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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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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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The Borgias – Jeremy Irons and the deer Two seasons of the popular TV series have been shot in Hungary. From some of the newsreels on the stars of the series we even learnt that Jeremy Irons has a passion for motorcycling
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Everything you always wanted to know about animal training, but were afraid to ask… In the past years the HORKAI Animal Training Center has earned a leading role in animal consultation, training and filming in the international and regional film production communities with its European wild animals and numerous domesticated animals.
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We have a Jägermeister deer Misi, our beautiful red deer stag lent his face (and antlers) to a Jägermeister commercial shot in Hungary
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John Cusack has no fear whatsoever of racoons We were shooting in Serbia with John Cusack, the star of many hit films from the last two decades
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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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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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Bears <div>The brown bear can be found in about the half of the Eurasian continent, in Alaska and the western part of the USA and Canada. It has several subspecies – the ones living at the HORKAI Animal Training Center are European brown bears. <br />
In the nature they are fundamentally lonely animals, but more bears may gather in case of a baggy food source. At the Center the five bears live in the same enclosure with some wolves. Although there are some disagreements occasionally, but they get on well together most of the time.<br />
They are omnivorous but our bears have some unique differences in their food. Brumi, the oldest male bear was vegetarian for a long time; he was not willing to eat meat, but considered Coca-Cola as a natural dietary supplement... <br />
Their mating period is in summer, the small pups are born in winter blind and bare. The pups weigh 340-680 grams and are guinea pig-sized, but they start growing quickly in the first 3 months due to the rich milk of their mother. When raising them up we tried to replace their natural food with baby nutriment. There was no trouble until we had something to give in their mouths, but as soon as the milk ran out we were less enthusiastic participants of a huge hissy…..<br />
In the course of work we have to be much more cautious compared to the wolves. The bear is not able to „speak” so understandably, its small ears and tail do not enable the wide scale of body language as compared to e.g. wolves. When working or filming an electrical fence separates the bears from the rest of the staff members in most cases. <br />
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Wolves and trainers <div>The majority of the animals living in the Centre are playing in films, and as they are wild animals we must start to build up the relationship with them from a very young age – this is the basis for all future activities. It does not mean a classic training schedule: we try to make the animals get used to human environment first. The training and preparation for filming begins only at a later stage. We take away the pups from their mother before their eyes open at 10-14 days of age and then let them spend most of their times with us as pups.</div>
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<div>We socialized all wolves living at the HORKAI Animal Training Center one by one: each wolf pup got a “stepmother” who took the helpless kid with herself everywhere. They went to school and cinema together and traveled by tram, subway, trains, etc.. With the help of a baby-kangaroo worn in the neck we were able to stay in physical contact with our little clients. Another method was raising the pups in pack: we made 7 or 11 pups get used to human environment at the same time. Of course it means fewer stimuli to an animal compared to individual upbringing. With one animal you can be mobile but carrying 5 or more animals is rather circumstantial.</div>
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<div>We have not observed the negative effects of raising the pups this way: we think that the personality of the animal counts a lot more beyond the educational circumstances. We have one wolf that was brought up alone and even this way he became rather shy and mistrustful, while its companion has grown up in pack and still become much more friendly and trustful with people. Circumstances may change but one thing is always the same: we never punish young wolves. Consequently, if they chewed our favourite book or peed in our shoes we never scolded them as this could endanger our future contact. The animal raised this way will be scared, or - what is even worse - may become aggressive. So we had only one chance: we took a deep breath and tried to pay attention to the sunny sides of raising up wolves...</div>
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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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Wild boars <div>The wild boar is one of the most popular fair games in Hungary, but very few people are aware of its behaviour.<br />
There are 30 wild boars at the HORKAI Animal Training Center in herds of different size and combination. <br />
In the nature the leader sow stands on the top of the herd who is the eldest and most experienced sow. In captivity where the sows are kept together with the bigger males usually the largest males will be the leaders of the herd. It is the same at the Center: Sany and Lali the two eldest boars are the leaders of two groups. But while our relation is perfect with Lali, working with is as smooth as an operator, you must think twice before going in to Sanyi’s territory. The difference comes from the personality of the two animals: their raising circumstances were identical. <br />
Hand raising a wild boar is not an easy task. The piglets require their milk portions every 3 hours with loud squeaking, not sparing our rest in the middle of the night also. With wild boars it’s not necessary to take them away from their mother as the small ones will be tame with a tame mother. <br />
The members of the herd live in a very close relationship, frequent body contact is typical of them. This characteristic is often applied to us also: Yoda, the mini pig living in the flat can sleep only snuggling up to somebody tightly. <br />
The basis of their orientation is mostly sound and smell, their eyesight is rather weak. You should not let their dumpy and slightly clumsy body mislead you, they are very fast runners. <br />
You may also misunderstand their intention if you do not know them well. If a wild boar living in the Centre sprints squealing towards somebody, and when getting to him pushes him over with spinning-top movement, you should not get frightened: the boar is only playing. But if it approaches with standing bristles, sliding slightly (hipshot), then it’s worth looking for a nearby suitable object that you can jump on…<br />
In the course of shooting training has a much more important role: they are not willing to work until spending days in the strange and new environment. So it is of primary importance to introduce the animal to the scene of his prospective workplace already days before the project.</div>

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Feeding wolves
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Wolf pups 2.

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