Performing with his father since age 6, Nicholas - also a recording artist, releasing his first album “Think Big,” on Domo Records in 2013 - took on more responsibilities as he got older and now serves as Richard’s right-hand man in Olate Dogs. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - Olate Dogs has appeared in two short films: “Le Sauvetage (The Rescue)” and “Dog’s Best Friend.” The latter film, the second in the #RescueFilm series created by Peter McEvilley, celebrates rescue pets and promotes pet adoption. In addition to live shows - including performances with the Big Apple Circus and Ringling Bros. More than 40 years later, Richard, along with wife, Rebecca, and Nicholas, rescue dogs from shelters and homes and train them to be part of their professional troupe.

Richard, a third-generation circus performer, developed his act on the streets of his native Chile, South America, when he was 12. Upon winning “AGT,” Olate Dogs snared $1 million and headlined the “America’s Got Talent Live in Las Vegas” stage show at The Palazzo in Las Vegas in 20. Joe, a poodle mix, and Sodi, a Maltese, are retired.Īside from the aforementioned car-driving, Olate Dogs’ arsenal of tricks include: scooter-riding, an all-dog conga line, backflips, walking and jumping rope on hind legs, jumping tricks and the wheelbarrow, for which one dog walks on its front legs while another pushes from behind on its rear legs. Millions of viewers witnessed Olate Dogs’ high-energy, fast-paced tricks in 2012 during the seventh season of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” Now, Pocono-area residents have the chance to see the “AGT”-winning act up close during a performance Saturday at Mauch Chunk Opera House, Jim Thorpe.īased in Commerce, Texas, Olate Dogs features father and son Richard and Nicholas Olate, plus 11 pups: Willy, a mini-poodle mix Cholo, a schnoodle (schnauzer/poodle mix) who famously “drove” a car on stage in the 2012 “AGT” finale Benny and Bob, schnoodles Maggie, Lili and Bella, labradoodles Loca, a Yorkie/Poodle mix Oso, a standard poodle and Toby and Copo, poodle mixes. Olate Dogs to showcase million-dollar backflips and more in Jim Thorpe

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