hold on to, and he was not shy about announcing his sighting. Had the leash slipped, I have no doubt that he would have flung himself into the canal, swam across it, and found a way to scale the wall to get that cat. There was no calming the boy down. With each second ticking away, dollars were adding up. They put this Marley his crate and brought out another Lab. Dogs be dogs, and even movie dogs have fetishes. This was the understudy's big break, and he took up the challenge and finished the scene. Each scene was filmed from at least three different angles and each was filmed no less than four times. Every time a scene was set up, we were given marks to stand on, and the dogs had to stay on their marks as well. One scene required the dogs to be standing front of us and it started with Ms. Turner