Poor Scouter-Roo. It's not your fault. Barking is what some dogs like to do. It's just our way of announcing our presence. Some people just don't understand that. I hope your Mom and the neighbors can patch things up. Good Luck.

Scouter, I would have done the same thing. Mom gets crazy when I bark at anyone and anything. You're right, its a terrier thing. I think the dachshund in me doesn't help much either. Your neigbors don't sound too agreeable. Hope it all works out for you. Maybe they'll move!!!!!!!! Shame on me!!

I'm just glad that Mom found out about those marshmellows - who knows, Scouter could have gotten one caught in her throat or something. You don't "feed" other people's dogs... no matter the method or circumstance.

Hoover and I announce our presence EVERY time we go outside and everyone knows when I want in, too. We're DOGS....that's what we do! Marshmellos are yummy, but they should have ASKED before feeding you! Sounds like a bunch of winners!

What idiots. I'm sure they aren't the best of people even when not fueled by alcohol and pack mentality. Stupid people really do act like pack animals when together egging each other on. Too bad if they weren't happy about your fence. You probably aren't happy about their kids and dogs either. These things almost never get better unless you come to some understanding about boundaries, like "I'll try to pay better attention to my dogs when they are out and you are having company, if you please don't throw marshmallows or anything else over the fence at them." Maybe if you gave them your phone number and asked that they call you if your dogs are bothering them before they take matters into their own hands? Fence fighting is almost irresistable for dogs--it's the ultimate territory defense. Good luck--they may just be stuck on stupid forever. Maybe they'll move.

They threw marshmallows at you?!! Not nice. You were in your yard, and if your mama wanted to "counter complain", she coulda said they were making too much noise. Mean people stink.

Sorry to hear about your mean neighbors. One time some of our neighbors put a copy of the Noblesville noise ordinance in our door. I guess they don't like me baying at 6:30 in the morning. oh well, I'm a beagle and that's what I do.

Well, DUH!! If they're going to reward you with marshmallows for barking, then you keep barking!! I sure would've! Bark, Bark, Bark = Marshmallow, Marshmallow, Marshmallow! Geniuses. My mom puts up with stuff from our neighbors and never says anything, but if they ever say something to her - IT'S ON!! Our neighbors are nice to us dogs. Mom says they had better be! Mom is really nice, but something like that would've gotten her going.

You were just guarding your territory. I bark at folks on the other side of our fence, too, but they haven't been too mean about it yet. Throwing things at you was way out of line.

Rebel's post reminded mom of when they moved into the house where we live now. They had 3 dogs, none of which had a serious barking problem, but they did bark. What a concept--dogs=bark.
About a week after they moved in they found a carefully hand printed postcard addressed to "New Neighbors." On the back it said "Dead dogs don't bark." She had a feeling it was from the very quiet middle-aged man who lived next door. You know, the kind about whom the neighbors always say "He was such a quiet man" after he commits some gruesome murders and buries the victims in his backyard. He was that kind of creepy. My dad just about had a big old confrontation with the guy, but couldn't prove it was from him, so he just muttered a lot about "dead neighbors don't write postcards" and practiced looking menacing. Since they didn't have a fence, the dogs were never outside running around so the threat would have been difficult to carry out, but still... The guy moved about a year later, and they never heard anything more after that initial postcard. The scary part was that he was inferring that he would rather take matters into his own hands than call ACC to complain about excessive barking, which there wasn't in the first place. Scout's neighbors just sound like the stupid drunk people kind.