[BigV]

I think you did fine Chris.

I have a dog, Andy, and he's **not** a barky dog. I have a barky neighbor, however, and he complains to me, by name, through the windows about bringing in the dog. I'd like to give him a firehose treatment.... anyhow.

It's dog nature to bark, but it's also dog nature to obey the alpha dog, and that's the human, or should be. Every dog is the responsibility of some human, and it's up to the human to take proper actions. In your case Chris, you do share a property line and one part of that means that your side of the line doesn't have dogs barking like crazy. You were entirely within your rights to do what you did, and it appears to have worked.

I've tried Gravdigr's method (with my neighbor and with other neighbors) and it's a good one. But if it doesn't work, you might have to abandon the politeness. At Twil's place, the neighbors have a dog, a super athletic, young energetic rottweiler named Jake. Jake would make his way through the hedge, and run around in Twil's front yard driving her dog BERSERK. Now her dog is inside her house, barking like the house is on fire. Jake is loping and frolicking around the yard, being a crazy happy dog. When I yell at Jake, he flies back home. I've been to the neighbor's house, spoken politely to them, told them what happens. Jake has even leapt over Twil's low chainlink fence into her fenced back yard with our dogs--pandemonium. Just not acceptable. The neighbor was very chastened and promised not to let it happen again. Next thing I see, they're putting up a board fence, excellent. After the fence was up, Jake reappeared. Turns out, Twil's yard's so interesting, Jake would go out the gate and around three sides of the house to get back to her yard.... I spoke to them again and I haven't seen Jake taunting her dog since.

Well, that's some rambling. Point is, barking dogs make me crazy too, even if it's my dog. Letting it just go on and on, that's the owner's responsibility--deal with the owner.