Sometimes working on location can be challenging enough, even without the animals. However, most of the location managers with whom I've worked over the years know the score. They know what's important from the animal handler's/wrangler's perspective and just as importantly from the animals' perspective. If they don't, it's part of my job or any animal handler to brief them as to what will make the filming experience with the animals on location as sensible and therefore as easy for the director as is possible. So an early conversation between the animal handler, the production office and the...