At least in our case, the barking problem is not my fault or our dogs fault.
My wife's rescue dog thinks she's protecting us by barking warnings. Generally this is a good things, especially with the growing number of break-ins locally.
The problem is the neighbors encourage lots of feral cats. They roam across the walls of our property, our deck and on roof of our house, leaving their scents and excrement all over to further annoy our dog.
At night we often hear what sounds like a stampede across the ceiling of our living room. Our poor dog goes crazy warning us that there are intruders on our roof. I can't fault that.
The main culprit is a restaurant that often has 15 or 20 cats sitting in their yard waiting for food. We've spoken to them about the various reasons why this is unhealthy, unneighborly, and bad for business but we've gotten no results.
We've tried various cat deterrents but nothing seems to work, short of the ultimate deterrent which my wife has prohibited me from considering.