to update my last post - my (
very cute) neighbors let me use their hose on my girls 'carpeted area' in exchange for watering their plants on their back patio.... and one of them just told me this morning "GREAT job with the girls barking.....whatever I'm doing
is working"

LOL...I DID NOTHING ! So I guess they WERE a bit loud when we 1st moved in - OOOPS ~