I used to work on a ton of dog shoots for different dog food brands ( worked with "Lassie" once for gravy train)
Once, we were to shoot a dog running to a bowl of food and rented ASCOR strobes because they were the best thing
for freezing action. Well, they strobe were so LOUD that all the dogs brought in for the shoot were spooked and we
had to use plain old speedotron strobes and try and freeze the action as much as we could.
IF any of the dogs were panting on set the dog wrangler would give them peanut butter on the roof of their mouths
and that kept the tongue in for a while...