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

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/12/short-legged-horse-rescue-mayflower

Does anyone remember the pony with really short legs where the owners had to put up a sign because she kept being reported as stuck in the mud?

Guilty verdicts all round, presumably.

We all wondered how the sheepdog trials would fare.

Guilty verdicts all round, presumably.

In my parents' village, the nimbys got signs put up all around the village green that dogs should be kept on leads in the"park". We all wondered how the sheepdog trials would fare.

@lostplot at the randy geldings - well, I always assumed it was a rand-related thing anyway.

Or op, you could get an 'assertive' mare - one where I used to ride got so frisky when in season that she used to back any unsuspecting gelding into a corner and attempt to force herself upon them. The poor boys looked quite horrified

I don't know why people move out then moan - surely the things they're moaning about are the things that make people want to live in the country? Like woolly baa-lambs and wot not?

Remembered one I was told, about a guy who accosted a local farmer and asked him to wash his tractor wheels off before leaving fields, as it was dropping mud all over the road outside his (very rural) house. I believe the answer was short and sharp

We have a small campsite on our farm. Most people are fab, but we have had complaints that we left our Highland cattle out in the rain instead of putting them in a stable (coats so thick that backs need to be clipped if kept indoors). I explained that they were bred to withstand winter in the Scottish highlands, but the camper pointed out that they didn't live there now!

One complained that the electric fence that my friend and I erected would cause his pacemaker to malfunction. He still refused to believe that he would be perfectly safe, even when my friend spoke with him - my friend is a Cardiac Physiologist.

Someone complained about the harvest noise at 7pm on a Saturday evening - did I realise that he was trying to camp over there? I suggested that next time he avoided visiting sites in august with 'farm' in the address.

A few people have complained that my dog is allowed to run free while theirs has to be on a lead. I explain that my dog fully acknowledges that he will be shot if he chases cows/sheep/goats/chickens/horses, and that their dog can be off lead if it agrees to the same.

And we have had many, many reports of dead animals over the years - mostly my old horse who used to sunbathe in the lean-to where only his extended legs and feet could be seen. Most recently 'dead' newborn lambs that hadn't moved for over half an hour (they sleep most of the day like most newborns). I would rather people report any little thing and find all to be fine, than people be scared to approach, so report away if you think something isn't quite right.

OP, I find the word TWAT favourable as it's all straight lines. Either sheep nuts every morning, spot spray some troublesome thistles, or if you're really a caring neighbour, then protect their sensitive little eyes with next years straw stack.

Spudlet, both of my geldings do that! A guy once had a go at me when my horse 'went' outside his house. What sort of idiot buys a house on a bridle path if they don't like horses?!

If you can borrow a heavy horse stallion... some stallions like to let it all hang out, then slap their danglies against their bellies. I can confirm that a Shire doing this creates an impressive spectacle - and a noise that tends to echo

That'd put them off their scones. 😈

Shockers, I did the same with the RSPCA.

They made me clap near the horses to see if it woke them up.

They must have been posing themselves laughing

The Archers may not be real life, but townies might do well to follow it for a decade or so before considering moving to the country to avoid some of the basic mistakes. It helped save the life of an inverted salt marsh sheep we came across. Her lamb was stood on the path baaing and wouldn't budge as we approached, despite us having our dog with us (on lead of course!) ... it really did seem to be begging for assistance and thanks to TA I was able to assure DH that yes, he should go and flip her over.

The first book DD chose to bring home (for parent to read with child) when she was in reception was 'The Life Cycle of the Snail'. Honestly, starting formal education with hermaphrodite sex makes everything thereafter a doddle.

You can borrow my horse if you want. They'll have a genuine complaint then when he gets into their garden to eat the grass and shits all over it. He might try getting into the house too for food. He's huge too so he'll terrify them.

I grew up in the New forest where a regular gripe of visitors was that the horses just pooed everywhere!

Save up all those leaflets you get through door and in Sunday papers for conservatory blinds and put a dozen through his letterbox

Just remembered another one.
We are local to an RAF base (about four miles away) - more than one person has moved to the area and complained about the jets doing night training. The base has only been here since WW1!

A stone barn was converted into a lovely house which was bought by an upcountry townie, in DM’s village.

The barn is on a narrow lane with a post box built into the barn wall.
Mr townie put boulders up to stop people parking next to post box to drop letters off, so you have to stop in the lane and block any traffic.
Then he started complaining about DM’s chickens (about 200m away), but it was when he complained about the noise of the milking parlour of the farm 1/4 mile up the road and that they start milking too early in the morning that people twigged he was a nimby twat.

This made me laugh. I love country living and this is part of it. People moan about tractors unless it snows and they come rescue them.
I genuinely had someone ring me to say they were stuck down the lane as it flooded and what could they do...errr get a tow. Reverse or leave your car mate. I can't help you , it's a flood.
People should learn about the green cross code etc more in school. Animals are money to farmers as well as living things. They are going to do what animals do and occasionally be taken to salughter if they are being breed for that purpose. I'm a veggie and even I don't mind that - the step kids were horrified though when I said that's where meat comes from!

Write out a sheep asbo and stick it to the fence

I do free pest control. It's quid pro quo for access to the land for pigeons.

Fox, rats, rabbits and crows are all part of the service.

No farmer wants to spend nights huddled in barns and wet fields any more than he has to, and I like delicious pigeon.

The people i bought my house from used to complain to the farmer all the time about his stock (cows and bullocks) getting out and into their garden. Not that they made ANY attempt to fence it of course! Yes, granted, the farmer should fence his stock in..... but inevitably animals escape (and old scottish farmers REALLLLLY object to spending money - especially on fences).

Note that the ex-owners didn't attempt to fence their dogs in either....

I don't worry about the groups of sheep that appear from time to time.

I've called the farmer twice - once at midnight when a huge group of bullocks appeared on the patio outside my window - and the other half of their group set off towards the main road - as i was worried they'd be run down! I then stayed up and helped him and his son round them up and fence them back in.

The only other time was when i got home to find 80 assorted sheep and well grown lambs tucking into the first bit of growth on my fields as his were totally bare..... and he had the cheek to complain that they all got dirty ploughing through the poached bit in my field gateway!

Overall we rub along - i ignore small groups of breakaway sheep (and the bullock that grazed alongside my horses for a week) and in return when 2 foot of snow blocked us in this winter he came and dug us out.