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

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Nowthatshuge · 11/06/2026 23:23

i suspect I probably am being unreasonable but wanted peoples thoughts on whether I should make a friendly request to my neighbours..
they seem to wait until gone 11pm each week to drag their bins down the alleyway between our terraced houses. The issue is (and I think this is where I’m being unreasonable) is that it makes my dogs bark because it’s quite loud and that wakes me and my kids up.

i guess the solution would be to somehow train my dogs not to bark but I A - don’t know how and B - kind of want them to alert me to something that sounds so close to the house.
They’re not particularly barky dogs in general.
we’re on good terms, would I seem like a complete arse if I just asked them if there’s any way they could but their bins out any earlier? They have two primary aged kids so I assume they wait until they are in bed etc

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Nowthatshuge · 11/06/2026 23:29

AlcoholicAntibiotic · 11/06/2026 23:26

The problem is more with your dogs rather than your neighbours - I assume the noise or the bins wouldn’t wake you up if the dogs didn’t bark?

You can’t expect people to rearrange their lives because you have dogs.

That’s kind of what I thought myself tbf. I’m very surprised their two, far yappier dogs than mine, don’t wake their house up

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Nowthatshuge · 11/06/2026 23:28

44PumpLane · 11/06/2026 23:24

Could you offer to put it out earlier for them to save them the inconvenience?

I definitely would but our bins are in the back garden behind locked gates.
thanks for the suggestion though.
if it’s relevant, we live in a village so it’s generally pretty quiet, nobody is used to noise after about 9pm I don’t think 😂

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AlcoholicAntibiotic · 11/06/2026 23:26

The problem is more with your dogs rather than your neighbours - I assume the noise or the bins wouldn’t wake you up if the dogs didn’t bark?

You can’t expect people to rearrange their lives because you have dogs.

44PumpLane · 11/06/2026 23:24

Could you offer to put it out earlier for them to save them the inconvenience?

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