Barking dogs.

Neighbour up the back has been working away on some sort of landscaping on the other side of the hedge. Peeking through I can see a fence has gone up with mesh. Turns out they have a dog. That's good, I like doggos and they have a fence so seems responsible.

Well, no. This thing barks. A lot. During the day when nobody is home. Woofy barking not screechy yapping. Sounds like a menacing dog.

On one occasion I have heard a Chinese voice scolding the dog for barking but most of the time it seems nobody is home during the day. I WFH and my office window faces this neighbour. It's a quiet neighbourhood and we are some distance from the road - part of the reason we ended up here is I really like the relative quiet.

For some reason today it is much better, only had one short period of woofing - which is tolerable.

I had printed out in English and Chinese language the Auckland Council information sheets on nuisance barking and was going to put it in their letterbox but hopefully I won't need to. Fingers crossed.