Shaping: Day 2

Because Swanson now knew that turning her head left towards the bar would earn her food and was repeating this behavior, I started rewarding her intermittently for turning her head left so that she would try different behaviors for food. I began to reward Swanson only when she turned far enough left that her nose touched the bar. Again, it took about 15 minutes for her to learn that touching her nose to the bar/sniffing the bar would earn her a food pellet, but learn it she did. She even put a front paw on the bar once or twice on her own, which I rewarded as well. Once I noticed that she was beginning to put her paw on the bar, I ended the session so that we could end on a good note and so we could start the next step in shaping the next day--getting one then both paws on the bar.