Day 2

Today, I practiced handling the rats.  I scratched the rats' heads that did not yet have surgery to get them used to their heads being touched.  For the ones that had surgery, I practiced removing their dummies and placing them back into their cannulas.  If the rats were still, I put the dummy back in on the first try.  If the rats squirmed, it took much longer.  One rat in particular moved a great deal, and I had to get Julia's help to place the dummy back into the cannula.