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    The Business

    Animal Trainers

    We travel to the ranch of Birds & Animals Unlimited , an agency that has managed feathered and furry talent working in Hollywood for 40 years.

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    By Kim Masters • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    We travel to the ranch of Birds & Animals Unlimited, an agency that has managed feathered and furry talent working in Hollywood for 40 years. Kim Masters talks with Mathilde de Cagney, the animal trainer specializing in dogs whose credits include TV shows like Frasier and movies like Marley & Me, Hugo and Beginners; and David Sousa, an animal trainer who's worked with the owls on the Harry Potter films and the reindeer in Fred Claus.

    Mathilde de Cagney telling Kim how she works with Clyde, aka 'Marley,' of Marley & Me

    David Sousa with Crash the Owl.

    This is the same kind of owl that Sousa trained for the Harry Potter movies

    Mathilde de Cagney with a goat she trained for the Sacha Baron Cohen movie, The Dictator

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Darby Maloney

      Producer

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      Lea Thau

      Independent Producer, Creator of Strangers

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      Mathilde de Cagny

      animal trainer

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      David Sousa

      animal trainer

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