[misslissa]

well i cant help with the potty training or the puppymill business
but when i got my chichi she was never really handled by a person and was terrified if you can near her she could not walk on a leach and so on and so on

it has taken almost a year but now she will curl up with me and watch TV she will follow me around and sleep in my bed still if we are around people she dose not know she will bark and growl she is terrified of strangers
what i did was made me the safe place if she come up to me she would get a treat a head scratch and i would keep the other animals away from her if she got up in my lap i would toss a blanket over her head making her feel secure give her a treat and a head scratch and keep her safe after about 3 months i took the treats away and she would still come up just to know she was safe for a while we never ever yelled at anyone if she could hear not even the other dogs or the kids it just made her not trust us not she loves me and will come to me when she is scared instead of hiding in the cat tree
this is what worked for Chichi but your dog may need a different approach i just wanted to show you how involved i had to get and a year later i still cant take her outside that's our new years resolution to get Chichi t jump in the car and walk in to the pet store without fear before Christmas time she can have a pic with santa