Dave Blank trains dogs for final scene for action TV series
"Missing Persons"
Dave Blank was hired by the production company for a
television series called
"Missing Persons". to select and train eight dog & handler teams for an episode. The
story line was about a creep who kidnapped a kid in a large downtown Chicago
department store.
The dogs
first needed to track the criminal through the store.
Dave said "That was the easy part.. The bigger training challenge was selecting
the teams where all four dogs could work together in the close quarters of an elevator."
In the final scene for this episode, the
kidnapper was hiding on top of the elevator.
All 4
dogs needed to “jump and bark like crazy towards the trap door in the ceiling of the
elevator."
To
train for the elevator part, Dave had the production company build a mock
elevator inside of a big warehouse. That’s
where the initial training took place.
Then
they moved to training to real elevators just before filming the episode.
In
the actual filming of the episode, Dave was on top of the elevator waving a
protection sleeve in front of the dogs, above the open trap door.
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