Movie Snakes
Movie Dogs
Recently my own dog, Ollie the wonder dog,(Silky Terrier Shimdan's Oliver Bartok, ME) was in an independent movie. When I'm not snakeproofing dogs, I write--four screenplays and two novels to date.
The movie, called Service Dog, is a romantic comedy short that I penned several summers ago.
It's about a cute twenty something girl who wants to change her boy friend from being a world class slob to just a slob--a regular guy. She thinks that if she gets him a dog he will have something else to do rather than drink beer, play sports and write computer programs. And her plan works...sort of.Novels
My first novel is titled: Vitamin Wow, an action adventure set in Saudi Arabia and can be found on Amazon. The second novel titled, The Strain Ten Corollary, is about how one man solves the illegal immigration problem in Arizona. The book is also available at Amazon both as a softcover book and a Kindle e-book.
Movie Snakes
The snakes we use for training are four female western diamondbacks. We know they're females because the first year we had them they all had babies. (Goliath had 13, Big Momma 10, Juliet 5, and Comso 5. )
These snakes have appeared on local TV, but recently they were featured in a movie. The movie, titled Purgatory, AZ was produced by BigBrain Productions, an Arizona film company.
In the opening scene, the lead character is bitten by a rattlesnake (played by Viper Voidance's own Goliath) and winds up in Purgatory (AZ). The movie may be available sometime in 2008.
SUPER BOWL 2008
The first weekend of January 2008 the "girls" went on a video shoot. All four snakes were there and three were featured. These snakes do a great sit-stay. Actually, it's more like a sit-rattle. (a little snake humor there.)
The producers wanted shots of rattlesnakes, so when the broadcaster comes back from a commercial, the viewing public will be reminded of where the Super Bowl is being played. (Humm, using that logic, the entire world will think that Arizona is infested with rattlesnakes.) So, if you watched the 2008 Super Bowl and saw a rattlesnake next to a: football helmet, football, or a cowboy hat and rope, it was a Viper Voidance snake.
We've returned (January 2010) from The Vulture Mine in Wickenburg, Arizona. The TV series Ghost Adventures was filming an episode there and wanted rattlesnakes for cut-a-way shots. It was cold and raining and the girls only wanted to get back in the cage; however, the crew got the shots they needed. Episode aired October, 2010, and can be seen on reruns.
Summer 2010-- we spent the day on the location of an independent movie titled Sedona The Movie. It's billed as a family feel good movie. They needed a rattlesnake for one of the shots and the girls got some movie work--Goliath didn't go because she was getting ready to shed and she looked pretty scruffy--the snake equivalent of no makeup and hair in rollers.