#donut the rat
This might look familiar to you, because its an agility course I already posted Donut doing - in the posted version she was fetching a ball through it, but I also wanted to post this one to show you how excited she gets to do the weaving courses alone!
Trick tutorial on how to train a rat to weave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bz4EXnFa78
Trick tutorial on training a rat agility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Q-vAIpNME
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
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
Sweet Donut doing some fun scent work with the mini chests - she has to sniff out and tip chest 4!
Trick tutorial on training a rat scent work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7rOc7EOWI
