Training notes

The Girl asked me to take some notes on her mouse training session.

Silvermist is crawling up The Girl's arm and sitting on her shoulder or crawling around her neck. I'm not raising a squeamish kid, y'all. We just had a little accident that involved Silvermist hanging in The Girl's hair. No harm done.

Scamper is up next. The Girl is going to teach you how to train a mouse to sit on your shoulder. First, put your very long blond hair up to keep the mouse out of it. The Girl says:

"Second step, put the mouse on your hand. Third step, let the mouse crawl up your arm. If she doesn't want to, that's OK, tell her to step on your hand. Then get out another mouse if you have one. The next step is to get the mouse crawl above your elbow. Next she gets up there and she might crawl somewhere, you don't know where, and she could crawl anywhere on you next. She could crawl down your shirt! Then let her stay there and climb around on you. Uh-oh! Scamper's on the rampage!

Now I'm going to teach her how to crawl up a paper towel roll. She crawls through it and the top is on my foot. Then I put my hand there and she'll crawl on my hand. First put her halfway up the roll. Step two, she'll crawl up the roll. Step three, then she crawls on your hand and you are done with the move."

It's not sound training advice, but it is getting the mice used to a variety of surfaces and experiences, plus they are getting used to us as well. Check out the photos below!