Shaping Day One

 Shaping Day One

September 15th, 2022

The beginning of the shaping process was interesting, Pixie started pressing the lever. Pixie is used to pushing the lever and collecting some tasty treats. September 15th was the first day of shaping for her. My partner and I, started out by pushing the hand-switch, but it didn't take long for her to catch on.

With rewards each time he made her way by the lever, he caught on fairly quick, but was slow at understanding. With a reinforcement 70 times (70 pellets delivered), the same method was used in this trainings session as it was in the next few days of shaping. 

Weighing in at 214.7 grams, she was over her weight by a little over 7 grams. 

She was not trained for the whole 30 minutes, but if she had gone the whole 30 minutes she would have had a response average of 100.