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

Very small, furry non-fire breathing dragons?

OMG, what has the man got against bats?! I have been following this thread with interest as we have a small holding with ponies and sheep and we have heard some daft things but I will go terminator on your neighbour's ass if he touches the bats! I was so happy when we moved here to find hundreds of bats flying around at night. DH wandered outside one evening looking for me, to find me standing in the front garden with my eyes shut and hands held out in front of me as bats swooped all around me. "What on earth are you doing?" he asked. "Hush," I said. "And you have to call me Khaleesi from now on."

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Get one of these and point the arse end at their conservatory.

Aww, shiklah, no wonder you love bats, that’s so sweet.

I also love the term flittermouse.

This is the perfect time for sitting by a window watching bats flit across the sky, by the way - still light enough to see them. (Maybe down south you'd want to be a bit earlier?)

I like the old name 'flittermouse'.

Oh wow, now that's great! Did Mr N ever pick the wrong people to suggest chiropterocide to.

OP just tell them that you've been thinking things over and understand that they don't like animals spoiling their view etc, so you're getting rid of the animals and turning the field next to their house into a campsite, and to launch the campsite you're holding a festival there first.

I would pay to see their faces if you tell them that.

SimonBridges Sun 24-Jun-18 10:23:36

I thought you weren’t allowed to use a loft space that had resident bats.

We've been happily co-existing for over 20 years.

Errol, your husband sounds fabulous!

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

Wonder if Mr N will complain about naked sheep now?

We had some pipistrelles summer roosting under our soffits (not actually in the loft) but for a while we didn't realise this and DH wondered what the shits in the alleyway were. So he got out his microscope .... bat shit is indigestible insect parts, lots of fragments of compound eyes.

Love really idea! Definately tell them in passing the next time you see them!

That's nuts! I love living close to wildlife and animals (although pigs can be a little fragrant) and watching what they get up to is part of the fun of living in the countryside.

I’d go round, knock on the door and tell him that you’re moving all the animals so he needn’t complain anymore.

And that you’ve sold all your farmland to Barrat who will be building a 100 house new build estate.

Perhaps also drop that it will be one of those 50:50 private:council estates :)

Deathray - hope your brother is not the townie wanted to fence the Nes Forest?

I thought you weren’t allowed to use a loft space that had resident bats.

What possible harm could bats be causing?! I think it is one of the joys of a summer evening, watching the bats whizzing round at dusk.

I love bats, I have a colony in my loft. I love to watch them whizzing round the lamp-post outside catching insects, but my God! The damage they do in the loft is horrendous!

One of them got inside one of my costume storage bags wee'd and poo-ed all over the silk costume, and then died in there! Bat guano is incredibly corrosive. There wasn't a lot left of hundreds of pounds worth of costume. (Plus I had to dispose of the decomposing bat)

They do generally leave a horrid bat-poo, smelly mess in the corner of the loft that live in. I try to keep them away from my costume storage, but t's not always possible :-( . I wouldn't try to evict them though!

What possible harm could bats be causing?! I think it is one of the joys of a summer evening, watching the bats whizzing round at dusk.

How can anyone be upset by bats? I'd keep an eye on your bat boxes OP.
Well either that or make another 100 and deliberately put them against your border with the neighbours ;)

When my brother moved to the New Forest (Hampshire), he gleefully told me that now if he is late for work, it isn't car traffic but horse/cow traffic that is the problem. Problem not being the right word because he loves it. He told me (sadly not in this job anymore) that he felt all the troubls melt away on the drive back home, passing sheep and cows. Oh and occasionally donkeys!

I am a dye hard townie. The animals would not bother me at all. The only problem is the public transport or mostly lack of.

How can you be offended by bats? What are they doing, mistaking him for a moth and swooping down on him?

I would love to have his view. We live in a lovely village but are surrounded by trees and my neighbours fucking enormous garage that he built right up against our back fence last year without even telling us what he was planning. I would love to have a view of a field of sheep, shagging or otherwise. I never realised how much I would miss the views.

I had to laugh the other day when a woman on 'Escape to the Country' said they would have to get a ride on lawn mower when told the house they were being shown had 2 fields! That's what the animals do - eat the grass! She was moving to the countryside so she could keep horses.