It depends on the kind of conditioning you want. I didn't have time to take care of all the raccoons that I captured so I made a turnstile in a continuous cage and in order to get food they had to get through a lot of turnstiles to get to the end cage. The turnstiles swept the floor of their cage and all the crumbs went down where the red ants ate them. I didn't have time to take care of all the animals so I conditioned some of the dogs to help feed the raccoons. They would help me and I would take on more animals by using clever techniques or devices to assist me. If you teach an animal to press a lever to get water, press another lever to get food and press another one to exit the cage, they will learn how to do that and the way you condition them all depends on what you want of the animal. To catch snakes, I would lift off heavy objects on the ground like heavy stones and there is usually a snake under a rock, stone or flat surface. And then I would use a fork stick that looks like a letter 'Y' and I would put it over its head so that I wouldn't be bitten if it were a poisonous snake. And I would wrap it behind the fork stick so I would control the direction of the head. Then I would drop it into a container or a box with a small opening. I caught snakes mostly with a fork stick.

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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized

QA#: 2012052001
Transcribed by Tülay Güneş