I love dogs, I own 2, however, my lovely new neighbors leave theirs out all hours and in all weather, which causes them to bark- a lot. I could not even hear the Superbowl on my television over those dogs! The Superbowl people! Since I knew there was not a covenant in the neighborhood regarding barking dogs, I knew the association could do nothing about it, so I contacted the city. There is a barking  dog ordinance (cities think of everything!).

If a dog is barking between the hours of 9 pm and 7 am, you can call the police-7542550, and they will send someone out to ticket them. I guess after three tickets they start getting fines. I also found out that in Wilson county, if a dog is left out without food, water, or a shelter, they can be removed from the residence by Wilson Co. Animal Control. I hate to go that route, however, I feel bad watching those dogs out in the rain with no shelter all the time. The guy that lives there has a bad temper, what would you do? 

Report it.  If they don't have any shelter I bet there are times when they don't have any food or water for a while either. 

My experience with the city fines are that there is a fine from the beginning, but if you go to court they will waive the first fine. If you get another ticket within a year, maybe two I can't remember, then you have to pay both fines, and they aren't cheap.  We got a ticket about a year ago when we went out of town for a night.  Since then we have given our neighbors a key to our house and they will lock our dogs inside if they are barking at night.