AIBU to think that if you hate animals you shouldn't move to the countryside?

Posted today by a friend that is dealing with a ‘Norman’

Apologies, Errol, I'm afraid I missed it!

Ah, did no-one spot my surreptitious link at 23:30 on Saturday?

I love this thread. Haven't been able to contribute to it as I'm a townie, but with a sensible concept of the countryside. But I couldn't help but contribute the MN bat - as the subject has turned to bats

Really - We went on a 'bat walk' at a local Wildlife Trust reserve once - they had bat detectors www.bats.org.uk/pages/bat_detectors.html and the experts could then tell them apart by their sound.

Just scientists being logical, UrbaneSprawl

A bit off topic, but who cares. It’s about bats :)

All those Batty people, what is the best way to observe bats? I have a few that come out at dusk and like to put on a bit of a flying display, but the buggers are quick and won’t stay still long enough for me to ID them.

Going on our local habitat- canal, some caves and old mine shafts, i think they may be Daubenton’s bats? Although they may be pipistrelles, it is difficult to estimate size even.

So. Binoculars? Infra red high speed photography? How does one go about gathering more information?

Btw, apparently they are “bird-puppies” because of their really cute little furry faces and ability to fly.

My husband did once look at a hair louse - taken from my daughter's head - under a microscope. Not a pretty sight. You can see how they have a good grip though...

I love the idea of him looking at batshit under a microscope

Is this the first recorded instance on MN if someone being quite literally batshit crazy?

one up on the daily hate mail!

This thread has made it onto an art blog....

www.sandjfineart.co.uk/2018/06/26/cottage-industry

I live in a rural area and a family have moved into the village about 18 months ago. So far they have requested people sign petitions to have the village pub closed due to noise, the kennels closed because the dogs sometimes bark too noisily and the horse rescue place closed because the donkeys are loud. They haven't had much luck!

Now that we are going off the animal ones.........
Someone moved into my village and thought the street lights had broken down. It took them a few days to realise that we don't have any.

@curry my American relatives have constant heartattacks with the roads round here in rural Somerset.

Even more so when I explained what a national speed limit sign was.

Curry that’s brilliant

Loving this thread!

Its not an animal one but I’m reminded of the young men in a huge and very shiny mercedes who stopped me in the lane and asked me where the road back to the nearest town was (about 15 miles away...). I pointed them back up the road we were on and they said no, they’d just come this way and needed the return route.

Slowly it dawned on me that they thought they were on a one way street! Took a while to persuade them that this really was a single track road and they would need to turn around and go back the way they had come. I’m still amazed that they’d managed to get so far without meeting anyone going the other way!

I'm chuckling, I agree. Like those who move to where I am and complain about smells coming from fields! 😂

Ah... church bells...

Years back I lived in a city and a central church opposite the house had struck bells rather than rung ones. The guy who ran the place was rather crackers and used to practice badly done covers of pop songs on the bells. It drove us insane and we did have a word at one point - but we are talking hours long badly done Tina Turner covers with multiple mistakes on badly tuned (can you even tune a bell? God knows, it was off key anyway) bells.

Some nice country rung bells - no problem at all.

@Errol, I do voluntary work with bats, and we were taught that the way to distinguish between mouse poo and bat poo is to crush it. Bat poo sparkles - it's a great way to get the kids on board!

Bahahaha. I used to work in a council call centre and someone once made a complaint about the rubbish dump being messy. No complaints about cows on the road though. Probably because this was rural New Zealand and not really a popular area for people to relocate to from the cities.

Some people have no sense!

I used to work for the local council in a rural market town. We had complaints about cows being let out into the fields next to houses and birds singing in the trees next to houses. Houses that had been built hundreds of years after the farm and decades after the trees were planted.

The number of complaints about church bells being rung to mark the millennium ran into high double figures. An event that happens once every 1000 years and lasts for 5 minutes but no, the "disgusted of " were not having it so out came the green ink and CAPITAL LETTERS. Deep joy.

Ahaha. This thread is awesome. Not farming related but years ago I went on a school trip to Mt Ruapehu (I’m from New Zealand). A few months earlier the mountain had been erupting some ash cloudes. Anyhow we got to go on a tour of one of the posh hotels, where the manager told us that during the eruption some of the tourists would call the front desk to complain about the noise of the sonic boom from the volcano. 😮