So we just figured out how to get her to respond to the Bitter Spray. When we were first using it, she was biting right through it like it didn't bother her at all, so we had really stopped using it at all. Tonight, however, she started biting the gloves, hard (which she would normally be doing to our hands if we weren't wearing the gloves), so we doused the gloves in the bitter spray, and just let her bite it like crazy until she realized how horrible it was. Then she stopped. So, it turns out that maybe her tastebuds just aren't as sensitive as other ferrets I've used this on, and she just needs more of it to respond. This might be a big breakthrough in using the bitter spray as a negative reinforcer, we'll see.
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