@emperorsofmischief: We are so proud of Kronk’s progress these past few weeks! 🤗 What a clever boy. ❤️ In this vid we present a few minutes of his most recent driving lesson, unedited except for the moments featuring the fast forward button (in which we speed through Kronk taking a spontaneous little break to chill and scratch an itch — good on ya, Kronk, breaks are important! 😉). While watching, did you peep the new training system? The rats now retrieve their treat from a string that is moved across our living room via suspension from a cable across the ceiling!🚡 By using this set-up, we are further moving away from the rats associating *us* with the reward, and instead learning to solely associate their reward with reaching the target 🎯 (the cinnamon-scented and belled pilon!). This skill will be crucial if they are to learn how to navigate through obstacles in a tiny course to reach one or more partially obscured targets. Let’s see what they can learn! 🧠 (New to our account? Welcome! 🙂 We give our two bonded rescue rats, Kuzko and Kronk, 10-minute driving lessons once a day as a mental enrichment activity. They choose when to enter and exit the vehicle and take breaks as needed. Kuzko and Kronk also enjoy a variety of other enrichment during their free roam time with us — follow or check out our previous posts for more!) #rescuerats #adoptdontshop #rats #ratstagram #ratsofinstagram #drivingrats

Kronk & Kuzko

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Sunday 26 May 2024 22:53:58 GMT