Challenges & Solutions

 A challenge that I faced during my experience with training was Catnips tendency to get bored and frustrated. Although I do think that her motivation was strong some days, I think that the gaps between days when I trained her could have created an issue. Although she was responding, I feel like she could have done slightly better if I had stayed consistent with my days. I noticed this and for the last few sessions I tried to train back to back. This did seem to help her as it tended to be a bigger increase in responses than previously. Someways my training could have been improved is by staying consistent with days and working on balancing how much food she needs. Since I have never had to food deprive an animal, I struggled with calculating how much/how little to give her because it made me feel guilty in a way. However, I still feel like I did good job at this by keeping her around her goal weight. I think if this would have been managed better then she might have been even more motivated to press her lever.