Rin Tin

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Okay, who among us does not love to watch movies with well trained dogs? Dogs like Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Air Bud, and Pongo the Dalmatian? These dogs do cool dog tricks that are far beyond the basic dog training. Is it really possible for your average Tina to learn beyond dog obedience training?

Good news! Even a rescued dog can surely learn these adorable and simple dog tricks. I will show you how to get your dog to wave, play dead, dance, and crawl. These are actually easy tricks to teach dogs.

Before you begin teaching Tina to do dog tricks for entertainment purposes, it is essential for her to have mastered all the basic dog obedience commands. These include sit, down, stay, heel (left and right), come, as well as a long sit, down, or stay, and all commands performed off leash. The dog must also be able to handle distractions.

Let us start with showing Tina how to "shake," which follows with a wave session next. If Tina likes to use her paws, say "Good shake," and reward her with affection when she places her paw in your hand. If Tina does not like to use her paws, help her. Place her paw in your hand and tell her shake. Repeat the exercise three to five times in a row to drill it in and reinforce it, always using the same hand and the same paw.

Repeat this entire exercise session four to six times a day, but with no more than five iterations at once. This keeps Tina from getting bored.

Now that Tina has mastered shaking hands, ask her to sit in readiness for the next of her cool dog tricks - waving. Then put your hand out about an inch away from her. When she reaches for your hand, tell her "Good wave." Increase the distance a little more each time. If Tina gets frustrated, go back to the last time she waved and help her with the increased distance.

Always play with your dog for a few minutes after each training session. Playtimes keep the whole thing relaxed and fun. It is also important bonding time.

Ready for more cool dog tricks? If you want Tina to learn to crawl and play dead, begin with playing dead. Have Tina lie down. Either roll her on her side yourself, or use a favorite toy as an assistant. Tell her to "Stay dead." Before too long, you will only need the word "dead."

To teach Tina to crawl, have her lie down, and then tell her to stay a minute. Next, sit on the floor a couple of inches away. Keeping your hand just barely above the floor, motion for her to come. As she crawls, encourage her with calmly saying "Crawl; that-a-girl, crawl!" Reward her with affection, or use a favorite toy if you like.

Dancing is another of the popular tricks to teach dogs. You want your Tina to learn to dance around in a circle, but how? Form an "O" with your hand. Move your hand slowly in a circle, while moving your body around as necessary, to get your dog to follow your hand in a circular fashion. All the while you are saying, "Dance. Let's dance." (Or something similar.) If Tina jumps at your hand, make her sit, then get her on a heel and have her follow you with your hand still in the "O" position, your arm slowly moving in a circle. She will start to get the idea.

Next, you might teach Tina to dance standing on her back legs. This is especially easy if your dog likes to jump or stand for affection. Just set it up so that she is doing the motion, then give it a name (e.g., "dance" or "groove") and reward her for doing the motion. "Good Groove!"

As you see, your dog can learn how to do these simple dog tricks in a step by step process. Be aware, though, that Tina needs a motion first, which is then associated with a word. Otherwise, you give a word command and the dog becomes confused, anxious and frustrated, eager to please but not knowing how. It is easy for her to watch your hand, though. So, induce an action or reward a behavior, then give that behavior a name. Before you know it, your dog will amaze your friends, appearing as a dog movie star with impressive cool dog tricks!

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Dongs At Hollywood - The Real Stars Who Steal The Show!

From Rin Tin Tin and Old Yeller to Frazier's Eddie, dogs occupy a special place in American movie and television history. Their breeding and training is a multi-million dollar industry in its own right. Getting the right dog for the part can make the difference between a film or show succeeding or being a disastrously expensive flop. Rin Tin Tin is credited with single handedly, or four-pawedly, saving Warner Brothers Studios from bankruptcy. Dogs are as important as any human stars to the Hollywood machine in that respect and they are treated accordingly.

A dog on the screen will instantly focus the attention of viewers. Almost anyone can empathize with a dog. A dull film can be enlivened, poor acting can be eclipsed by canine appeal, and a bad script has no effect on a dog that just does what comes naturally.

The kind of roles that dogs have played in Hollywood films and American television express something of the place of the dog in popular imagination. In the early films that featured dogs the scene is always a rural one. These films are almost an off-shoot of the Western movie and contain many of the same themes.

Dogs like Rin Tin Tin, Old Yeller and Lassie express what philosophers and theologians have often regarded as the permanent things of human morality. They embody the virtues of loyalty, devotion, love, justice, bravery and self-sacrifice which are so often absent in modern society. They seem to take the viewer back to simpler time when these values were upheld.

A more knowing audience raised on horror films and choreographed violence was thought to be immune to the charms of the "dog movie." When Joe Camp pitched the idea of a film with a dog as the main character the studios dismissed his idea. It would never work they told him. Today's audiences just would not buy it.

So instead he made his film "Benjii" himself. It was a reshaping of the old theme with an edgier, urban dog who is rescued from an animal shelter. This lovable cross breed spoke to the issues of a more troubles society. The film became huge success. Benjii went on to stardom and the backers reaped a fortune out of merchandising "Benjii" toys.

With Eddie the canine character in the television show "Frazier" we see another take on the movie dog. Frazier the sophisticated pyschiatrist is brought back to the old verities of home and family loyalty by the little terrier. The dog acts a foil silently critiquing the behaviour of the urbane intellectual. His pomposities are punctured and his humanity is revealed in his relationship with the dog.

Doubtless the "dog movie" will morph into to further manifestations of the genre in the future. Hollywood knows when it is on to a moneyspinner.

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How in the world did Rin Tin Tin end up in France after he died?

He was from France.

Following Rin Tin Tin's death in 1932 in Los Angeles (in the arms of actress Jean Harlow, according to Hollywood legend), his owner arranged to have the dog returned to his country of birth for burial in the Cimetière des Chiens, the renowned pet cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine. He was 14 years old.

Richard D. Zanuck is a working legend
The industry scion, whose most recent success as a producer is 'Alice in Wonderland,' has little time for nostalgia -- there are movies to be made. Growing up with the last name Zanuck in Old Hollywood was just like real life -- only different.

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