Lovely writing, but a neighbor-to-neighbor talk would have been a nice first step.
Somewhere in the process, I might personally have debated the merits of using a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock.
I had a neighbor in Texas who was a nice buy, but he had two rat terriers in the back yard. From the moment I stepped out the back door in my yard (separated by a fence) to the moment I went back in the house, they barked at me. For about 10 years. I spoke to him about it, and his response was "they're just protecting their territory."
More than once, I debated resuming my archery hobby, but it wasn't really the dogs' fault. I also considered buying bark collars for both of them, but I was reluctant to spend a couple hundred dollars and also was fairly sure he wouldn't have used them if offered.