Lianne Hassen and ‘Tank’ her labrador retriever achieve another perfect score (100 points) in AKC Rally Excellent B.

Here is my slideshow of ‘Tank’, ‘Flip’ and ‘Trell’ having a great time playing by the pool all day!

Marvin Steeg’s German Shepherd ‘Lance’, Lianne Hassen’s dogs ‘Flip’ (Jack Russell Mix) & ‘Tank’ (Black Labrador Retriever), Mike Ferguson’s Pit Bull ‘Smooch’ and Kathy Springman’s Yorkshire Terrier ‘Halo’ posing in with the ‘Sit Means Sit’ Dog Training sign.

‘Sit Means Sit’ Trained Dogs, originally uploaded by Lianne Hassen.

‘Flip’ and her new boyfriend ‘Lance’ posing together : )

‘Flip’ & ‘Lance’, originally uploaded by Lianne Hassen.

‘Flip’ was chosen for a Nationwide ad in Las Vegas, Nevada. This included 2 days on-set for their photo shoot.

The first day was only a couple of hours posing with a family while their car was repaired by a Pit Crew in a driveway. ‘Flip’ knew the little girl that she was posing with from a prior ad she was in for a local community out here in Las Vegas which was nice.

The second day was much more intensive (8 hours) as we were scheduled on a road out near Lake Mead, which in the summer in Las Vegas, can be HOT. Luckily, there was an awesome RV for us to relax in and stay cool while we were on break. ‘Flip’ had to sit with the family again, but this time their was a helicopter hovering overhead shooting the photos of them. This was particularly difficult because I (Lianne) had to position myself at a great distance from ‘Flip’ so I wasn’t in the shot. In order to make things go smoothly, I gave the family the instructions on how to keep ‘Flip’ in a sit position. They did awesome!

In addition to the helicopter shot, we also had to do a shot with ‘Flip’ sticking her head out of the car window while the Pit Crew worked on the car. It was basically over an hour of ‘Flip’ having to hold her “Spread em” command out of the car window. The only complication was that the car had child safety windows, so it was difficult for ‘Flip’ to get good extension out of the car window, but we managed because she had such a good “Spread em” command.

All of the posing/acting that ‘Flip’ did was without her collar on. She was, as always, very reliable!

ANIMAL ACTOR | ‘FLIP’, originally uploaded by Lianne Hassen.

ANIMAL ACTOR | ‘FLIP’, originally uploaded by Lianne Hassen.

ANIMAL ACTOR | ‘FLIP’, originally uploaded by Lianne Hassen.

People tend to notice how happy our dogs are first and foremost. All of the cute tricks and high level of attention usually sparks peoples interest for a while. Then they notice the little black box on our dogs collar and that is when we usually hear the question “will the dog listen without the collar on?”. The answer is YES, infact, my dog ‘Tank’ has earned all of his titles without any equipment on and he is very reliable. You’ll see in this video that Ashton Fitz-Gerald and myself take the collars off of both ‘Pharoah’ and ‘Tank’ to demonstrate how well our dogs listen with the collar off.