Yesterday there was a media fest out at Mark Vette's Animal Rescue park, where Narnia's pack of wolves is being kept for the duration of filming. The Holmes Show on TV1 has a video clip of the wolves and their trainers HERE - look under the heading "Narnia Wolves Say Goodbye."

Lamp Post Productions also sent out a press release about the wolves and their trainers:

"The film company imported ten wolves from Sled Reynolds' Los Angeles-based habitat, Gentle Jungle, one of Hollywood's foremost providers of domestic and exotic animals to the motion picture/television industry. Mr. Reynolds has been working with animals in Hollywood for over thirty years, and counts among his credits "Dances with Wolves," "Hannibal," "Gladiator," "The Ghost and the Darkness," and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," among dozens of others. He is assisted on-set by a team of trainers that includes Eadie MacMullen, who trained in Los Angeles in the renowned Exotic Animal Training program and has been affiliated with Gentle Jungle for ten years.

"The wolf pack brought into New Zealand for the film includes seven males and three females (six of whom are siblings). The two wolves who play the key characters of Maugrim and Vardan are two-year-old siblings Ricky and Bob (the voices of both have yet to be cast). The brothers are joined onscreen by siblings Mike, Ronnie, Sarah and Bella. Their father, Rio, who is now 10 years old, joins them on-camera, along with five-year-old male, Maverick, three-year-old Rugby and 4 1/2-year-old Luna, the third female of the pack.

"New Zealander Mark Vette is also a veteran of local filmmaking, with credits ranging from "The Piano" to "Once Were Warriors" to TV's "Hercules." Mr. Vette also runs a local rescue zoo called Animals on Q, a small Zoo set up to house forgotten circus animals. When the previous owner could no longer cope with caring for the animals, Mr. Vette and his wife, Rosie, took possession of the 200 animals in July 2003. The couple has worked around the clock upgrading rundown enclosures and ensuring the Zoo’s inhabitants are healthy and happy."