 Working
Cats
Scott and
I have had great pleasure in training British Shorthairs to work in the
entertainment industry. We owned and trained the Doberman "Lads"
from the Magnum P.I. series. We also owned and trained the
original Fancy Feast Cat, SH III with a back up named "Maybe."
"Shithead" passed away in 1997 at the age of 20. "Maybe" continues
on. Thora and an assistant Mil trained and worked the original "Spot,"
Data's cat in Star Trek TNG, a ruddy Somali named "Liberty."
"Liberty" even has his own trading card.
Scott started
doing the Friskies commercials many years before. Remember
the whole line of cats? One would nudge the other to the next food bowl.
While Scott and I traveled with SH III doing cat shows, Scott formed the
first Friskies Cat Team, consisting of Liberty, Nitro, Monty and Woody.
We then started traveling with the whole mob to many CFA cat shows across
the country. In 1996, we parted company with Friskies and we have
continued to do numerous other projects including the Friskies Dental Care
with our Brown Tabby British.
The following
Brits have also worked for us:
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Lochridge Davy----Lochridge
Dynamite (movie: Beaches)
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Lochridge Davy---Lochridge
Dynamite---GC Bemy Yankee Doodle Dandy "Monty" (movie: PET SEMATARY)
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Lochridge Jabba
The Hut--- (movie: PET SEMATARY)
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Lochridge Jabba
The Hut----GC Bemy Yankee Doodle Dandy (movie: DARK MAN)
Jabba and Monty
continued on to do other t.v. movies and commercials. Jabba was the
only cat that could walk in and do a job without any pretraining.
THANK
YOU TO THE FOLLOWING BREEDERS:
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Art Lochridge
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Betty Jane
Myjak
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Monty
snarling at Garfield
Pet Sematary
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Church
checking out the graveyard
Pet Sematary
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Church
in ear tufts and Dippity Do
Pet Sematary
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Makeup
session
Pet Sematary
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I
might have found something!
Pet Sematary
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Author
Stephen King, his sons, and Church
Pet Sematary
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Scott
with the Fancy Feast cat and Spot from Star Trek
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Darkman
and Jabba
Darkman
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Monty and Darkman's hand
Darkman
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Jabba
preparing for a scene
Darkman
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Jabba
in the laboratory
Darkman
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Weege
and Mouse, two of the original Friskies cats, with Scott
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Scott
and Thora with SH the III the original Fancy Feast Cat
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Tom
Selleck, John Hillerman, and the Lads from Magnun PI
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Tom
Selleck and the Rotts,
Magnum PI
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of the lads, "Brutus", developed Wobblers Syndrome which affects some dobermans.
Surgery was performed on his neck and steel bars were inserted to stabilize
his spine. After the surgery had healed, he was still experiencing
some pain. I contacted a well-known animal psychic, Samantha Khury,
who started working on Brutus. The pain started diminishing. Samantha
suggested that we do accupuncture and she recommended.
Ginger did the acupuncture with the guidance of Samantha as to where the
needles should go. The relief of Brutus's pain was immediate. Ginger
and Sam accomplished what the vets and drugs could not. I gave Ginger
a lot of credit for doing this, as she was deathly afraid of '"Brutus"
at the beginning.
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