Perhaps you should start to document, video and journal, the goings on. Most states consider a log or journal as evidence so long as it's got regular entries.
Your lawyer neighbor may be jerking your chain, but, documenting their behavior and your dog's would be a benefit to you if it goes to court. It might even show the neighbor being a litigious ass.
Use the www to read the local laws and find out what's permitted.
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If your dogs are free in your back yard when you & your wife are not home, you may want to install a kennel. If the dogs are fence fighting this may stop that.
You said in your original post that the dogs are outside occasionally during the day. In your last post, you lead me to beleave that the dogs are also outside at night. Dogs barking during daylight hours are easier to tolerate than dogs barking at night. If your wife is a sound sleeper and the dogs barking is not enough to alert her, than the barking isn't doing much good. If your thinking about the barking to deter intruders, is your entire house enclosed by the fence? Or just part of it? If the dogs are enclosed in the back yard, is there anything from stopping an intruder from entering the front of your house? A barking dog IN the house is much more of a deterent. If I'm missing something, let me know.
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You mentioned your dog barks when the neighbors dog is "out or goes close to the fence". You know, that dog has as much right to his back yard as you do. If your dog sets up a ruckus everytime the neighbors are in their yard, I don't blame them for being frustrated! You need to take a hard & unbiased look at the whole situation.
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I think it will be a whole lot cheaper for you to buy the no-bark collars that Ed suggested and work on the other issues that are upsetting your neighbor.
It sounds like to me that you are in a no win situation, between attorney fees and court cost you could still be forced to rehome the dogs. All depends on how mad your neighbor is and how far he is willing to take this. I agree that you need to go and have a conversation with your neighbor and let him know that you want to resolve any problems and tell him some steps that you plan on taking to address his concerns.
I understand your concern for your wife and needing the dogs for security, the no-bark collars will not interfear with the dogs being a great deterent to anyone who may think about entering your home. If I had the same type of experiences that your wife has had, I'd feel a whole lot safer having my dogs spend more time with me when I am either inside or out.
My neighbour has one of those dogs that bark every time I enter my yard too--it can get pretty frustrating. What's wrong with keeping the dogs inside? Maybe make sure there's a window near entrances where any would-be intruders can see the dog run to if they attempt to get close to your home. I rely on my dog for protection, but I don't let him bark his head off just anywhere anytime. I'd rather he bite first.
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Why not have the no bark collars on during the day and not at night IF they're inside? Barking inside your house shouldn't bother anyone except you!
The dogs will, IMO, understand that they can bark when the collar's not on (that's why they make dummy collars) so it shouldn't be a problem.
I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but EXCERCISE YOUR DOGS. Dogs that are bored bark. A tired dog is a quiet dog. Yada yada yada. Bark collar for short term, exercise and stimulation for long term.
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