--- title: Croatian Court Bans Dog From Barking description: They couldn't handle the woof canonical: https://time.com/3701163/croatian-court-bans-dog-from-barking/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-09T17:18:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:40.496Z og:title: Croatian Court Bans Dog From Barking og:description: Yes, really og:url: https://time.com/3701163/croatian-court-bans-dog-from-barking/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe02e39be822fc0b/69877e435f570f2196b152a8/croatia-no-barking_stam.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Croatia No Barking og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Croatian Court Bans Dog From Barking twitter:description: Yes, really twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe02e39be822fc0b/69877e435f570f2196b152a8/croatia-no-barking_stam.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Croatian Court Bans Dog From Barking by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 9, 2015 5:18 PM UTC  Dog Medo barks in a backyard in Peroj, Croatia, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015\. A fed up neighbor from a northern Croatian Adriatic village has won a temporary court order that says Medo must stop barking at night. If not, owner Anton Simunovic must pay some €2,800 ($3,160). The 3-year-old mutt, now confined in a barn between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. instead of being allowed to roam, is the only dog in Croatia slapped with a no-barking injunction. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) Dog Medo barks in a backyard in Peroj, Croatia, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015\. A fed up neighbor from a northern Croatian Adriatic village has won a temporary court order that says Medo must stop barking at night. If not, owner Anton Simunovic must pay some €2,800 ($3,160). The 3-year-old mutt, now confined in a barn between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. instead of being allowed to roam, is the only dog in Croatia slapped with a no-barking injunction. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)Darko Bandic—AP by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Feb 9, 2015 5:18 PM UTC Dog owners might want to reconsider before relocating to northern Croatia, where a court recently gave a dog an injunction for … barking. Medo, a 3-year-old mutt, has been given a temporary court order to stop barking between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m, [the _Associated Press_ reports](http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/09/croatian-court-orders-dog-not-to-bark-at-night-or-owner-faces-fine/). His owner’s neighbor is suing for more than $1,500 in damages, claiming that Medo’s barking has negatively impacted her health. “He barks normally, like any dog does,” owner Anton Simunovic said. “He barks when he sees a cat, or if someone unknown comes to his territory.” The temporary court order has prompted Simunovic to confine Medo to a barn at night. Until a court in Pula issues a final ruling, the injunction stipulates that Simunovic will be charged up to $3,160 if Medo barks at inopportune hours. While Medo hasn’t made friends with his neighbors the pup has a strong social media solidarity movement. Almost 43,000 people have joined Medo’s Facebook page, many of whom are posting pictures and videos of their pets barking in support: \[[_AP_](http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/09/croatian-court-orders-dog-not-to-bark-at-night-or-owner-faces-fine/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3701163/croatian-court-bans-dog-from-barking/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3701163/croatian-court-bans-dog-from-barking/"},"headline":"Croatian Court Bans Dog From Barking","datePublished":"2015-02-09T17:18:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:40.496Z","description":"They couldn't handle the woof","url":"https://time.com/3701163/croatian-court-bans-dog-from-barking/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Bizarre","animal","croatia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe02e39be822fc0b/69877e435f570f2196b152a8/croatia-no-barking_stam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe02e39be822fc0b/69877e435f570f2196b152a8/croatia-no-barking_stam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Croatia No Barking","caption":"Croatia No Barking","creditText":"Darko Bandic—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3701163/croatian-court-bans-dog-from-barking/","name":"Croatian Court Bans Dog From Barking"}}]}] ```