I Need Help with Skye

[Glacier]

Perhaps you could try seperating your yard and only putting Skye in with other dogs that you're confident won't be picking her.

Good luck!

This is what we had to do with Pacer. In my main pack there are a dozen dogs. Balancing that group is a constant juggling act. Pacer was at one time part of that pack and they treated him exactly like your dogs are treating Skye. Pacer is timid and submissive to everyone. Everyone picked on him. That pack has a very clear alpha male dog(plus the human alphas). Eventually, despite trying every thing I could think of to change the behavior, the other dogs ended up almost killing Pacer. My vet actually asked if I wanted to bother with surgery or just euthanize him, that's how serious his injuries were.

Pacer now has his own pen and that's where he spends his time with another dog who would never pick on him(Chum usually). When I get home, Pacer goes wherever I go and the other dogs are fine with that.

In the end his vet bills cost me over 2 grand; the fencing to build Pacer his own pen, about 200 bucks; not having to worry about Pacer's life when I leave the yard....priceless!

[areias]

Thanks for the replies. Like Michelle said-we talked on the phone and I'm going to do some work on this. Seperating the yard may not be possible-Mom is a huge obstacle over here-I will discuss this with her. I also think she is part of the problem-she does not make the dogs do anything, is very passive-a lot of the bullying happens when I am not home and she is.

They are never totally unsupervised-Skye, Romeo, and Star are crated when we are not home. If they are out in the back, the slider door to the porch is usually opened and we can see everything going on through a big window. I do realize it only takes a second for something to happen, even with supervision. For now, most of the time, Skye goes outside seperately until the situation is fixed.

To answer some of the questions-all the dogs are fixed.
If they all go out together-here's one scenario...they will go pee or whatever...then start wandering around..then maybe zoie will go up to her and start mouthing and bumping into her like she's wanting to play. They might start wrestling and then another dog will get into it...and then another..and all of a sudden it has escalated from the wrestling into all dogs on one. And then there is times when she will just be coming to the door, and zoie wil jump on her and then the rest follows. There is a cement bench by the back door, and usually if she can get onto that she can avoid any confrontation, for whatever reason. A lot of times they won't let her get this far and keep her down on the ground.
She is submissive and not very confident. She does her submissive roll on her back and keeps getting picked on. We are working on building confidence but it takes time.

So thanks guys for the responses-I will keep you updated.