[yorkietalkjilly]

Yorkies are not outside dogs and don't have the heat-regulating abilities to stay in the outdoors as other dogs so please don't leave him out there for very long.

This dog is suffering - psychologically and/or possibly physically. I would get him to the vet, get him checked out and get some medication for sedation to get him through the next few days as he adjusts. He's had a huge change in his life and you don't know what he's been through. He's got to learn to trust again and scaring him with rolled up newspapers and "no" won't get it right now. He needs infinite patience and bringing him along through a program to slowly rehab him.

The shock of an electric dog collar that hits him from out of the blue could shock his sensibilities so that he is fearful for life. Spraying a dog like this with a squirt bottle of water could also terrify him. Avoid that aspect of correction like the plague if you care for him. There are easier and better ways that reward a dog for controlling himself and learning what you want of him and doing it - but only after he learns to trust you. It may take weeks or months but it will be well worth it if you work hard with him. In time, he'll learn you will NEVER scare or intimidate him but are there to help him - and he'll respond greatly.

A life enrichment program of engaging this dog - individually working with him with a bag of fresh, warm, boiled chicken and start to teach him basic obedience and how to control his impulses for a treat and praise. I'd put him through short 3 -5 min. sessions 2 or 3 times a day.

Teach him "Watch me" where he has to focus on your eyes for a while, quiet and just looking until you say "Release" to get his treat - this will start to show him he can control his impulses. Teach him lie down, sit, up, shake paw, sit up and beg, rollover and things like that - things that will keep you working to gently and patiently keep him busy paying alert attention to you and working to learn how to do each command for your praise and pride in him and his wonderful treat reward.

Get him out and walking fast up and down the block a few times daily so he can get his mind focused on nothing but going forward and off his anxieties and worries. A bag of treats used just ahead of him can keep him focused on going forward when he might want to lag. Hold your fist with the chicken piece in it just ahead of him and keep him going forward to sniff at and get it. If he gets excited by approaching dogs or people, cross over the street to the opposite site and walk him in a fast, tight circle with the chicken out in front of him as the other dog or person passes.

Kong toys filled with treats or food and puzzle games that you show him how to "work" should engage his mind and keep him busy figuring out how to get his goodies. Hide treats around the den and allow him to search them out - gently guiding him around and pointing them out until he gets the idea. Clap and celebrate each time he finds one and eats it. Take small styrofoam cups and place a treat under one of them. Show him that if he knocks the right one over, he'll get a treat. Keep replacing the treat under one of them and clapping and praising when he knocks over the right cup, gets the treat.

A good obedience program will keep your dog busy learning and working, bonding with you, learning that pleasing you gets him praise and ample food rewards if he works at doing what you show him to do and he will learn in time to work hard to please you for all that positive feedback and he'll feed pride in himself as you show your pride in him. The life enrichment of lots of exercise and puzzles and games will also keep his mind busy learning rather than focusing on his worries, fears, anxieties and problems. In time, he should work through them and learn how to be a great, happy pet.