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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

I have had wine and am feeling frazzled

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Doubletrouble99 · 24/06/2018 00:11

It's illegal to kill bats, he's a stupid idiot.

Doubletrouble99 · 24/06/2018 00:08

I live in the countryside and am always amused by these silly arses.
Another slant I have is the people who moved next door to the lovely country hotel which is renowned as a wedding venue, and complain about the noise of wedding guests!! They tried to get their drinks licence removed because guests were drinking at the weddings!

ErrolTheDragon · 23/06/2018 23:30

How can anyone not like bats?

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ErrolTheDragon · 23/06/2018 23:26

This thread should be nominated for Mnset classics

I already did, it's under consideration.

Cull bats? If he mentions it again point out they're defending you all from plagues of mosquitos etc. Given that this ignorant twerp might try to take matters into his own hands maybe make sure he knows not to touch bats because of the extraordinarily unlikely possibility of contracting rabies. That might send them scuttling back to town.

elephantoverthehill · 23/06/2018 22:13

Ah that's the problem. Mr NDN is actually bats and doesn't like real bats stealing his thunder.

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shiklah · 23/06/2018 22:00

I have a new story! I have been flat out working but tonight, when I got home at 8, DH said Mr N had been round. Apparently he wants us to 'cull' the bats, as they are upsetting them. DH told him bats are a protected species and in fact, we had provided over 40 homemade bat boxes over the last 2 years because we are so fond of them. Mr N felt this was 'unbelievable' and he 'literally can'r believe it'.

He left confused, apparently. DH is massive and was wearing chain saw trousers, a vest, chainsaw gloves, protective boots, a hat hat and was filthy which could have presented a slightly menacing image, upon reflection.

I hope he leaves the bats alone, we love those fury critters.

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Scoopofchaff · 23/06/2018 21:42

This thread should be nominated for Mnset classics

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shiklah · 21/06/2018 15:13

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

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Oldsu · 19/06/2018 16:49

OP this thread made me listen to the Bonzo Dog Doo Da bands 'jollity farm' google it - you might want to put it on loud speaker and play it outside their house

PositivelyPERF · 19/06/2018 10:39

about the seagulls on the roof and the age of the building. Not the condition of the building, just the age. It’s an historic coastal city I bet I know where that is! Does it have a glass roof and a courtyard in the middle? I stayed there and those fucking seagulls are ENORMOUS noisy bastards! They look at you with utter distain, if you try to shoo them.

Kotare · 19/06/2018 10:39

This thread has made me quite homesick. I'm a country girl but now live in NZ.

I have to admit that I do feel sorry for some of the migrants here who moved to the country here. Farmers who grow kiwifruit or grapes for wine making use helicopters or giant fans for frost control. Overnight.

So a nice move the the country can mean many weeks of being kept up all night!

I live in the city so am kept awake by helicopters looking for criminals. :-) Or our posher neighbours.

WTFnnoh · 19/06/2018 09:51

I’m sorry OP but these complaints are hilarious and the kind of thing that makes my day. I used to work for a guy who ran holiday cottages and some of the complaints he received were awesome. Like, the slide in the children’s play area is too steep (a standard sort of kiddies slide) and there was a hair (a single hair!) in the dishwasher. Now I run holiday lets for city breaks and I’ve had a couple of crackers of my own- complaint about the seagulls on the roof and the age of the building. Not the condition of the building, just the age. It’s an historic coastal city and there’s nothing I can or would want to do about either of these “problems”.

I would just have a right laugh at these neighbours. They sound like a hoot.

SapphireSeptember · 18/06/2018 23:10

@TheHodgeoftheHedge That made me cry. What horrible people. I hope karma gets them.

That video of Pinto the horse is hilarious. Also, there's nothing quite like an annoyed Texan lady.

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shiklah · 18/06/2018 22:48

I asked DH to move the ewes ready fro shearing tomorrow. For a laugh he says he'll do it in the bee keeping suit and pretend theres a noxious gas leak from the septic tank which is near their conservatory (seriously what a place to build it - over looking the septic tank!).

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UpstartCrow · 18/06/2018 22:42

Have a festival in the field, we'll all come and drink cider and sing along to The Wurzels on the main stage.

MipMipMip · 18/06/2018 22:37

Please please but them this for Christmas If you haven't bumped them off and buried them under the manure like. www.shopnewzealand.co.nz/categories/food-beverage/confectionary/novelty-chocolate/sheep-droppings-chocolate-covered-peanuts

dannydyerismydad · 18/06/2018 21:07

He's lucky you keep sheep and not hippos. Have you seen how they poo?

Racecardriver · 18/06/2018 21:01

By the way, if you do succeed in getting rid of your neighbours please send me a rightmove link. I would pay goodoneu to have a good view of shitting sheep from my breakfast table.

Racecardriver · 18/06/2018 21:00

Buy some really aggressive geese that occasionally find their way into your MDNs garden through some mysterious gap in the hedge that you are categorically unable to locate. Preferably Every Saturday morning so they are obliged to spend the afternoon trying to shop away angry geese.

sashh · 18/06/2018 20:48

UrbaneSprawl

You were n supposed to blow the bloody doors off.

elephantoverthehill · 18/06/2018 19:49

I have a farmer's son in my tutor group. Earlier in the year he brought in an incubator and some fertilized eggs to hatch. It was a really good experience for the 'townie' students but I did have to explain ad nauseam about 'special cuddles', between the cockerel and the hens.

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shiklah · 18/06/2018 17:39

I might have one of my hens brood peacocks - that would be fun and deeply confusing for them :)

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Degustibusnonestdisputandem1 · 18/06/2018 17:29

Get some peacocks, we had them in the garden growing up, they make loads of noise and scratch cars and crap on your doorstep! 😂

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 18/06/2018 16:57

Guilty verdicts all round, presumably.

They are innocent, as all working dogs are!

derxa · 18/06/2018 14:35

We have various events in a field next to ours and they hire our fields for the car park/camping. We've had various 'hilarious' incidents over the years.
Some men were having a piss up outside their tent and then one literally turned himself towards the kitchen window and literally had a piss. Then there was the woman who brought her dog to a dog agility event and asked my father if she could practise dog trialling with his sheep. He was deaf as a post and misunderstood. So she went out and started Thankfully the organisers sent her off with a flea in her ear.

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