I have a side door that we use all of the time, with bright lights beside it. Since I have dogs in the back yard now I turned off that light and the front porch got all of the traffic. The dogs were closed in the garage until the traffic stopped, but even so I didn't want people walking up to that side of the house and their conversations setting the dogs off. These two are generally okay in most occasions, but I've had animals in the past who were alarmed by the trick-or-treaters.

SRS