Ask next door neighbours to take their bins out before 11pm?

You could ask but they don’t have to oblige.

We put our bins out late and wouldn’t change this if a neighbour asked. I’d suggest taking the dog to training classes for the barking or training them yourself to recognise the sound of a bin.

I’d be nice about it and not take offence to the suggestion though. It depends how awkward you’d feel to them saying no.

We're not 11pm but we put ours out once we've finished the clear up at the end of the day, so that ALL the rubbish, including that from any snacks/treats we've had of an evening, go in the bin and isn't hanging around for another week. It's likely 11pm is just before bed, so they're chucking the last few bits in, and taking them out while letting the dogs out for last wee.

Get someone to wheel your bins up and down to do this training with them. Shouldn't take more than a few days if you're consistent with it.

That’s what i do. It’s better for you, and for them: someone’s sorting the bins out for you.

That’s a win-win.

so people on shift work can’t ever take their bins out?

FGS just talk to them, why wouldn’t you? This is a normal, neighbourly conversation.

I wouldn't even mention the dog. Simply ask if they could do you a big favour and put their bin out a little earlier, as the noise is amplified by the alleyway and it wakes you up.
Plenty of people go to bed around 10pm and don't want to be woken up later an hour.

I think it’s ridiculous that people don’t think you can ask! It’s 11pm it will be very noisy echoing through the alley way. Of course the dogs will alert bark at something happening late at night when it’s quiet once per week.

Obviously if they can’t do it earlier for some reason you will accept it with good grace.

Or the other way is asking if they can help training the dog not to bark with some exposure therapy of them wheeling the bin up and down lots every evening for a while 🤣

Ignore the posts about needing to train your dogs not to bark. You don't train your dog to go against their protective instincts. Curbing the barking, yes, within reason.

Oh and our bin men comes from about 6am especially in summer so you are told they must be put out between 6pm and 6am to guarantee collection

The next street is terraced so they all use the back to wheel their bins down. Some do it at midnight and some start as early as 4:30am. Drives me up the wall. It is loud! And for some, the length of the street, at 5am seems a very long time.

My neighbour wakes me up at 6.30 am putting his bins out. Drives me mad. I lose two hours sleep and feel groggy all day. No dogs involved.

Yabu, some people work late - we can’t put ours out before 6pm here so ours are pub out at 10.30pm when we get in as out that day from 5pm!

I would put mine out in the morning in this scenario. I’ve never know putting bins out early to be enforced. When we go on holiday we put ours out two days early.

Yanbu, I've been woken up by bins being dragged about before. Have a friendly chat and ask.

Do you need to mention the dogs? I would say that it wakes you up!!

In the summer with the windows open it would wake me up. It’s anti-social.

I agree that 11 p m is too late to put out bins except on the rare occasion if somebody has forgotten or gets home late. But when you can't even go out your house without setting of a dog barking it's very annoying. This is the problem not the bins.

Oh my word this thread is wild! It’s so English/uk!! Just ask them?? I’m sure you’d do it in a nice way, and say your dogs are the problem, but that this is what happens. You could see if there’s a solution that’s more convenient for them like they earlier put it just outside the locked gate and then you drag it out when you drag yours. This to me shouldn’t be some kind of people being unreasonable/reasonable drama. It’s just a conversation about shared living spaces / noise / garden fences / parking etc. It just needs discussing, and as long as you make it clear they’re not being unreasonable but that your dog barking is the issue, but this is the trigger for them so is there a way around it? then in my view that’s perfectly adult and fine. If there isn’t some kind of easy win then it’s a case of putting up with the barking. I don’t know why ppl are so hesitant to discuss these things in Britain and just put up with it for years.

I had an American neighbour and she went to my mum asking “when the (English) neighbours say to me “it’s so lovely that your son rides his trike with his dad to the end of the street every day at 7am”, are they saying that’s annoying?” Mum said yes. She said “why don’t they just say, “would you mind not riding the trike at 7 because it wakes me up”.” I’m so in agreement with her! So much unnecessary angst vecause we are afraid of speaking about anything other than the bloody weather!! I don’t think having a conversation is unreasonable OP.

Are you just not allowed to have your bins collected if you work until 10pm? They wouldn’t be allowed to put their bin out in the morning either according to other posters.

I think there is no harm asking if you are polite about it and accept it if they say no. I would change my routine within reason if my neighbours had a good reason for asking.

It's too late to be doing it anyway, regardless of the dogs.