[Rhetts_mama]

Oh boy, do I feel your pain at having crazy neighbors. Before we moved, I had one that HATED my dogs. Her house was set back on her lot so that her driveway bumped up next to my back yard. She'd let her dog run up and down the fence line of my yard (rather than hers) when my dogs (a golden and a mini doxie) were out, and then complain when my dogs barked at hers. She' back up her car right up to the fence (over her planting area and well in to my property line and then rev her engine. She called animal control and told them I let my dogs bark for hours on end in the back yard (patently false, as my dogs were indoor babies and were only out for 10-15 minutes at a time.)

She made a video tape of my dogs barking and snarling at her. She sent that to animal control. After another visit from them, I decided to fight back. I set up my video camera in the kitchen window and let my dogs into my back yard. She immediately came outside with her camera and started yelling at my dogs (who were quiet and on the other side of the yard doing their business). When they came over to the fence (still quiet) she started throwing dirt clods at them until the started barking (she then proceeded to film them barking). I went outside and called the dogs in. I then got in my car, drove down to animal control and showed them the video tape of what had transpired and told them that I wanted to file charges against her. They went out and talked to her and it never happened again. I didn't speak to the "b" ever again, either.

All I can suggest is that you set up your camera when you let the dogs out, just to see if there is something going on. You might also want to put a combination lock on your gate just in case he is letting them out. You are on your own regarding the "view" issues though. LOL. Good luck.