Blue;
One way to deter the dog is to make it so your trash is not palatable to him. Put a little bleach or ammonia in the closed garbage can or bag..he will soon decide that
your garbage has no charms for him.
I lived in a rural neighborhood where neighbors were 1/3 to 1/2 mile apart..but these neighbors found they could get purebred, nice looking German Shepherds for free,
..they were police training flunk outs. They were big and bad..and of course ran up and down our unpaved road. I paid little attention, until one of them threatened my son ..in front of our house.
Drawing on my childhood experience, I decided it was time to get back into Airedales..I did, and soon the German shepherds that wanted to go up and down the road were seen to be "detouring" our place by going way over in the field across the road.
I do find it humorous however, that..some of our folks in another thread, thought a Mr White should be allowed to shoot a teenager that was drunk and annoying him on his own property...yet where a dog does the same thing, ...then these same folks advise you to call the dog warden or sheriff..
Kinda funny, I thought...LOL