Barking mad

Monty, (perhaps responding to Bella's illness?) has decided that it is time to go barking mad.  Especially at bedtime.  He takes up positions around the house, and opens his mouth and shouts.  It's incredibly frustrating, to hear the barking just as one child or the other is about to think about dropping off to sleep.... and to know that this will keep them awake another five, ten, even sixty minutes.

Yours, seriously considering a muzzle,
N.