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

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shiklah · 16/06/2018 23:02

I live in a very rural community which has become popular with commuters in the last 5 years. Over the last 18 months the following complaints have featured heavily on the local WhatsApp and Facebook groups:

Cows blocking the road for 10 mins (they do this twice a day and have for hundred of years as they go in for milking)
Escapee sheep roaming the verges and traffic islands
Cockerels crowing
Church Bells

Our neighbours moved in Jan 2016 and have built a conservatory overlooking our field. They have complained:

A ram was tupping ewes in the field
Many Sheep gave birth in the field
A sheep had a prolapsed and was attended by the vet in the field (the vet delivered 2 healthy lambs, revived them and saved the ewe, it was awesome and brilliant and they are all healthy and happy but apparently it spoiled mothers day breakfast)
A fox killed a rabbit and ate it in our field
A ferral cat lives in the hedge at the side of our field
A sheep pooed when Mr Neighbour was eating breakfast

Th least one was reported to me at 7pm this eve when I was getting out of my car at the end of a 60 hour working week. He DROVE to my house to tell me a sheep pooed in his view whilst he was eating breakfast in his conservatory that he built, overlooking my field, that has been their since before my house was built, in 1762. I literally don't know know what to say to these idiots any more. AIBU to simply laugh in their faces and move on with my day Grin

I have had wine and am feeling frazzled Grin

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KeepServingTheDrinks · 16/06/2018 23:19

x-post avocados!

KeepServingTheDrinks · 16/06/2018 23:18

I thought about Linda Snell too, Mrs Wembley.

OP, you need a standard answer. Something like "ah yes... the countryside isn't for everyone, is it" or probably something better.

On your 5 point plan, I think you should add some extra animals. A cockerel? A pride of lions? A herd of wildebeest?

AvocadosBeforeMortgages · 16/06/2018 23:17

Please purchase some chickens, including a cockerel, and locate their coop as close as possible to NDN's house, as as far away from your own. Do not make any attempt to exclude light streaming into the coop early in the morning.

MrsWembley · 16/06/2018 23:15

It’s just an everyday tale of country folkWink

You have to now keep us regularly updated with stories of their Snell-ness...

Singlenotsingle · 16/06/2018 23:14

What exactly does he expect you to do about it? He should put blinds up in his conservatory, eat in another room, or put a fence, trees or something up at the bottom of his garden! Ffs!

Scoopofchaff · 16/06/2018 23:14
  1. buy aggressive bull and place in field opposite conservatory
mcqueencar · 16/06/2018 23:13

Sheep & lambs would be preferable in my eyes.

mcqueencar · 16/06/2018 23:12

Also I’m not sure how you can avoid wildlife. As a born & raised Londoner I’ve had loads of fox encounters, & they make a racket when they get jiggy. Plenty of tom cats roaming the streets, noisy parakeets, shitting pigeons & rats.

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shiklah · 16/06/2018 23:11

OK I'm making a list

  1. move manure heat to o/s their conservatory
  2. accuse Mr N of voyeurism

I need more, a five point plan...

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thisonebreath · 16/06/2018 23:11

YANBU. I live in the countryside, it's amazing the amount if people who move/visit who are surprised at the mud, wildlife and 'tupping' animals. Hmm (I assume you mean they're having sex - the animals that is!)

xJessica · 16/06/2018 23:11

For God's sake, some people! We live right next to a field of sheep - there must be about a metre between our windows down the side of the house and the fence, and we regularly get woken by the lambs playing and thundering past (surprisingly loud!!) But we think it's hilarious and cute and we love it! Plus we always think how lucky we are to have that right there - the kids love it and get so excited in the spring when the lambs start to appear.

ElChan03 · 16/06/2018 23:11

Lol that's crazy? How can you complain about those things in the countryside. I always leave extra time for travelling due to tractors, horses, sheep, donkeys, pigs in the road etc.
It's a part of country life... that and ticks when you walk in the fields!

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 16/06/2018 23:10

At least your dogs must be extraordinarily well behaved, it seems no one’s complained about them yet.

Dontknowwhatimdoing · 16/06/2018 23:10

They sound like great entertainment. They are so far beyond ridiculous surely you have to laugh at them!

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shiklah · 16/06/2018 23:09

They own 3 minis
mums is red
dads is blue
daughters is white

FFS!!!

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SimonBridges · 16/06/2018 23:09

I grew up in a small rural village which also happened to have a direct train to that London.
In the 80s people discovered this and moved in.
I think that the local paper used to print the letters for the comedy value. Common themes were ‘why does the farmer allow his cows to foul on the road?’ ‘The farm next door smells’ and ‘we were snowed in for a week, where is the gritter lorry?’

Scoopofchaff · 16/06/2018 23:09

shiklah ah well, at least you know where to position the dung heap now Grin Wink

NameChangedAgain18 · 16/06/2018 23:09

This can't be real, surely?

Yumyumpigs · 16/06/2018 23:09

Tipping =shagging

😂🤣😂🤣 🐏🐑🐏🐑

LakieLady · 16/06/2018 23:08

All of those complaints are funny but this one

A sheep pooed when Mr Neighbour was eating breakfast

had me guffawing.

I think you should tell him that the sheep have complained that he watches them while they're having a crap and that the ram wants you to call the police because Mr N is a peeping tom.

UptobedNOW · 16/06/2018 23:08

Not sure what happened there, but in essence, they should fuck off...

monkeysox · 16/06/2018 23:07

Tupping if fucking. Hth

Fucksgiven · 16/06/2018 23:07

Tupping is shagging

Aw12345 · 16/06/2018 23:07

Totally agree. It's like moving opposite a school and complaining about children! Countryside = animals. And btw, unless someone is Vegan and has never consumed any animal products then they should be grateful to farmers for producing their food!

Bambamber · 16/06/2018 23:07

I would probably put a massive sign up along the lines of 'fuck off back to the city you miserable twat' but then I'm petty like that