The rat can do no wrong; any action taken by the rat, especially the unsocialized rat, was most likely influenced by the rat trainer.

Many people watch, but few see.

The rat uses a predictable, discernible and effective language. A nonverbal language. The rats are talking.... [Just listen, in the form of watching.]

A good rat servant can hear a rat speak to her. A great rat trainer can hear a rat whisper to her.

The most important piece of equipment in rat training is the hands that hold the rat. The rat's language can be the teacher.

"No blade of grass has ever run from a horse. Do not use food as a reward." No sweet potato has ever run from a rat. Do not use food as a reward.

How is the rat a flight animal? (The horse is a quintessential flight animal.) When pressure is applied to the relationship, does the rat, like the horse, almost always choose to flee rather than fight? [How does the herd concept affect the flight mechanism?]

"If your horse wants to go away, don't send it away a little, send it away a lot." If your rat wants to go away, do you send her away? Send her away a little, or send her away a lot?

There is no such thing as teaching, only learning.

It is not the great trainer who can cause her rat to perform. The great trainer can cause the rat to want to perform.

If she is about to learn, stay out of her way. If all learning is zero through ten, where Join-Up and Follow-Up are zero through one, then the most important part of learning is zero through one.

No one has the right to say you must!

Make it easy for her to do right and difficult for her to do wrong.

Always work to cause your rat to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for her to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want her to go in.

Everyone has the right to fail.

It is a teacher's duty to create an environment in which the student can learn.

Everyone must be responsible for their own actions and the consequences thereof.

Violence is for the violator, never the victim.

Keep it simple. Simple is best.