We had another good training session that included Lucy’s attitude towards Raina. Lucy showed a lot of avoidance, but afterwards when Raina came sniffing around her crate, Lucy growled at her. The only correction Lucy had before was two days ago with only one e-collar on the highest setting. I felt that this wasn’t effective enough as she didn’t seem overly concerned with it. Luckily, I had gone ahead and put two e-collars on Lucy this morning.
She growled at Raina, I pushed the button and nothing seemed to happen. She continued growling, so I said no. When I did, Lucy turned her head and suddenly got the full impact of both collars. There was a yelp of surprise, but the aggression stopped immediately. Raina had walked away, and Lucy had been effectively corrected.
When Raina walked back toward the crate again, Lucy actually got up and went to the opposite end of the crate and curled up so that she could be as far away from Raina as possible. Now I can begin having more and more positive conversations with Lucy.