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

Yep!

upstart, something like this?

In fact he was still going on about it a few weeks later, and this article says he's from Brighton and actually used to own a fish and chip shop. www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8783119/Ilfracombe-I-still-think-its-a-dump-says-tourist-put-off-by-fish.html

I'm crying with laughter at this thread 😂

It reminded me of a news story from a few years ago when this man went on holiday to Ilfracombe and complained about the harbour smelling of fish, even though it was actually a working harbour. He claimed that his children were distressed by seeing crates full of dead fish and crabs. www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/8743065/Tourist-complains-about-sight-of-fish-in-harbour.html

Whose Garden?! ….MY Garden!!

This was Walter our neighbours pet sheep when we first moved in. She used to jump the wall out of their garden in the morning, raid the neighbouring gardens throughout the day and then be back home for teatime. Unfortunately after she had been barricaded out of most the nearby gardens she presumably ate something toxic and died. Neighbours have just got a new pet lamb Ginny, she is super cute and I met her properly for the first time this week when she was out for a dog (and lamb) walk.

We also had "Braveheart" living on the verge for a while, he had put up a fight and escaped as they were marking him with blue paint, and had a blue cross painted across his face

We have friends in N Devon who related this story:
A couple who moved into the area, near the coast, wrote to the local paper to complain about the noise of the local Air-Sea rescue helicopters making practice runs at night.

There was such outrage from the locals, and the couple received so much vitriol, both in person and in letters to the paper, that they very soon sold up and left.

shiklah One word - Scarecrow.
Do your worst.

OP originally I was going to suggest you announce your "Crazy Comment of the month award" with background music of Mike Doughty "I hear the bells".

now I'm thinking "size of a cow" would be a better theme song

You need one of these...

That’s dreadful Quiettiger. Can you come back and let us know how you get on?

A common one is when people get close to a cow or heifer and are shocked how big they are, they tend to say 'they never look that big in the field' well no, that's because they're far away!

Father Ted all over again

Sorry, it's a bit of a soap box for me - we've had several dog attacks on our sheep this year Same here Quiettiger

Bluebug45 - yes, we did. This is the new one for our footpaths, that literally arrived on Friday because some fuckwit decided it would be funny to remove the last ones by trashing them.

It's surprising how many fucking arseholes people try to argue with DH about what "dogs under control" means when they're on the footpath in a field of stock (It means put it on a fucking lead). They try to argue that our working collies should be on a lead like their dogs - even when our dog(s) are sat on the back of the quad bike watching DH get his knickers off at idiots.

Sorry, it's a bit of a soap box for me - we've had several dog attacks on our sheep this year, one close neighbour has lost 30% of his flock to dog damage and another friend had her alpaca savaged and killed by out of control dogs. It's a real problem because of where we are (on the very outskirts of a big city).

When we moved to the countryside (DSF was a herdsman) we had all sorts of shennanigans!:

Woke up one morning to the dog going crazy, racing up and down the hallway like a loon, only to open the front door to a herd of cows in the driveway!!

Pheasants regularly hiding out in our garden.
Skinned rats, mice and baby bunnies being gifted to us by cats.
Frogs (also skinned)
Toads
Moths the size of fucking bats
Bats the size of fucking birds of prey
Spiders as big as your fist
Cows regularly blocking roads
Cows jumping on top of hedges
Cows escaping and going on adventures
Foxes leering at chickens with hungry eyes
Dog would regularly escape (usually with a pair of my Mothers underwear dragged down the lane and sat waiting to greet us )

Anyone who moves to the countryside and doesn't expect to have the wildlife regularly show up at the most unexpected and awkward of times, is in for a shock!

I'd build a muck heap at the bottom of his garden

We have a few of those in our village. The best one wanted to know when the cows would be moving from the cow field so that she could walk her dog! Cows in a cow field? How very dare they!

• cowshed (not clashed)!

Love this thread! We're rural. Our townie neighbours bought a converted barn beside the clashed, and constantly complain about the noise/smell of the cows . Likewise about the unsightly dungheap, noise during harvest, slurry, ungritted roads and the tractor blocking their view. They're v pissed off too that the farm track isn't going to be tarmacced. First thing they did when they moved in was gravel/pave their whole garden. I don't get why they moved to the country, it brings them no pleasure. I am also tempted to get chickens/donkeys.

You should get some geese and a donkey for extra noise 😂

@Quiettiger didn't you have signs with something like loose dogs that worry livestock will be shot?

I always remember this after a couple of us walked a friend's collie that escaped and being told off by the farmer's son in the group.