雞犬不寧

From Liu Zongyuan's famous prose Discourse of the Snake Catcher:

悍吏之吾鄉，叫囂乎東西，隳突乎南北，譁然而駭者，雖雞狗不得寧焉。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]

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悍吏之吾乡，叫嚣乎东西，隳突乎南北，哗然而骇者，虽鸡狗不得宁焉。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

From: c. 805~815, 柳宗元,《捕蛇者説》, translated into English as Catching Snakes by H. A. Giles

Hàn lì zhī wú xiāng, jiàoxiāo hū dōngxī, huītū hū nánběi, huárán ér hài zhě, suī jī gǒu bù dé níng yān. [Pinyin]

When those fierce government tax-collectors come, they snarl and harry wherever they reach, startling the village and upsetting the domestic animals like dogs and fowls.

Note that in many chengyu, 狗 (gǒu) is often substituted by a less derogatory and seemingly more formal synonym 犬 (quǎn).

雞犬不寧

1. (raising such a fearful din that) everyone is nervous; great disturbance or turmoil