Sue Chipperton & Gidget

Sue Chipperton

Sue with Clint Eastwood

Originally from England I moved to the States when I was 19.  My training background started with marine mammals in Florida when I worked at Ocean World in Fort Lauderdale and trained dolphins, sea lions, seals and river otters.

For the past 16 years I have worked for Studio Animal Services training animals for movies, TV, commercials and print.  Mostly I train dogs. Although cats, birds, rats, squirrels...they all fall into my realm of training. Some days I get to take a cage full of rats to a CSI set on the back lot of Universal Studios, other days it might be a yellow Labrador running on the beach in Malibu, sometimes a cockroach on a wall. Always different, usually interesting.  Sometimes...you get to lay flat on your back in the pouring rain while Brad Pitt jumps over you on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles and you release pigeons as he passes over your limp, wet, pathetic looking body.  Not quite how I had imagined meeting him.  I have trained many dogs, but some of the highlights were Gidget the Taco Bell Dog and "Bruiser" the Chihuahua from the Legally Blonde movies.

I have also worked with a local search and rescue team and started training my cattle dog mix "Beans" as a search dog - unfortunately we could never complete our training due to my work schedule, but it is something I would like to pursue again in my future.

Currently I live north of Los Angeles with Beans, Tula (French bulldog), Hank (blue weimaraner) and Serious an English bulldog. 

 

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