Can anyone help!  My neighbour has 3 chihuahua ( hope that spelt right) and a jack Russell which are out most of the time. when out they are yapping all the time and they run along the fence. My young Aussie gets so worked up and I have tried telling her to leave and also using treats if she comes away but 9 times out of 10 putting her indoors. When on the rare occasion you don't hear them she is very quite and calm. It seems so unfair that she cannot enjoy her own garden.  She cannot get direct to the fence and there are bushes and another 3ft fence but it is the yapping. The fence they run up and down is 8ft high

Ifs a quiet word with these people who will allow this to be going on doesn't work, and it probably won't - they'll probably just get defensive - call on your local authorities.   If they are making a ton of noise out there, this can be stopped.    Are the owners in when this is going on - maybe they don't know?

Don't think they care as they have cats and chickens. Definitely couldn't speak to them tried that in the past about other matters. There grand children also run riot. Got up one morning at 5.30am and found the two boys up there tree trying to get into mine. Certainly told them a thing or two. As far as I know haven't done it since. I was doing some training in the garden yesterday and they starting yapping she nearly strangled herself pulling on the lead.

Can you put another barrier along it temporarily, so she can't get right to the fence?  That might help a little bit.  It won't cure the problem, but it might ease it and help with training.  Not quite the same but I was struggling with Abe running at my chickens as they all gather at their fence line hoping for food, and I didn't make any headway until I'd put a second fence a few feet in front of it.  He could still see them but without being able to get right up to them he stopped charging because it just wasn't as rewarding and now, I've opened a bit up again so he can get right to them, but he still doesn't charge.  If he does, I can call him off more easily as he's not so riled up about it.

In the meantime, work as far from that fence line as you can, rewarding any break in reactivity that appears and encouraging her to come away the rest of the time.  It will take a while.  There's a great video showing it being done with clicker training, I'm just trying to find it or a good alternative to link to for you.  I'd also be working on making the garden a place where she does other things - enrichment toys, training, scentwork etc - so she's thinking about that more than the fence.

Alternatively you could try straightforward classical conditioning: when the dogs start yapping, she gets a mountain of amazing food and excitement from you and you come in after about 10 seconds.  So yapping=brilliant and in a fairly short time, she should start hearing them and orienting to you rather than kicking off.

Here we go.  It's not the clearest at the beginning as she's working two dogs, but you can see it starting to work on the poodle as the sessions progresses.

http://www.fencesfordogs.net/the-power-of-premack-fence-fighting.html?fbclid=IwAR2cOf4NRGDQ2t86BJvS-_K4d6LAAQ4Oxz7VMshHj_Xb6vyQz6hl_482uiI

Thanks for that.  We do have two fences and bushes in between. It was Ok when there was only the jack Russell the problem started when the others turned up it would surprise me if they are stolen dogs as that's the type of people they are.

This sounds like a nightmare, poor you. Do you know if any other neighbours are affected by the noise, if you do report them it would be good to have others complaining too? maybe keep a bark diary and time/dated videos with sound in case you want to report them in the future? I never complained about our neighbours because we owned the house and we would have had to declare the dispute when we sold it. :-( Neighbour disputes are the pits.

Next to me is empty at present next to them we don't know them. I will keep a diary never thought of that. At present they are not out which is unusual and all door open so quite and a peep from mine this is what it used to be like before the dogs arrived.

Thank goodness they've gone :-)

Unfortunately there back

> Unfortunately there back

This sounds like us with some people across the road who bought the property from a previous elderly man who lived there, quietly!   These new people were at odds to assure us it wasn't a 'holiday home' - why, when we'd not asked I don't know except that if it's not currently that, I don't know what it is.  They said they intend to live in it in another 10 years.  Hum.  It's not dog noise, although they do have a small Cocker Spaniel but when they are over there because they are using it as a holiday home, they go out and back, with or without the dog, at least 4 times a day which means four doors and the tailgate SLAMMED each time.  This is a normally quiet residential road and a no-through road at that, so every car door being slammed means somebody is arriving, or leaving and is DISRUPTIVE.   So when they do turn up, 'unfortunately they're back' is exactly how we feel.   I wonder if the neighbours where they normally live (not 'a holiday home') feel the same way!!

Oh and if they are not down here, we get 2 sets of parents turning up..........