WEST MILFORD “I wish each one of the owners that just dropped these dogs off could see them now,” said Cindy Mauro. She has owned and trained rescue dogs since 1978 and currently lives with five four pomeranians and one golden retriever. Three of the pomeranians are starring in an Intel commercial, due out next month. And no, Mauro did not train them to act. She works at the American Canine Academy in Hawthorne and one day her friend Dory, who runs the academy showed her an ad looking for a female dog trainer over 40 with a dog under 25 pounds to audition for a commercial. She answered it, and sent in a picture of Cayenne, one of the pomeranians. Cayenne was found wandering the streets of Paterson, infested with fleas. He had a raging ear infection, smelled horrific and had a rat glue trap stuck to his chest. Today, he is the handsome little firecracker in the picture to the left. Cindy and Cayenne were invited to audition, but when she mentioned she had two others, Kukala and Ollie (the fourth pomeranian was too old and shy), she was told to bring them along too. Tobias Perse, the director, said he knew immediately that Mauro and her dogs would be perfect. “She has such a warm rapport with the dogs, there’s no artifice. And the dogs they totally rock!” The commercial was filmed in Mauro’s small West Milford home and all three of the pomeranians are in it, along with Mauro. The concept is that Mauro makes a dog door out of her old laptop. Perse said the dogs did great and he expects the commercial to be on the internet sometime next month. Mauro said the whole experience was fun, but was more interested in people seeing what was possible with rescue dogs. She said that all her dogs are AKC registered. “If you have a particular breed you want, I guarantee that some shelter somewhere has a pure bred living in a cage. It takes time and patience,” she warns, “but it’s worth it.” Ollie, one of the other pomeranians in the commercial is also a trained therapy dog and well known to the residents at Van Dyke assisted living. Emma, Mauro’s golden retriever, had been a therapy dog but is now retired, as she is getting old. Mauro encourages people to get their dogs certified for therapy. It doesn’t require much the dog just has to be comfortable around people. The rewards, she said, are well worth it. Sick children light up when a dog visits them in the hospital. “It’s magical,” she said.