#olive the rat
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
Olive practicing her double barrel roll - I use targets with yogurt smeared on them to encourage her to walk without any luring or targeting!
Trick tutorial on training a rat to walk on a barrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVjImgn0-c
Olive practicing the bowling trick - she’s pretty forceful with her pushes, so she often gets strikes!
Trick tutorial on training a rat to bowl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uINkalAPa9I
Olive working on a new agility course that combines regular agility obstacles with walking on a barrel and spinning on cue!
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 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
Olive learning another fun agility course, this time including her walk on a barrel and spin tricks! Olive is a HUGE fan of spinning in particular so she was very excited to race towards the spin at the end of this course!
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 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
Olive working a new obstacle combo - we need to revisit walking on the barrel away from me, but she did pretty good for her first attempt at doing that with an item!
Trick tutorial on training a rat to walk on a barrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVjImgn0-c
Trick tutorial on training a rat basketball (which is part of the BBQ trick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMf3wUl89nE
Trick tutorial on training a rat agility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Q-vAIpNME
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
Olive (black self) and Egg (pink eyed white) practicing their vs basketball trick! Its been a bit since they worked this, but both girls did great!
Trick tutorial on training rats to play basketball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMf3wUl89nE
Trick tutorial on training rats vs basketball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHBaOt2K1hg
