Some of you lot must have been in the movies, Robin Hood had Deerhounds in it. What can you tell me about it ?
Bryn, Cara and A N other are heading up North in October for a film thing and I'd be grateful for any advise.

They are just going to be 'extras' the proper acting dogs will do the bits that require proper training

feldandjack wrote:


Robin Hood had Kay Barret's dogs in it and Kilbourne Macallan (correct me if I'm wrong, somebody)played Sirius Black in the Harry Potter movies. Elise's mum's dogs were in that Scottish history series earlier this year, so she may well be able to bring you up to speed.

Was Kilbourne Fern in one too, I remember seeing her on the website, with fangs and ears!

Lurch8252 wrote:


Were they her own fangs and ears? she'd look odd without ears

Hi Feldandjack

Yes, I spent a day with BBC Scotland with five Deerhounds - four Cusidhs and Rossyln Neil. My experience was a good one, the dogs enjoyed themselves as it involved running through woods predominantly and the people there were all excellent. In terms of advice though be prepared to be hanging around for long periods of time so bring something nice for the dogs to lie on and a book etc for you. I missed the indoors filming session but Mum said it got quite hot so bring lots of water for the dogs. Also bring lots of treats for the dogs - ours were all off lead and without collars in public areas so good idea to have something to help get them back easily. Also some of the actors who needed to interact with the dogs benefitted from being given some dog treats so they could give them to the dogs and get to know them a bit. Be prepared for a lot of repetition. I lost count of the number of times the dogs were required to run through the woods etc as even if they were happy with the filming they wanted to complete it from different angles etc so it all required a lot of repetition. Indeed we didn't finish till quite late in the day - so bring some food for you too in case you can't easily get away to get something to eat. Finally, depending on what you have to do bring a friend to help as if the dog is required to walk/run in a certain direction its easier to have a friend release the dog to walk towards you.

Let us know how you get on. The BBC crew we were with were happy for us to take photos so if poss get some photos of the day too. Would love to see what went on.

All the best Elise

Thanks for the reply, I'm quite looking forward to this now, although I still have nightmares about what the dogs are required to do and what they actually do. There is a running over a field scene, the 6 dogs all running together, I hope the other three are fast or it might be a race of two halves. It's a 3-4 week shoot, so I'll be sure and pack plenty treats for the dogs and gin for me. I'd be happier if Sue brought her lure stuff along, at least then I'd know what direction Bryn would go in. As for bringing a friend, I've been inundated with offers to help in the scenes with the hunky actors. I'll take my camera, but I don't think I'll have any spare hands to operate it.