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Dear Zoltan

by chance I found your video on youtube and now your homepage. Very interess!!! Me and my wife are very interessted in wolves too and wonna ask/offer you, our dogs for film/movie if you mayd need? If yes, contact us, thanks!
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Hello! I am very interested in owning wolves just like you. I don't know the specifics and I am saving up the money, but do you have a general idea where owning wolves is ideal? I would not want to raise it anywhere where they would be too confined and I would need to familiarize myself with the behavior of wolves, of course. Thank you!
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Dear Zoltan

I wanted to enquire about filming with Wolves for the forthcoming series of Merlin.

Our opening sequence features wolves and we would be looking to get the following shots on snow:

1. Top shot of wolf guarding unconscious person
2. Top shot of wolf looking submissive
3. Running shots - left to right
4. leap up towards camera
5. howl up to camera
6. running right to left - this will then be a composite shot of wolves pulling our actress on a sleid.
7. Growls/snarls etc.

It would be great if you could let me know if this would be possible, how long do you think we would need to achieve these shots, could you recommend a local camera operator, very importantly when we would need to shoot to guarantee that we can get the shots in snow and of course an idea of costs.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes

Sara
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Hi the team ! Sorry for the long time... The title in French is "Quand les loups font leur cinéma". Bye.
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The Secret of Moonacre trailer In Hungary Gabor Csupo’s (the father of the Simpson”s) fantasy called the Secret of Moonacre was opening in November 2009. All animals in the movie were trained and supplied for the production by the HORKAI Animal Training Center.
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Nicholas Cage is on a witch-hunt... ... and in the meantime he fights some blood-thirsty wolves in the Hungarian forests. The wolves were made blood-thirsty by us of course…
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Colin Farrel and the wolves The many times Oscar nominated director, Peter Weir’s newest work takes place in World Ware II with Colin Farrel and Ed Harris in the leading roles. They chase away hungry wolves from a carcass in on of the scenes shot in Bulgaria. Certainly the HORKAI Animal Training Center trained the wolves for the picture.
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Shooting \"Eagle of the Ninth\" with Donald Sutherland One of the most significant movies shooting for us in Hungary in 2009 was the “Eagle of the Ninth” with Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland in the leading roles. All animal actors were trained by the HORKAI Animal Training Center.
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Blood & Chocolate 2nd Unit - Director’s cut - with Olivier Martinez Finally Marcus Goller, the 2nd unit director of Blood and Chocolate has compiled the best scenes of 2nd unit shooting. In the video below you can watch a lot of wolf scenes that were left out of the movie. Unforgettable.
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Rutger Hauer hunts for wild boars In the last work of the famous Italian director Renzo Martinelli it is Rutger Hauer playing Frederick Barbarossa who, whilst working on occupying Milan, takes some time to hunt for wild boars in the forests. Certainly it was the Lali/Lizi tandem that made the stunts and the replicant himself sweat a little...
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Filming with animals <div>Filming with animals is a complicated task: one would think that taking a nice pet that sits and stops at home on command to a film shooting is all what it takes.<br />
Reality is all too much different however: the animal that works perfectly at home for the owner is not used to the chaotic and crowded filming location with all its machines, noises and smells. And this animal in a sudden moment vanishes from the spot if it can – animals larger in size like horses or cows have a more difficult task without ruining the environment, while predators on the run can jeopardize the physical health of the crew.  <br />
Animals in the film industry must also be capable of repeating the tasks several times let this task be the simplest running or the most complicated stunt scene. Consequently it is of primary importance for film makers to work with highly trained animals and prepared trainers as they can save a lot of valuable time and tons of production dollars. <br />
Everyone involved in show business knows it: it is the hardest to work with children and animals… Professionally trained animals however can do miracles: in one of our filming projects our wolves completed the same task in 2 hours that took 1 complete day for the actors to do (they had to jump through an obstacle and arrive to a certain points that were marked by the actors’ jumps previously)… <br />
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Other animals <div>Except for the animals presented in our other albums we were making films with several other smaller or larger kinds from ants to huge Hungarian grey cows. <br />
One of the biggest challenges is when we have to work with animals that are impossible to motivate or have no learning abilities so we have to solve the problems with some tricks. Examples of these animals are ants, bees, flies, wasps, etc.  <br />
We learned a lot about foxes and raccoons along the years. Their motivation is not so strong in a strange environment: the discovery of a new place or their attempts to leave the enclosure keeps them busy. With a raccoon it is especially difficult to work with as reaching a certain age these animals can be aggressive towards their owner as well.<br />
Hungarian grey cows are very popular among film makers: these animals are typical of Hungary and they fit well in a medieval or ancient roman environment. Most of the time they appear in ox carts in films. Their transport is extremely complicated and costly and the fact that they weigh around 1 ton it and the span of their horns is around 2 meters it makes work with them rather complicated, One of the most memorable tasks we had with them when we had to drive a herd over on a dead channel of a river – the Hungarian grey cows had to learn to swim this time……</div>

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Dogs <div>One could expect that it is much easier to work with dogs compared to wild animals. On one hand it is true: they can be taught easily and can execute even complicated tasks for rewards or good words. On the contrary the selection of the suitable animal is a long process. Although a continuously expanding pool of “characters” are available for us wherein most kinds of dogs are represented, we still have the most difficulties with mutts. For film productions or commercial we are presented with a fixed idea: the producer or the director has clear expectations regarding the appearance of the suitable dog and the tasks it has to accomplish and these for sure are not always easy to meet for several reasons. <br />
One of them is the insufficient knowledge of the different kinds on the client’s part: not all dogs are suitable for all tasks. But, even if the appearance of the dog is fine, its personal characteristics might not make him suitable for the given task. That is why it happens quite regularly – especially when the dog has to perform different character types in the given production – that we use more of the same looking (or same kind) of dogs each of them trained for a set of behaviour types: one of the is trained to be aggressive, while the other one is kind and gentle and licks the main character’s hand, etc.<br />
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Only wolves <div>Except for man the wolf is the most widespread predator. It has several subspecies that are different in their appearance as they have to adapt to highly diverse environments. The wolves living at the HORKAI Animal Training Center are European grey wolves with a greyish-russet fur coat. <br />
In the nature they are living in organized family groups called packs. It’s the same at the Center, but the main difference is that here man is a member of the pack. But while Zoltan is regarded as an active member of the hierarchy and tested to be repelled from the leader\ Among the members of the pack a severe hierarchy prevails in which each single animal knows its own and his companions\' position. There is a separate hierarchy between males and females, but this may change in captivity as we observed many times when a female dominated her male companion in a lower position.
The hierarchy debates intensify in January, the dominance fights are stronger and the mating begins. It is necessary to deal with the wolves with increased carefulness at this time,  you need to consider their wild instincts. Working with them requires special attention and awareness in this season.  
The communication of the wolves is exceptionally sophisticated. One of its most important elements is the body language where the long shaggy tail plays the most important role. In the past years our experiences taught us a lot on how we should interpret this complicated language - although we are still learning day by day. If for example a grumbling wolf waits for us with a rigid body at the gate of the enclosure with his tail raised up for the sky and his hair jarring, we better walk away. That means our presence is undesirable and we can only enter for our own risk. If the receiving wolf draws his body with scraped ears while it is waving his tail vividly, it means that we may enter without any problem.
Our special relationship with the wolves is best highlighted by the fact that they allowed us to film the pups\' births many times. The pups are born at the end of April/beginning of May with closed eyes and ears that will be open when they are 10-14 days of age. As a necessary basis for our future relationship with the animal this is the ideal time to separate the pups from their mothers and to start raising them from bottle. ' />

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