Dizzy attended a photo shoot for some stills that will be used on Stronghold posters for worms. She had to sniff along a fence whilst being walked by a little boy, she also had to do sniffing in various other places and sit by him while he was on a bench. In the afternoon they shot for the Strongold flea posters and they used Ember quickly, she had to lie on the sofa - easy enough!
We filmed a programme called Top Dog for Animal Planet, presented by Shauna Lowry. 9am - 7pm!
Assualt Course - Straight up and down agility course, Cas unfortunately had 5f on the long jump, 5f for refusing the dog walk (which several dogs did and we couldn't understand why) and 5f for the A-frame. Finishing in 3rd place with 6 points.
Scent - My sock was placed in amongst a pile of clothes and she had to hunt it out. Only problem being she had to do this at the same time as the other 5 dogs, needless to say she was more interested in what they were doing, eventually finding her sock and coming 4th with 4 points.
Musical Chairs - As it sounds, it wasn't really a test of the dog at all. We've always been rubbish at this game as we don't cheat unlike others, so we came 3rd, again with 6 points.
Temptation - Mr Hog the butcher had a huge pile of sausages he took them right under the dogs nose. Cas stayed there for a minute and didn't touch them - did move away from him though as he was very scary! So she scored the full 10 points.
Trick - This was our best round and she did a few freestyle moves and skateboarding and basketball. She was a little off her head as had been sitting round doing nothing most of the day but did really well. I am not sure how many points she got in this round.
Overall she was placed second so I was quite pleased, Cas was a star and did exactly as she was asked. It was a long day for us both.Shropshire Star were there and ran an article:
After winning Pup Idol at the Wag & Bone Show, I had a very busy day - Started the day off when Central News came round to film Cas. She did her Amarillo routine followed by some basketball playing and skateboarding. She was a little star. Midlands Today arrived soon after and filmed her doing the same, the presenter tried to get Cas to dance with her but kept running away as soon as Cas went near as she didn't want white hairs all over her! We whizzed down to Slough to attend the Dogs Today photoshoot for the front cover. Cas and Ember were good as gold and sat and posed for as long as they were needed, here's the front cover:
Diz and I made the journey to Wimbledon Common, London today. Four dogs were shortlisted and attended the day and one of the four will be chosen to appear on ads and packaging for Pedigree foods. Diz had to look happy (panting) and have pics taken in several different poses - Lying down with head up and with chin, lying on her back, standing, sitting, walking towards camera. She was good as gold as per usual and the photographer was impressed with her. We didn't seem any Wombles ;-)
We have spent two days this week in Cheltenham at the studios there:
Day 1
After having spent last night in the hotel we didn't have to worry about the journey to the studios as it was 5 minutes down the road. We arrived at 7:30am and met all the crew. Our day went as follows:
Scene 1 - Dizzy had to lie on a vets table with her legs bandaged. Easy enough for her and she was very good, several takes were shot to get the angles right. I am featured as a carer and had to stroke her while she was on the table.
Scene 2 - Dizzy had to take slow steps with her bandages on in the vets surgery. This was difficult as I had to be at her side supporting her, whenever I told her to step she would look at me. So we got Kay to lie in front of the set and tell her to step which worked brilliantly.
Scene 3 - Dizzy was carried by someone through a Dogs Trust waiting room.
Time for lunch, we had a lovely buffet provided for us.
Scene 4 - Bandages off. Dizzy was filmed walking across set, easy enough - no! Well they wanted her walking slower and then when she did she didn't look as happy as when she was going quicker. So that took quite a few takes.
Scene 5 - Outside they filmed Dizzy taking her first steps unaided with me encouraging her.
Scene 6 - On location at a country park. They filmed us walking through the country and jumping (Dizzy not me!) a little pile of logs. They also did some stills of her and some shots of her bounding through the grass from A to B.
Scene 7 - Back at the studios we filmed a split screen with Diz looking into camera and another dog joins her and sits next to her.
Back at the hotel it's 9:30pm! So we go to the pub and have some dinner, Dizzy is absolutely worn out and sleeps well!!
Day 2
Scene 1 - We film a split screen again with Dizzy being joined with two other dogs.
Scene 2 - Out on location again and we film Dizzy wandering lonely and dirty (she was covered with brown make-up and water) down a pavement.
Scene 3 - Dizzy is filmed looking sadly across the road.It starts tipping down with rain so we have to film the pavement one again.
Scene 4 - Diz is filmed stepping out in front of a car.
Scene 5 - Dizzy is filmed playing dead in front of a car.Again back at the studios it's time for some food!! We then take ages showering the gel and make-up off Diz.
Scene 6 - Dizzy jumps onto a chair to look at a noticeboard.
That's it, our work was done. We finished at 4:45pm but the other dogs were then filming so I watched them so I could miss rush hour traffic. I arrived home at 7pm. What a fantastic couple of days - I loved every minute!!
Dizzy attended a photo shoot for some stills that will be used on Stronghold posters for worms. She had to sniff along a fence whilst being walked by a little boy, she also had to do sniffing in various other places and sit by him while he was on a bench. In the afternoon they shot for the Strongold flea posters and they used Ember quickly, she had to lie on the sofa - easy enough!
