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Hi everyone, you all give such great cat advice I thought I might ask your advice on an issue I am having. I live in a semi rural area and our next door neighbors got an "outside" dog. He's not allowed in the house. When they first got him they said they want to be sure he doesn't bark and bother me. The first few days he howled when they left for hours on end, he's about six months old, but then he calmed down. But now he barks for at least 1/2 hour in the middle of the night. He barked loudly last night from 4-4:30 am and totally woke me up so I couldn't go back to sleep. Now tonight he has barked from midnight and it is 1:00 now and it's still barking. I have been nice to them, bought the dog toys, we were very friendly before the dog. Also at the same time one of their "hens" decided it was a rooster and crows really early every morning which is totally annoying so I really need my sleep at night. I talked to them nicely about the dog and asked if they could bring him in at night, and they said that there was a skunk around and that's why he's barking and I tried to tell them that dogs find things to bark at at night but they just seemed annoyed. Now it is really bothering me and keeping me up, I have two children on the autism spectrum who are starting school next week and I really need my sleep. I was hoping we could remain friendly but at this point I just want the noise to stop. I have been yelling "Quiet!" at night hoping they will hear and it will clue them in but it doesn't seem to matter. I asked them to put him in the garage but they made some excuse "It's too hot" which is bs. The dog is a poodle and will start getting cold out in the rain in the winter too. Any advice is appreciated.