Dog Health Questions: Dog training help?

My yorkie is 3 years old. I have 3 other dogs so shes around animals, she walks around with her head very low to the ground, hides when people come over, and doesnt like outside dogs. I dont know what to do, help?!

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Sounds like she need confidence and counter conditioning. Two things. Start to train her, take an inexpensive class at one of the pet stores with a small class (too many dogs will over whelm her).
Next,Take her to the store (so she gets use to it), and other places. Be sure she is on a leash, don't carry her. When she seems afraid, don't touch her, or pick her up - this reinforces the fearful behavior. Just use a confident voice, -nothing to it sweetie- then give her a treat so fantastic she goes crazy for it. Never give this treat to her unless she is outside near other dogs or people.
If she won't eat - from being too afraid, move back away from people until she will eat. You need to pair a yummy specail treat with some of the fears she has.
If she is very afraid, start out far away from the feared object. For example, I might find a coffee shop with people sitting outside. Find a distance your dog will eat the treat and not be too afraid. Every day I would try to move a little closer to the shop, feeding her all the time (maybe 1/2 an hour with treats every few minutes). If she gets too fearful, slow down and go back a few feet. Maybe over a few weeks, you can get very close to the people at the coffee shop and eventually have them feed her a treat.
When puppies are under 6 months old they need to meet 100 new dogs a month and 100 new people a month to avoid this potential fearful behavior. Now at 3 years old, some work needs to be done, so she can get use to people and dogs and the world will not be so scarey.
If you had enough money, you could hire a Canine Behaviorist to help you with this process.

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• I would start with a good obedience class. It is not that she is a bad dog, but she needs to have more confidence. Training helps with that. And it is also about socialization. She can get that in a safe environment.
  
  Be patient. But definitely get some help on it. She will be much happier because of the training.


• I'm not sure I can help you here........... you say you have 3 other dogs, sounds like the yorkie has determined her "pecking order" as bottom of the list.........have you tried keeping her on your shoulder as a vantage point? Let her see the other 3 are not necessarily the top dogs. In my opinion, the problem needs to be addressed at home before you even think about visitors, outside dogs, or other "intruders". I'm sure you give her extra attention, but that
  may not be enough to give her confidence....this little girl needs some comp time to make her feel her oats...yorkies usually don't have a problem with that, I'm surprised..............