A big congratulations to Bonnie and her canine CoStar Belle who cleaned up at the CW's Dog Honors last Wednesday. Belle & Bonnie won “Best Dog in Film” against tough competition, for Max’s character in “A Dogs Journey”. In addition to the main award they also accepted “Best Actor Playing a Dog” for Josh Gad who [...]
We were honoured to be chosen to continue the Journey started in "A Dog's Purpose". In this heart-warming. film we connect with the wonderful Bailey again as well as meet his many new incarnations, Molly, Big Dog and the irrepressible Max. We found some wonderful dogs to continue the role of Bailey. Odin was [...]
On "The Art of Racing in the Rain" Bonnie acted as the Canadian Animal Coordinator and with her company Canine CoStars of Canada provided and trained the Golden Retriever Puppies that played Enzo and his littermates.
We are always delighted to work with Producer, Richard Bullock. And his movie project " Peace" was no exception. For this movie we provided a wolf (Tundra) who performed a variety of A to B's (some of them several football fields in length). Various distance actions mimicking natural behaviour (such as drinking out of a [...]
For a Dog's Way Home, Bonnie acted as the Canadian Coordinator and provided Bella as a young puppy, Bella's mom and littermates puppies, momma cat and a variety of other cats and kittens for the early scenes of Bella being raised under the abandoned house. Cats were trained to do A to B's and retrieve [...]
Recently Bonnie got a chance to talk with Go TV Reporter, Tiffany Gurden and took her around her 5 acre Aldergrove property to meet her animals. Meet Tundra the wolf-hybrid, Fancy a terrier mix, Pickles the Tortoise, Buster the Capuchin, Sam the Lemur and several more, Also featured in the new dock diving and recreational [...]
Bonnie was featured in an interview with 24 hours Celebrity Spaces (Toronto) by postmedia reporter Marcy Cornblum. Read the full article here (Bonnie's interview is on page 18)
For this TV Movie we worked with productions smaller budget by presenting options of a variety of dogs that already had a lot of training (to cut down on the amount of prep days needed). First photos were sent and then production asked for a small video of each of the finalists to help them [...]
Recently, Bonnie was interviewed by Host Alexandria MacFarlane for the local Shaw TV series Go Fraser Valley. Bonnie talks about the joy of seeing the animal she's working start to "turn on the learning switch". Bonnie's assistant trainer, Brandy Yeager and coydog fee demonstrate going to marks and taking one step at time among other [...]
Bonnie and Ruckus got to talk Hollywood North with Global TV hosts Lynn Collier & Jay Durant. Ruckus was his usual hammy self and stole the show. Bonnie had trouble remembering the names of the show that she was training the dobermans ( Resident Evil). The short there were clips of was Dial Y for Yesterday. [...]