We moved from a quiet country setting where anything out of the ordinary needed barking at to a neighborhood, and our dogs were totally freaked out and barked at everything. One of our new neighbors actually came over and (without even introducing himself, grrr!) told us that the dogs would be a 'problem'. He later came back and said that he realized that he should have waited a few days to let them settle in before he said anything.
My solution was to bring the dogs in every night (we had let them in most nights at the old house, anyway) to sleep. That way we only had to deal with the barking when loud strange noises, etc were happening, and they were not waking the neighbors. They have since settled in and only bark occasionally (at night anyway). During the day, I don't worry about it; they go out in their 'play'pen during the day and that is free time that they can bark and romp and play to their heart's content. There are so many other neighborhood dogs that carry on that I don't worry too much about the neighbors being disturbed unless it's past 9:30 or so at night (if we go out somewhere for dinner, etc. and are late bringing the girls in). So far no other complaints from neighbors.
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