A Croatian court has ordered that a dog named Medo must let sleeping neighbors lie, and has warned his owner he will have to pay some €2,800 ($3,160) if the barking pooch doesn’t keep a lid on it for the night.

The injunction was leveled against the 3-year-old mutt in the
northern village of Pula, making him the only dog in the country
to face a nighttime barking ban, AP reports.

Medo will now remain locked up in a barn from 8 pm to 8 am
instead of being allowed to go on the prowl.

Twitter users have also taken up the cause with a #freemedo
campaign. Others, in perhaps a strange decision, have
appropriated Je suis Charlie, the slogan adopted by supporters of
freedom of speech and freedom of the press after the 7 January
Charlie Hebdo massacre, to throw their support behind the dog.
#JeSuisMedo has, perhaps predictably, gone viral.