Success

Day 18 - 5:13 AM
Success!!!!

I have gained the squirrels’ trust. I can now make the chish-tish sound (as noted in my first book) to notify them when food will be provided. The squirrels are allowing me to fully train them. This new training will be “consequence training”; it consists of the squirrels pulling small balls attached to stings. If they pull the balls in the correct order they will get and enormous amount of food. If they don’t, then the platform that they are standing on will project them 22-27 feet in the air (tested with a 5 pound sand bag). The device that is used to launch them is attached to a floating arm. The reason for the floating arm is that when the platform is trigger based on the incorrect solution of ball pulling is so the platform will spin the squirrel to disorientate it when in flight.

This will teach the squirrel not to do that. When they fall and hit the ground a small bell will ring. The bell sound will be used in later experiments.

Video and Images to come.