“Puppy Games : Animal Planet”
August 7th, 2008
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Did you watch Animal Planet’s Olympic-themed special, The Puppy Games, last night?
Even though I was lucky enough to be a part of the show for the casting, wrangling and handling of the pups, I was still blown away by how adorable it turned out. This was my third “puppy sport” show with Animal Planet, and there’s no doubt that we had our cutest turnout ever this time.
The proof is in the puppies:
(Had to use my crappy camera, which explains the glowing eyes.)
We had over forty puppies on site for the first day of filming, and sadly, not every pup managed to get screen time. Some didn’t like being on set, some didn’t play well with others, some preferred to watch from the sidelines … TV ain’t for everybody.
Little Zim, the star of the gymnastics segment, could have shown those camera-shy pups a thing or two.
Zim’s “comeback story” cracked me up! Here’s a spoiler: I was actually using this toy to lead him back and forth on the balance beam:
The toy - one of my secret weapons that most of my training clients should recognize - got plenty of screen time during the show … if you saw it dangling on screen, I was on the other end of it doing the dangling.
I was happy to see that my client Tino got quite a bit of attention during the boxing segment, and I spotted little Mabel on screen a few times as well. Good Dog Training clients, represent!
This guy didn’t get as much air time as he should have … I lost my heart to that silly face of his. Want to see into the future? My next dog will look just like this:
Hello, Gorgeous, I’m in love with you.
It was a loooonnng day for little puppies, so Puppy Village looked like this towards the afternoon:
So what did you think about the show? Was it better than the Puppy Bowl? What was your favorite event? Who was MVP? (Zim, Zim, Zim!) Was Puglsely spread too thin because of his two events? Oh - and did you see my commercial? (It was awesome!)
