Gladiator Dog (canine freestyle)

[furtech]

Here's a great canine freestyle routine (dog-dancing) involving swords, dramatic battles and over-acting. Not sure how accurate the fighting is, but it's as good as any sixty-year old Italian gladiator movie!

EDIT: Plus, a cute video on how to keep your cat from eating your food. This is a real training clip (by amateurs), but the cat is adorable.

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[brerandalopex.livejournal.com]

[Brer] Also, I dunno if you have seen the Charlie Chaplin one... Looks like the same event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLWp9zJTlz8

I am impressed at how far this canine performance event has come. A couple years ago the best acts were still mostly just collections of simple tricks strung together to music, with very little attention to timing or choreography. People are really starting to pull it all together now.

When you see a half-hour show of it on Animal Planet you'll know it has arrived...

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Same venue, probably a different year (but could be same event). I'm pretty sure this happened in Britain, where Mary Ray is supreme and her classes and shows have inspired other freestylers to great heights. Here's a link to one of her routines: not too spectacular until you consider how hard it is to get two dogs to do two different things together. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK43ZUIgPJc)

One of the finest is still Carolyne and Rookie's "You're the One the I Want" routine featurine a golden retriever that is SO HAPPY doing an amazing routine:



Animal Planet has featured canine freestyle many times in various shows: I'm waiting for either a reality show based or a series about freestyle.

[oats-a-plenty.livejournal.com]

That video is about 10 years old, I think, or close to it.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right. This was still in the earlier days of Canine Freestyle (I think it was just called "Freestyle Obedience" in those days). None-the-less, this is a classic routine that only a very few have come close to matching, both in skills and in the sheer joy both dog and human express.