Training a Chinchilla to jump Part 2

Second session same day thirty minutes after the first video. In this video you can see that Mr. Darcy knows to jump over my arm, so I raised the criteron. Now he has to jump over my arm when it is hovering over the ground, but not too high so he can't go under it. I really want a nice clean jump, but any jump over the arm gets a reward. However, there is a difference in the rewards. Clean jumps get more pellets then jumps where he puts his feet on my arm.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Chinchilla
• jump
• train
• clicker
• training
• trick
• tricks
• smart
• cute

[kinkyshae]

Nvm I'm dumb, didn't read the last post, but is there something besides raisins you can give em, cuz they can't really have multiple raisins like that

[NayNaybeluga]

@kinkyshae I use pellets! They only get a raisin when they make a break through. It's called a jackpot and tells the chinchilla YES THAT'S IT!! GREAT JOB! Which is only used maybe, at most, twice during a training session. Other then that its all pellets. They only get pellets during training. Other then that they free feed on hay.

[Hollerz7]

Hey! Would you mind me asking, do you have to tame your chinchilla before teaching him tricks? If so, how long did it take you to tame him and what methods did you use? (sorry if i seem nosy but im working on taming my chinchilla)

[NayNaybeluga]

@Hollerz7 Just get your chinchilla used to you being around the cage and having your hands inside the cage. Get a really tasty treat like a raison and hold it out for your chinchilla. You can also use pellets if he likes them a lot, my chinchillas do.

[lanaBANANArama19]

@kinkyshae just give it some of its pellet food while training don keep the pelet food wher it can graze free range because then it wont try to do the things you want it to do to get the pellet

[kinkyshae]

Hey hope someone replys to this, but I plan on training my chinchilla, what's a good treat/reward you can give them that's not chinchilla junkfood? Lol

[febegraceeyre69]

Wonderful stuff!

Sarah

[febegraceeyre69]

@AnnToo

Bet you wish your students were this cute!

[jglaser333]

this is wonderful Nay

it gets better and better

your friend

Jamie

[AnnToo]

I hope that everyone looks at this and becomes well informed on chinchilla training. Great work!

Ann