Sam Barking At Children Across The Road

[Sam the man]

Now that the school holidays are here the children across the road ( and their friends) are swimming and playing in the pool. Sam would LOVE to join them and has been doing a fair bit of barking and standing up at the fence. We are on 1 acre blocks and his pen is set back from the road so we are a reasonable distance away.

Any ideas how I can distract him? I don't want this to go on for the whole 6 weeks.

[B-Q]

I had this problem with Mac and Quinn. Calling them in every time wasn't working so one day when I noticed the kids out I called the girls up, started a distance away from the fence and played with them, played a bit of look at that and slowly moved in over about 15 minutes. I was prepared for much more work but they seemed to get over it pretty fast and its not really much of an issue anymore.