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Originally Posted by atravis
From Rin Tin Tin's own website:
"Duncan worked with the dogs training them to perform as he had seen the German war dogs perform during the war."
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Performing behaviors similar to war dogs for a movie does not in any way, shape or form make a dog a war dog. As anyone who works dogs doing protection or rescue or search work or herding or anything else knows, there is a world of difference between being trained to do it and actually doing it in the real world. And likewise, there is a world of difference between being trained to perform behaviors that look like it, and actually being trained for it much less doing it for real.
A dog working with constant commands, direction and feedback from an off camera handler to appear to be rescuing someone from a burning building is not even remotely the same as a dog making the choice of his own violition to rescue someone from a burning building and then pulling it off on his own. Film gives the impression of canine superheros with genius IQs, but it is only an impression.
Sadly for the dogs, while everyone seems to realize actors are just acting and Stallone really isn't Rambo and Daniel Craig isn't really a superspy and Daniel Radcliffe isn't really a teenage wizard, they seem to often think that animal actors are for real. Hence all the dog breed fads with each new Disney movie.