Who participated in the XENA shoot?
The crew for the Xena episode were Sollek, Griff, Shiloh, CJ and a litter brother of CJ, Gretzki (Ch Hootalinqua Thunda Jak WTD). The particular episode is entitled Girls just Wanna have Fun. We received a call from Renaissance Pictures asking if we knew of anyone who had 5 mals living together. At that time we had 4 adults and 2 pups. The head wrangler, Mark Vette, arrived that night to assess our mals. Mark is an animal behavioural expert, accepted by the NZ courts as an expert witness in animal behavioural matters. After 5 minutes Mark said that our guys would do. Everyone says it’s difficult to teach a Malamute to perform on cue — due to, of course, our high intelligence … we get so easily bored with doing the same tricks over and over. How did your crew do? CJ went to an obedience trainer for a couple of days, who reported that she could do nothing with him, but Mark had confidence that the dogs would work for me, and asked if I would handle them on the set. Of course I would!!
