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PasoBaby_CarolU
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| Clarissa wrote: | | PasoBaby_CarolU wrote: | | I used to have pet Kangaroo Rats. They were wild but become tame very quickly. But they are nocturnal and drive you nuts all night. |
Aussie native Kangaroo Rats    |
No, these are native Great Basin Kangaroo Rats...and darn, they're cute!
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cheerios
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| bit wrote: | | Thanks Mary, yep he's got a sweet little situation, great humans, and lots of cow work in his future. There's always a lot going on there, so he's never real bored. Plus he's in a herd of about 15 horses, so lots of play time. Are ya done with school now? Amanda is BURIED this semester with 17 units, working in the lab, and an internship. I'm not going to see her much. Glad life is settling down and you are getting some time. I'm pretty happy I finally have plenty of the stuff these days. Come visit some time! |
That all sounds great for Hawk. 
Sounds like Amanda is busy!!!
Getting closer to being done.
Have the rest of this year and then next year. But I'll have most of my classes done by the end of this year, so next year will be just one or two classes and then working on my master's thesis and some other research and projects.
Have been doing some neat work through school lately with our local dog/cat shelter. One of the guys I go to school with does dog training professionally and he's started some neat stuff at the shelter. I've been learning a lot from him!
We're working with the dogs at the shelter, but also offering a free six week group class to anyone who adopts from the shelter. Trying to educate owners and reduce the number of dogs who get returned. Lots of clicker training. The owners end up thinking their dogs are so smart.
And, I would love to come visit sometime!
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cheerios
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| PasoBaby_CarolU wrote: | | So Mary...what are you training your mice and rats to do? I'm curious. I wouldn't think you could train mice to do much, but I understand rats are very smart. I used to have pet Kangaroo Rats. They were wild but become tame very quickly. But they are nocturnal and drive you nuts all night. |
Haven't done a whiole lot with the mice yet. Have only had then about a month and they were terrified of me when I first got them. So we've been working on being friendly. They got neutered last week, so I've given them the week off, but hopefully will start some clicker training with them soon.
Search for mouse agility on YouTube. There are two women in particular who have some super well trained mice. Agility courses, basket ball, fetch, skateboarding, and so on. Really impressive stuff.
One rat I've done a lot more training with than the other.
I'm currently working on fetch with her. So frustrating! But we are starting to make some progress. At first she just wanted to run and hide the objects, which is a very natural rat behavior.
Mostly I've just been training her silly little tricks, stand up on her hind legs, go and stand on an object, turn in a circle, etc.
Here are two tricks from last fall that I made videos of:
Going through a tunnel (shows the training process too):
http://stalecheerios.com/blog/rats/rat-learns-trick-training/
Going over a small jump:
http://stalecheerios.com/blog/training-videos/georgie-learns-jump/
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PasoBaby_CarolU
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Those are awesome Mary. I really like the tunnel one, it shows the process very well. I can believe Georgie would take the treat and hide it...we had a Wood rat (Pack rat) that got in our house years ago...it would steal dog food and put back pebbles. Had the hardest time figuring out how the rocks got in the dog's dish. LOL
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thelmanelle
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Welcome back! 
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Hertha
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Wonderful to have you back here Mary. I look forward to Mouse Agility in my very very old age 
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cheerios
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| PasoBaby_CarolU wrote: | | it would steal dog food and put back pebbles. Had the hardest time figuring out how the rocks got in the dog's dish. LOL |
LOL. That's too funny!
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