Absently
30-09-2013, 03:38 PM
(I'm feeling serious Déjà vu from writing this haha) Recently new people moved up above where I live and I'm guessing one works a morning shift and the other works a night shift?! (I may be completely wrong on this) Basically, I go to bed around like 11.30-12.30 most nights, get up like 7.40 most days for college/jake for work. We normally pop the dog in a cage at night time (I get that it sounds cruel that she's in a cage, but she doesn't mind it one bit and normally pops herself in there during the day when she wants a little snooze or goes to play with some toys that are in there) She's mainly in the cage due to the fact of her waking us up during the night from hopping on and off of the bed and she'll poop in the apartment, whereas in cage she won't poop blahblahblahetc.
SO HERE'S MY PROBLEM. Since these people have moved in, they are up all night walking around (in what I can only assume are bloody massive shoes) this can carry on until half 5ish on wards perhaps. This wakes us up constantly, the walls are literally crap I can hear them having conversations right now as I type this.. We've also noticed the dog is beginning to cry more often in the cage at night (coinciding with them moving around at night) We can only assume that them moving around is waking her up and making her think it might be us?? Because sometimes when we're in bed talking she starts to whine a little bit (not always though, mind you)
Basically, what I'm wondering is what the heck can we do? We're not the richest of people and don't really think we're gonna find another place as cheap as this is, especially one that will allow an animal. Don't get me wrong, we're not moody neighbours, because there was a tenant in the apartment above us not so long before they moved in, but they obviously had a normal sleeping pattern and they would be in bed at pretty normal times (probs 2 or something). I wouldn't have a care in the world if they were having parties every now and again, because I mean, that's just normal. Like I don't give a **** that they're up all night, I just hate that they're walking around constantly and that their television is so loud. It'd be different if they weren't up until 5am constantly doing this.. or even if they were and weren't thumping about the place? I feel like I'm sorta contradicting myself, but it's just we both have to get up at early enough times and I sorta feel like surely we goto bed early enough we deserve the sleep we're trying to get if that makes sense. It's also disrupting the dogs timetable, we're supposed to bring her for a walk every morning, but the thing is, with barely any sleep at night it's ******* hard to do it. :(
I don't necessarily think we can complain about them, because it's not like they are partying - it's just they're constantly walking around and their television is loud enough. The other thing I can think of is tha we wear earplugs. But, what about the dog? It seems pretty likely they're the ones stressing her out by banging about. Is there any solutions to stop it from stressing her out? My mother suggested to get a plug thing that's for around Halloween time for the fireworks so it calms them or something, but I've no clue about anything like that and if it'd work for general noise?
TLDR; How do I sleep through noise and how do I stop the noise from stressing my dog out??
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SO HERE'S MY PROBLEM. Since these people have moved in, they are up all night walking around (in what I can only assume are bloody massive shoes) this can carry on until half 5ish on wards perhaps. This wakes us up constantly, the walls are literally crap I can hear them having conversations right now as I type this.. We've also noticed the dog is beginning to cry more often in the cage at night (coinciding with them moving around at night) We can only assume that them moving around is waking her up and making her think it might be us?? Because sometimes when we're in bed talking she starts to whine a little bit (not always though, mind you)
Basically, what I'm wondering is what the heck can we do? We're not the richest of people and don't really think we're gonna find another place as cheap as this is, especially one that will allow an animal. Don't get me wrong, we're not moody neighbours, because there was a tenant in the apartment above us not so long before they moved in, but they obviously had a normal sleeping pattern and they would be in bed at pretty normal times (probs 2 or something). I wouldn't have a care in the world if they were having parties every now and again, because I mean, that's just normal. Like I don't give a **** that they're up all night, I just hate that they're walking around constantly and that their television is so loud. It'd be different if they weren't up until 5am constantly doing this.. or even if they were and weren't thumping about the place? I feel like I'm sorta contradicting myself, but it's just we both have to get up at early enough times and I sorta feel like surely we goto bed early enough we deserve the sleep we're trying to get if that makes sense. It's also disrupting the dogs timetable, we're supposed to bring her for a walk every morning, but the thing is, with barely any sleep at night it's ******* hard to do it. :(
I don't necessarily think we can complain about them, because it's not like they are partying - it's just they're constantly walking around and their television is loud enough. The other thing I can think of is tha we wear earplugs. But, what about the dog? It seems pretty likely they're the ones stressing her out by banging about. Is there any solutions to stop it from stressing her out? My mother suggested to get a plug thing that's for around Halloween time for the fireworks so it calms them or something, but I've no clue about anything like that and if it'd work for general noise?
TLDR; How do I sleep through noise and how do I stop the noise from stressing my dog out??
+rep to all helpful answers:)