Pet peeve, neighbors leave porch light on

BCSnob wrote:
You all have missed the point; they’re motel 6 and have left the light on for you. Go check in.

In over 20 years of traveling with our TTs we’ve never stayed in a campground. If there is a flood light where we stay while eventing we put up something against the window where the light is coming in; we’re not going to ask the host to turn off their flood light. We use the same procedure when we sleep overnight in a parking lot in route to or from events.

We listen to barking dogs every night; it’s their job. Good luck to any neighbor who tries to get them to stop barking (we live where there are “right to farm” ordinances.

We are around off leash dogs at every event (including ours); they’re all under verbal control.

I agree with you, but I also think you are talking about different things.

RV parks and parking lots are not the same as a traditional public campground. People don't expect to have total darkness in an RV park or parking lot like they do in most public campgrounds.

Living in an agricultural area is different than living in a residential area. People expect to hear animals. And dogs will rarely bark through the night out of boredom and frustration. And the distance between the animals and a neighbor's bedroom are going to be far greater.*

A dog trial event is a lot different than a local park. The dogs are at these events specifically because they have been trained far beyond the average pet dog and are showing that training.

*Unfortunately, there are many many idiots who move into an agriculural area because of the "atmosphere" and then proceed to try to eliminate the atmospere because it's "bothersome". But that's a different problem.