Canis lupus hominis

Posted in animal welfare, domestic animals | Tagged domesti mouse, house mouse, operant conditioning, positive reinforcement | 6 Comments

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1. on May 10, 2010 at 12:47 pm retrieverman

   Dwarf hamster:

   
   
2. on May 10, 2010 at 4:14 pm Bridget

   This was the best enterteinment clip for a long time!! Wonderful, funny – and elegant!
   Also brings old memories about – rat -agility is more speedy!

   
   
3. on May 10, 2010 at 4:16 pm Bridget

   And the music put the final accent to the total show.

   
   
4. on May 10, 2010 at 4:48 pm leashedForLife

   i would challenge Cesar Millan to teach a rodent or a chicken to run an agility course, using dominance theory – attitude adjustments by pinning, *pecking* at his chicken-trainee to punish wrong answers, and so on.
   ;-)

   perhaps he could design eentsy-weentsy shock-collars with thin leads running to a hand-held battery unit, LOL – the tunnels would need to be slit overhead, to allow the trainee to enter the tunnel with the leads to the shock-generator following along.
   — terry

   
   
5. on May 11, 2010 at 9:11 pm blkgldn-n-labmix

   leashedForLife,

   I’m sure the tiny electronic collar would be remote rather that wired. That’s rather the point. Thank heaven I don’t need to somehow run above my dogs with an electric leash when I field train. I’d just use a pinch collar, dontchaknow, if that were the case. FYI–agility training and remote collars seem not to go together for dogs, so I don’t know why it would for mice, either.

   As a whole, the videos are rather cute. I’m not into the human-mouse bond, so I can’t say I’m moved, really. But it’s cute and interesting.

   What are the mice thinking?

   What are the people thinking?

   I’m serious. I’d love to know. This is NOT tongue in cheek.

   Perhaps they are just thinking, “This is cute and interesting.” (I’d be okay with that.)

   
   
   • on May 12, 2010 at 12:38 am leashedForLife

     the problem with the wireless-teentsy-weentsy shock-collar is the ** battery ** problem – batteries are bulky – mice are small.

     i think the mice + the ppl both find it fun. :-)

     
     

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