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Peach Film School

The part nobody films. How a dog learns to hit a mark, hold a stay through a room full of strangers, and do it again on take nine. From a Goldendoodle who books national commercials.

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What a real set looks like

This is a supervised industry, not a vibe

People assume animal work is casual. On a legitimate production it is one of the most documented parts of the day, and knowing that is how you tell a real job from a bad one.

1,000+Productions monitored every year by American Humane Certified Animal Safety Representatives, across 30 countries.

Since 1940How long the No Animals Were Harmed program has been the industry sanctioned oversight for animals in filmed entertainment.

~100,000Animals protected on set annually under that program.

90%Roughly how much of a dog’s set day is doing nothing, on cue, while a crew solves a problem. That is the skill nobody tests for.

Sources: American Humane, No Animals Were Harmed program. The 90 percent figure is this handler’s own experience on commercial sets, not a published statistic, and is offered as such.

A production with no animal safety oversight and no clear plan for your dog is not a break. It is the job to say no to.

Season One, in production

The Episodes

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Peach working on a lit film set

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Film School

Hitting a mark. Holding a stay. Take nine.

Episode 1

Hitting a mark

The single most valuable thing a dog on set can do. How a mark is taught at home, long before there is a camera anywhere near her.

Episode 2

Holding a stay through chaos

Lights, cables, a boom over her head and fifteen strangers she has never met. The stay has to survive all of it, so it gets built in noise, not in silence.

Episode 3

The second currency

You cannot always feed a dog between takes. A dog who will work for a tug when there is no food on offer is worth real money on a set. How to build that second currency on purpose.

Episode 4

Strangers and eyelines

Ignoring a room that wants to pet her, and looking exactly where the shot needs her to look. Two skills that pull in opposite directions.

Episode 5

A booked day, start to finish

Call time to wrap on a real job. The waiting, the resets, the takes nobody uses, and what actually makes a dog easy to hire again.

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Who is teaching

Peach

A Goldendoodle dog actor and model based in Los Angeles, and a trained psychiatric service dog. Her credits include a national commercial for Concora Credit, a feature in The New Yorker, Jax and Bones, and Nylabone. Everything in this series is what she actually does on a job. See her full work or book her.