Our dog normally goes to sleep about 9pm and doesn't stir until one of us goes down in the morning, and even then he just moves to a different part of the house and carries on sleeping.
Every night for the last 5 nights or so he has once during the night, usually around 3am, started howling/crying/barking. The first night I went down to him as I assumed it was something in the garden that shouldn't have been there. He couldn't get out there quickly enough and ran around the garden like a dog possessed for 10 minutes looking for something.
I haven't gone down to him since that first night (the barking/crying doesn't last for long and I appear to be the only one who gets disturbed by it apart from the first night when he was severely distressed and crying)
This morning I decided to play detective in the garden and I have found a birds nest in one of the bushes (along with shed loads of birds poo on the ornamental brick wall underneath the bush).
So has the dog been disturbed by the birds building their nest?
Has he been disturbed by cats coming into the garden, attracted by the birds nest?
it's quite late for a birds next isn't it? The nest is empty this morning.
WWYD?
Remove the nest so that the dog stops waking me at 3am?
Leave the nest, clear up the birds mess, let nature do its thing and use ear plugs?
something else?
TIA