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As Halloween approaches, do you feel like barking at the moon? You might want to resist the temptation.

That’s the message from Norfolk County OPP after they mediated a settlement between two neighbours, one of whom woke the other up by “continually barking like a dog outside the window of the residence, causing the dogs inside to bark excessively” early Saturday morning.

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It might have been the hours when the barking occurred that was the issue. He set off the howling between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Police were called to the homes at about 7:55 a.m.

“It was determined that the 41-year-old male was tired of hearing his neighbour’s dogs barking at all hours of the day and night and decided to wake his neighbour up,” by joining the mutts in making noise, police said.

Officers were able to speak to both males before the barking escalated into biting, and mediated a resolution. The two were cautioned about the Norfolk County noise bylaw.