Shaping Day 2

 On 9/19, we still worked on shaping Pixies behavior and trying to get her familiar with pushing the lever. We didn't train over the weekend so at the beginning of the training session there was slow progression. Over the weekend she lost a little weight. She weighed 210.1g so we fed her 8.9g's. For training, we didnt do anything very different. We kept the techniques the same, only reinforcing her when she reared her paw down or around the lever. For this session we trained for a total of 30 minutes. The handswitch was pressed 86 times, and by the end of the session she had pressed the lever 13 times. A total of 93 pellets were delivered.  I would say although there was slow progression at the beginning, Pixie hit a major milestone by pushing the lever on only her "official" third training day. 

Stay tuned for more progress as Pixie moves onto the FR schedules!