#combo tricks
Egg combining her weave skills with her basketball skills - she did a great job!
Trick tutorial on training rats to play basketball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMf3wUl89nE
Trick tutorial on training rats to weave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bz4EXnFa78
Olive practicing the fetch the mail trick using the smaller mailbox prop - she’s doing a great job!
Trick tutorial for the “fetch the mail” trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgpMg56ENJM
Trick tutorial on training a rat to fetch (prerequisite trick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsALU4xbzo
Donut working on a fun short agility course - agility courses are her favorite and so we practice various setups quite often!
Trick tutorial on training rats to fetch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsALU4xbzo
Trick tutorial on training a rat agility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Q-vAIpNME
Donut working a fun new agility course with weaves and fetch. This course is particularly special because I’ve never had a rat do weaves at 2 separate points in an agility course - for some reason I thought it would trip Donut up, but she had no issues and found her entry both times! Very proud of this sweet girl and I’m also proud that she then was able to transfer her fetch trick to the course as well!
Trick tutorial on how to train a rat to weave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bz4EXnFa78
Trick tutorial on training rats to fetch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsALU4xbzo
Trick tutorial on training a rat agility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Q-vAIpNME
Omelets turn to try out spins and weaves in the same agility course - she’s really improved her weaving skills, and as for spin she needs a bit more practice doing it in a course, but overall she did great!
Trick tutorial on how to train a rat to weave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1#ratagility
Trick tutorial on training rats to spin on cue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOefgE79rjM
Trick tutorial on training a rat agility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Q-vAIpNME
Donut weaving in a semi-circle while carrying a ball! One trick comes naturally to her (weaves, aka her favorite trick!), the other is the result of lots of practice (carrying an item, aka the hardest trick for Donut but one she’s learned amazingly well with practice!)
I like combining tricks that the rats both love from the start with tricks they need to work more on, because then they start to enjoy the tricks they need to put more effort into due to associating them with their favorite tricks!
Trick tutorial on how to train a rat to weave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bz4EXnFa78
Trick tutorial on training rats to fetch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsALU4xbzo
Olive’s turn to work fetch while walking backwards on two rolling barrels in a row - and yes she is walking backwards on them, watch her feet closely and you’ll see she has to backup on each barrel in order to move it forwards!
Trick tutorial on training a rat to walk on a barrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVjImgn0-c
Trick tutorial on training rats to fetch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsALU4xbzo
Pickle working on some scent work - here she has to find and fetch me the cinnamon scented ball!
Trick tutorial on training a rat scent work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7rOc7EOWI
Trick tutorial for training fetch (the indicator cue Olive is using here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsALU4xbzo
Doing some agility with Omelet and I wanted to try and include her ring toss trick…Omelet did pretty well considering its been a bit since we practiced this, and also considering she’s never done agility while carrying an item (other than flyball)! She’s such a awesome little rat! ❤️
Trick tutorial on training rats ring toss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwTicilZNuE
Trick tutorial on training rats basketball (prerequisite trick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMf3wUl89nE
Trick tutorial on training rats agility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Q-vAIpNME
