Final Post
When looking back over my training with Bennie, I feel fondly for both her and her performance. I genuinely enjoyed shaping her and watching visible progress being made nearly every day. It was immensely rewarding to watch Bennie execute a task that I specifically trained her to do. Overall, shaping was likely my favorite part of training because it was thoroughly interactive. The next best part of training was when Bennie truly understood that she was supposed to press the lever and would ne rewarded for it. This understanding took place on training day eight on FR7. One thing I did not like about the experience was watching Bennie lose weight. I understand why the diet was necessary, but during one point in my training Bennie kept losing weight while being fed increasing amounts of food. Fortunately, I was able to put Bennie on free feed after three days of losing weight. The experience of watching her weight go down was alarmi...