Re: After seeing the movie 'The Green Mile,' are rats and mice trainable?

Dear Drew,

Mice and rats are very trainable animals. Many people have mice and rats 
as personal pets and can train them to do tricks like you train a dog. I 
have personally seen a rat been trained to "fetch" a small squeaky toy for 
a piece of cheese. I am sure before the movie was filmed there was an 
animal trainer who taught Mr. Jangles to push the spool. Everytime the 
mouse performed a trick properly he probably received a treat or some type 
of reward. 


Have fun with science,
Elsa