[livingdustmops]

Wow, thank goodness this little one is in a home that cares about him and is giving him the needed love and medical care. I agree with FirstYorkie in trying to focus him with training and see what kind of luck you have with this. Maybe it will work but you have to remember animals that come very a bad situations probably were never socialized properly and you might not ever change him of this fear. These are fear based reactions even if it appears they will attack the other dog.

My 1st dog that I adopted from rescue goes absolutely insane when we would take walks just like your dog and the only thing I could do with him (he was on the clicker training but it totally went out the door in these situations) was to pick him up and I would turn around and then hold him upside down, then he would start to calm down. He has never really changed when it comes to this even though I have 9 other dogs in the house and he is the sweetest of the bunch. I also adopted Noni to a family with a Westie and the two dogs were great together but if you took him on a walk he would also go insane and try to bite whomever he could. The family returned him to me. A very Yorkie knowledgable couple called looking to adopt a rescue and I told them about Noni and she said she was interested because she had had Yorkies for 20 years. I took Noni over to their home (they were in their late 50's, no children, very quite home) and they fell in love with this little dude and she was sure she could change him. Well on one of their first walk's the devil in Noni came out and he went insane and bite her husband hard (blood dripping). Thank God this wonderful couple agreed to keep trying with Noni as they love him the rest of the time and after 4 months finally have had to bring in a behaviorist (she searched hard to find one that does a gentle approach - because many use very cruel methods) and Noni is responding somewhat to the theraphy but they finally had to put him on a low dose of Prozac to try and overcome his high Fear Factor. He seems to be doing better and they are continuing working with the behavorist and doing the skill training she advises.

I do not mean to scare you but to let you know the experience I have had with dogs that have had a bad start in life but I think with hard work and a lot of love you probably can turn your little one around. If you could afford a behavorist and have one on one sessions that would be great but if you can't, so what if you have to cross the street, if you love this dog. Many of my little ones have issues because they all got a rough start in life but I don't care and we work everyday on overcoming different issues.

I will tell you at first I was embarrassed when Tahti would go insane but over time the neighbors got used to him as I always yelled over his noise. This poor dog was horribly abused and is scared to death of these other dogs and I think they felt empathy or thought I was insane.

There is another member from Alberta on YT that I think has a dog that does some of the same things and hopefully she will see your thread but I know she is working with the Clicker Solution and maybe she will give you some of her insight.