please advise me how to best approach neighbor about barking dog

[landphil]

My neighbor recently got a young dog dog. I think it's a bichon frise.

There is a high wall between our houses so I can't see but I think he lets it into his garden every hour or so where it runs around. it also barks really loudly in a high pitched wu wu wuooooowoowoo way. Just for about one or two minutes( sometimes longer ) until he lets it back in.

However it's pretty annoying as it's otherwise a very quiet area, and it does happen several times a day .

I can hear it from every room in my house.

I don't think there's a welfare issue - he's a nice man and I have seen him walking the dog .

We get on well but are not friends as such.

What is the nicest way to approach him to ask him if he could do something about the noise? I think he will be ok about me speaking to him , and I suspect he just does not realise how much the noise travels ( His house is double glazed - mine isn't !)
I just want to do it in as kind and effective way possible and hoped I could get advice here. I've seen lote of websites about training dogs not to bark etc

Thanks

if it barks for 'one or two minutes' surely that is not unreasonable even if it happens 'several times a day'?

i don't think i would approach a neighbour on this issue, certainly not unless i could guarantee virtual silence from my own garden impossible with my dc

if you really can't stand it, perhaps you could just let him know in a friendly tone that you often hear the dog barking to be let back in? that might be enough to spur the owner into opening the door asap when the dog is barking?

Agree with herladyship. If it's barking for hours, then you have a point. All dogs bark sometimes.

I would try and ignore - it's only for a few minutes at a time.

id keep quiet if i were you, its a couple of minutes. If it happens early in the morning or late at night then maybe drop him a note.

My neighbour did this, we were keeping our dog in the living room/kitchen when we were off out in the evening sometimes. Anyway, apparently he was howling the place down when we were out. She put a very polite note thorugh the door, i was of course mortified and went and apologised - we were new neighbours so i dread to think what she must have thought. Fortunately, letting the bloody hound have the run of the house cured the problem, even if it did mean he would jump on our bed the minute we closed the front door.

Reasonable pet owners will be more than happy to address issues, but a couple of minutes barking isn't a big deal, loving the wuuuwuwuwuwuwu description though :)