Just a Dog Podcast · Episode 38 · August 29, 2026 · 57 min

Dogs at work | What content creators can learn from Hollywood dog trainers | Julie Strang | Cue the Dogs

Julie Strang is a Hollywood animal trainer and founder of Cue the Dogs. She has trained animals for film and television since 2000, including Dog, John Wick 3 and 4, Fallout, and Lioness, as well as more than 200 national ad campaigns. She now teaches guardians how to train their dogs for the camera and get paid for brand work. In this episode, we talk about how dogs get cast, who owns them, where they come from, what a day on set is like for them, how much rest they get, how they are trained, and what happens when a dog doesn't want to work. We also talk about what changes now that the same work is happening on phones at home. If you have ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes with dog actors in films and adverts, or whether it's fair on the dogs, this episode is for you. -- Julie Strang is based in Charleston, South Carolina, and lives with Lana Five, a Belgian Malinois she met on the set of Dog in 2020. Find Julie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cuethedogs/ New episodes of Just a Dog Podcast every second Monday. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justadogpodcast/ Substack: https://goofles.substack.com/subscribe If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch at [email protected]