Fans have always slobbered over Steve and drooled over Danno. But it’s the newest cast member of Hawaii Five-0 who gets our tails wagging: Eddie!
Eddie Five-0 After the cover shoot, Island Dog sat down with his owner and trainer, Sue Chipperton, who shared tales of Eddie and her own fascinating story of a life training animals. STORY BY JOHN HARMON OPENING PHOTO BY ASHLEY SMITH
ID: What’s it like working with your dog? Sue: It’s fabulous! You get up, put your dog in the car, and go to work with him. And get paid! ID: And he brings home the paycheck! Sue: It couldn’t be any better, really. I love it! And nobody knows him better. Sometimes little idiosyncrasies come up working with other peoples’ dogs on set, like, “Oh, I didn’t realize that dog doesn’t like men in hats.” But with Eddie, I pretty much know what he’s thinking. ID: Tell us about Eddie. Sue: Eddie is the most loving dog I’ve ever had. He loves every living creature, whether it’s a human or a cow or a goat or a kitten or a duck. He wants to meet it. He wants to kiss it. The ranch that we live on has cows and horses and sheep and goats and some of them come up to where Eddie can just get his head through the fence. I’ll look down and he’ll be washing the head of a cow, licking it furiously. Then the cows line up, even a couple of goats, and it’s like Eddie’s Drive-Thru Cow Wash! He also wants to do that with every person he meets, so it can be challenging when we’re working and I need him to focus.
40 ISLAND DOG MAGAZINE • SPRING 2018