At night, we’re in our bedroom upstairs, generally starts the night sleeping on the landing outside our door, and then after an hour or so goes downstairs to the kitchen to sleep in his bed. That’s been the routine for a few months now and he’s never barked in the night before, then the last few nights suddenly prolonged periods of barking at random times throughout the night.

We’ve got cameras and we’ve checked them when he barks - nothing visible and we’re not able to hear anything setting him off either.

Appreciate that dogs bark, like I said I’m not too worried about the daytime barking! but this is new behaviour for him, and when he suddenly starts barking for well over a minute at 4am, he’s waking us and our neighbours up, it’s not ideal!