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HI everyone, great site, new here and new to Yorkie breed.
We just adopted/ Indy, a 5# Yorkie/mix from a local rescue shelter, they said he was surrendered by owner that could no longer care for him, house trained, walks well on leash, very sweet personality, loves to lay in your lap.
We have adopted from this shelter once before, 2 years ago, with great success, (13# rat terrier/Italian grey), his name is Bentley and he's an awesome guy.

Well as it turns out, little Indy has a lot of issues:
He is not housetrained, he doesn't even squat to poop, he just goes while he's walking, in circles. (inside or outside or walking on leash)

He walks in circles, constantly, if he's not on a leash. (he'll take a few steps then do two circles, then take a few steps, circle twice, etc. etc.
(we didn't notice this at shelter as he was leashed).
he also does a lot of spinning, (from reading here I get that's a Yorkie thing).
He seems to spin when he's happy, or stressed.
When he's on the deck or down near the fence, he paces back and forth like you see abused animals that are caged up all the time, with spinning too.

When he's not circling or spinning, or pacing, he's licking the fridge or the walls or the furniture. If you don't stop him from licking it gets kind of faster and obsessive and he seems to get himself into a frenzy.
(it seems to happen at the same time each day).
He won't let us pick him up, but we can pat him and love on him if we don't pick him up.
He doesn't seem to know how to play with toys and if you squeak one he spins faster and faster.

He only makes little grunting noises, have not yet heard him bark. When Bentley barks it seems to scare Indy and he jumps. (of coarse I do also)
He also does not respond to his name.

My husband and I are very experience dog people but have always had larger dogs, until Bentley.
For the past 12 years we shared our home with 4 rescued large greyhounds (they have all passed now) and we fostered so many greyhounds that we lost count at 12. Most of them were very abused, fresh off the race track, we usually took the troubled ones to foster as I am home all day and had the time to work with their issues.

I forgot to mention that we bathed Indy the day we brought him home and found a matted mass of poop or something all down his back left leg.
We got him into the vet the next day and had him all checked over and the back leg shaved. Underneath it was all infected, vet gave him antibiotic shot, seems to be healing up well.
His teeth are really bad too, one of the bottom front big ones is missing and the other one is wobbly and needs taken out. Not sure if he'll have any teeth left after the vet gets finished with dental. Vet had a hard time keeping him still enough to properly check him. Poor wee guy.
Vet also noticed his hips or back legs keep popping in and out of joint. Vet and assistant could both feel this just from holding him.
Vet thinks that Indy either came from a hoarder type situation or just a very neglectful person that really couldn't deal with having a dog. He didn't think it was neurological. Won't say what else he said, after he smacked me upside the head.
Need some advise here!
At 5 years old can he be retrained? House training is #1 on my list. I've had a few greys with no teeth so that we can deal with. The hips or legs popping in and out freaks me right out.
My husband and I don't' have the heart to take him back to where we got him as he was there 13 days and they didn't seem to notice the back leg mass or not being able to pick him up on your lap.
I'm also sure they probably weren't told the truth about where he came from.

Is it possible to help this little guy? Bentley really wants a friend to run and play with. He keeps gently trying to play with Indy, but Indy doesn't seem to get it, although he's not afraid of Bentley, it's like he doesn't no how.

Ready for that advise now.