Moving into a house with your dog where another dog lives next door

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I viewed a house which would be ok for me and dog.
But as I was leaving I spoke to the neighbour who said that he also has a dog and that she would bark at us until she got used to us.
He added that she only barks when he goes out so I think she has access to the garden and would bark when we are also in the garden.

I think I'd be best looking elsewhere but I've been looking forever and had no luck.

Has anybody had any experience of this? Is the neighbour's dog likely to stop barking after a period of time?
Mine is quiet, used to other dogs, but can be dominant. Has lived next door to one before without issue but that dog was a pup and only there occasionally and the garden was bigger.
Neighbour's dog is a collie.
Garden provides a barrier with plants and a 6ft fence but it's not big.
WWYD?

I have a dog, as does next door. Next door's barks almost constantly when mine is in the garden - he just ignores it. Doesn't phase him in the slightest, despite him being quite reactive out in the street with another dog.

So I don't restrict his garden access (he's not the kind of dog that spends hours out there anyway, just a short potter and a pee) and I don't worry if someone else's dog barks - it's up to them to sort it.

I have a working border collie. She barks if a stranger walks down the drive, or at the noise of the bins being taken out, but she couldn't care less about the neighbours dogs even when they spend all day outside yapping in their garden.

Its rather antisocial to have any dog in a dense neighbourhood but hey ho.

I very sadly lost my dog at the end of last year but he was an angel in the garden, never ever barked, not once.
When he was about 8 we got new neighbours with a very, very reactive dog. They said he would settle down once he got used to the new location but if anything it got worse. He would bark, growl and hurl himself at the fence. I was terrified he would get into our garden and hurt my dog but there was nothing I could do.
Even if you pick where you live, you can't control who moves in next to you sadly...

Sorry to hear about your experience @JoantheVampireSlayer and so sorry you lost your dog.
You make a good point, no telling who or what will move in in the future. I'm beginning to think I should start looking for a place on the moon.😀

This!

If the dog is left alone to bark in the garden, it sounds like this neighbour is a problem whether or not you have a dog.

Definitely check with few other neighbours if it's a nuisance as sounds worrying that he knows the dog barks when he goes out and not suggesting has done anything about it as they'd likely said 'sorry my dog barks briefly when left or someone gets in as we have a camera to check on them' and whatever else maybe doing to mitigate to try reassure they're a considerate neighbour.
There's more for dogs to bark at when outdoors to entertain themselves when bored. One shared fence neighbour that would leave there dog outside for most of the day even if they were home. He'd bark anytime sensed movement in my garden as near his territory, which made it less enjoyable for me to spend time outside & also caused my dogs to get het up responding to the fence barker threat. I ended up having mesh fencing that section off so there was a buffer zone to reduce them practicing the behaviour otherwise they rarely barked & had zero watchdog traits to care about neighbours only squirrels.

In ideal world I'd try slow intro with neighboring dogs on neutral territory walks so they can accept each other as ok so less likely for fenceline aggro.

Thanks @ScattyHattie all good advice but it's sold to someone else now.
Probably for the best but I'm still bloody looking!