Bucks Dog Trainer Choreographs The Fun On Animal Planet’s “Puppy Bowl”

DOYLESTOWN, PA — Bucks County’s Victoria Schade will be tuning into the “big game” on Super Bowl Sunday, only this one will contain a lot of barking and cute and cuddly puppies.

Schade is the lead animal wrangler for Animal Planet’s hugely well known “Puppy Bowl,” which this yr will pit Crew Fluff towards Staff Ruff as lovable puppies “play” soccer within Puppy dog Bowl Stadium for the “Lombarky” Trophy.

“The Super Bowl this calendar year is of course heading to be a big draw. But there is very little cuter than puppies owning pleasurable jointly on a football discipline. It’s the cutest show you could observe,” reported Schade, who took element in the taping of this year’s software last October in Glens Falls, New York.

“It’s in essence soccer with puppies. They are scoring touchdowns. We’ll have puppies napping on the industry. They perform with every single other. They give lovable very little facial expressions. It is just an lovable spectacle,” she said.

(Animal Earth Pet Bowl picture)

The mission powering the show, mentioned Schade, is to bring consciousness to the adoption and rescue of canine and puppies.

“The message is foster, rescue, adoption – all the items we can do to get these puppies into great properties,” she stated.

Much more than 120 adoptable puppies from 67 shelters and rescues will be taking part in this year’s show, which include a range of specific requires canine,” she said. “They are offered by 34 shelters from throughout the United States.

“There are so a lot of distinct forms of puppies out there by way of the rescue method,” mentioned Schade. “It’s a fantastic way to open up peoples’ eyes to the forms of canine that are out there.”

Working driving the scenes on the present, Schade will help pull off what Animal World describes as a “fur-tastic battle” that normally takes spot on the grand gridiron of Pup Bowl Stadium.

“Any of the directed action that we want to capture, 9 moments out of 10 I am the one who is choreographing it and producing it take place,” said Schade. “And these are untrained animals, mind you. It truly is not like they are bringing experienced, set-clever animals. I am doing the job with these little small puppies who have no clue what’s going on. So I’ll use my tricks of the trade to coax performances from them.”

For case in point, she claimed when the recreation opens they’ll participate in the Countrywide Anthem and viewers will see the animals hunting up at the flag.

(Animal Earth Dog Bowl)

“They are actually searching up at me with my little treats,” she stated.

There’s also a scene at the conclusion the place two puppies are sitting down on either side of the Lombarky Trophy.

“Again, these are untrained puppies so I have to use all of my tips to get them to sit, keep for a excellent 30 seconds, which is not uncomplicated,” she stated.

“Then there’s the starting lineups. Ahead of engage in starts, they introduce the gamers to the subject and they come running out of this tunnel and there’s dry ice and smoke and it is very remarkable. And I am kneeling throughout the discipline going ‘come to me, appear to me.’

“It’s overpowering for the reason that they get to the edge of that tunnel and they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh. There are lights and people.’ But then they listen to me calling and understand I have received treats and it’s a safe area for them to go,” she said. “And they operate across the discipline to me.

“I’m essentially on set the overall time,” she said. “It’s a large amount of exciting. And it is my favorite 7 days of the calendar year.”

Schade, who has been schooling dogs for two a long time, first got concerned with the Puppy dog Bowl 17 a long time ago following a cameraman she was working with to produce one of her instruction films requested if she’d like to get included in the display.

“That was back before any person ever listened to of the display,” she stated. “Today, it is my declare to fame.”

Schade is also an achieved author and writer, penning two doggy schooling publications, “Bonding with Your Dog” and “Secrets of a Pet Coach.”

She has also authored 4 novels, “Life on the Leash,” “Who Rescued Who,” “Lost, Identified, and Forever” and “Dog Friendly” with a fifth guide to be released in September entitled “Unleashed Holiday.”

Schade draws on her knowledge with a canine forged to produce her characters. All of her novels include things like popular pups that gain above the coronary heart.

Longtime Doylestown inhabitants may keep in mind Schade from her 42 East State Road shop. She operated “Life On the Leash” for six many years in Doylestown Borough.

She lives in Doylestown with her husband, Tom her puppies Millie, a easy Brussels griffon Olive, a mixed breed canine and the occasional foster pup.

The Pup Bowl begins with a pregame plan at 1 p.m. adopted by the game at 2 p.m. The Pup Bowl will air on a few networks – Animal Earth, TBS and the Discovery Channel – and two streaming platforms – discovery+ and HBO Max.