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Breed:

Golden Retriever

Age:

Location:

East Sussex, South East

Bio:

Barlie is a male Golden Retriever model with a cheeky & confident personality, he has a relaxed and friendly temperament. He is a real people pleaser, loves children. This Golden Retriever model, is also great with small furry animals, having been brought up with guinea pigs and hamsters.

Barlie has his kennel club bronze, silver, and gold in good citizens (obedience) certificate. In addition, he has his novice, intermediate, advanced, expert, and champion trick dog certificates. Barlie is the first Golden Retriever in the UK to receive this. Overall, he is adaptable to learning new tasks possesses a good paw, nose, chin target, and is not camera shy.

Lastly, this handsome animal actor has a huge array of experience under his belt making him an exceptional pet talent for a wide variety of acting roles.

Training checklist:

- Animal-friendly

- Back up

- Balance on object

- Beg

- Bow

- Can be placed in position

- Can work outdoors

- Can work with water

- Cat-friendly

- Catch a treat

- Catch an item

- Child-friendly

- Clicker trained

- Dog-friendly

- Down

- Drop item

- Eat/drink in new environment

- Fetch item

- Fetch items from water

- Follow a target

- Food motivated

- Give paw

- Go around object/person

- Go to bed

- Go to mark

- Go under/through

- Good with small furries

- Hairdryer-friendly

- Happy to be groomed

- Happy to be handled

- Harness/lead trained

- Head down

- Head on object

- Head to floor

- High five

- Hold item

- Hold pose

- Jump into/out of a car boot

- Jump up/on/over an object

- Leave item

- Licks lips on command

- Lie down

- Look at me

- Look at point

- Open/close door

- Paws up on object

- People-friendly

- Place item

- Play ball

- Positional work

- Product placement

- Pull object

- Rest head

- Rollover

- Send away

- Sit

- Speak/Bark

- Stand on hind legs

- Stay

- Touch item

- Touch with nose

- Trick trained

- Vacuum-friendly

- Vet-friendly

- Walk backwards

- Whisper

- Work from a distance

- Works with props

Experience:

Firstly, he was filmed for an intelligent pet documentary due for release on Channel 5 & he has pet modelling experience having worked on a photography shoot for Beco pets. He has filmed for Shark Ninja with a model family and worked very well.

In addition, Barlie’s recent credits include work with Matalan and several appearances with Dyson.

Finally, Barlie’s latest adventures were with Paw5 in a product placement shoot for a snuffle mat and 2021 British biographical comedy-drama film directed by Craig Roberts, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN.