I'm at my wits end.
We (my partner, cats + dogs) live in a rented cottage on a farm. Our only neighbours rent another cottage plus the field right next to our garden. Our dogs (I've posted about them before) are both rescues and both bark at people they don't know. The minute they bark we get them in so that they associate barking at people with no more playing outside. We're also beginning to work with a behaviourist from August - I wish it was sooner but we live in a very rural area and she's the only one who can travel to us.
Anyway our neighbours have been really not understanding of this at all and whilst the dogs are completely our responsibility etc it is exhausting. She can see we're trying, we're out the second they bark if they do, we always always always get them in, yet she shouts at us every single time. She's also made a point of going out after 7pm, which she knows is exactly when our dogs go out after dinner, and just... standing in the field, at our fence, doing nothing apart from staring. Sometimes she doesn't even have her dogs with her - when she has them with her I'm more understanding, although they do have a huge garden of their own not within eyeshot of ours, plus another field also not within eyeshot of our garden.
It came to a head this evening when she filmed my partner when she went out to get the dogs in, because they were barking. She also said that she'd let her dogs eat our cats
. As well as this, she said that we are awful owners because we don't walk our dogs, which frustrates me no end because we do walk one of them, but we can't walk the other because she's absolutely terrified of going outside the garden (there's a previous thread about this). She knows this and yet she came at us with that which is really upsetting.
I don't know what to do. The dogs are 100% our responsibility, and it is up to us to get them not barking, I know this. But I don't know how to fix this, especially when we're doing everything we can. Is there anything we can do to make amends?