I've tried the food route as she's very food orientated, the barking stops for a few minutes after the foods gone down and then will start again. I should add that when she's inside and people are outside unless she can see them then she's quiet. She sort of blows and huffs and puffs if she hears people outside when she's inside the house as she knows she shouldn't be barking. It's definately much much worse in the summer as the local children play out in the street and she will bark when she sees them in the street. It's as if she doesn't know where her teritory ends somehow and she thinks she has to 'guard' for want of a better word the whole part of the street that she can see. To make matters worse we're at the bottom of a cul-de-sac so the kids tend to want to hang out there.

Also my next door neighbour is going to be getting a large dog in the next few weeks (an american bulldog from what he's told me about it) and I really don't want to have her either barking everytime she's outside (as it will be kenneled but given the run of the back garden) as when they've had a dog (they've had several and gotten rid of them after a few weeks!) she's barked at it everytime she's been out or for her to 'have' to use the front garden as her toileting area as there is no patio'd area thats easily cleanable. I don't know how she's going to react to this dog either as she is nervous of other dogs since the attack even though I've been to socialising her with other dogs since I've had her she becomes very subservient and tries to get away from them.

Although last week she did not bark at the postman as he handed over my mail to me when I was in the garden with her and the toddler! Maybe she is getting the idea after all, it's just taking her a long long time.