Finally lost it with neighbours

[FinnalyCracked]

There’s four houses on the close - and none for miles (converted country barns - hence the being so close together and yet nothing for miles).

Neighbour A has three cats and all are outdoor cats. Me and Neighbour B have dogs. Neighbour C is irrelevant to this pet debacle.

Neighbours A’s cats, since they moved in, have constantly shit in everyone’s garden. Don’t come at me and tell me it’s not them as the closest village is six miles and no one else has sodding cats!! They sit on the garage and hiss at anyone who goes by and are, quite frankly, obnoxious.

I’ve bitten my tongue but neighbour Cs and B have not. Neighbour B has taken much delight in having their dogs chase the cats off. Neighbour C has invested in barbed wire and other such things to keep the cats out

Yesterday, neighbour A knocked on my door and asked me to call my dogs in as they were ‘destroying her enjoyment of her garden.’ I was very polite - but very firm - and told her to fuck off (not quite that frank, but you get the idea). I’d just finished work, so the dogs had been inside with me so they’d been out about five minutes when she appeared. She launched into a a bit of a diatribe about how B and I have been ruining her summers for years now with our dogs barking and running around.

I snapped. Said her cats constantly shit in my garden and I had to pick it up as I had small children and that her fucking hot tub was obnoxiously loud, so was their music and their shitheaps of cars (her partner always has a rotation of them that he tinkers with) all over the driveway lowered the tone and created exhaust fumes, and that if I ever saw her cats in my garden again I’d be taking a leaf out of neighbour Bs book and setting my dogs on them. Then I told her not to come onto my property again and slammed the door in her face.

It’s a first world problem, I know. But I am just so fucking sick of biting my tongue and being a good neighbour )including taking her fucking parcels) and she has the bloody gall to tell me my dogs can’t be in the garden, as their playing ‘ruins her enjoyment.’

WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING ENJOYMENT, DEBBIE?!?!

That’s it. That’s all I wanted (just a place to rant)

How do you “set” a dog on anything unless it’s a highly trained police/ army dog?

If it naturally chases a cat when it’s in its own garden isn’t that just natural behavior? I don’t see anything wrong with this - cat will learn to go elsewhere unless it wants chased.

How so? They smell nice and repel vermin, really not do disgusting!

A German shepherd is quite chavy. A bit retro 1980s chavvy, but chavvy none the less.

Not the sort of dog I'd expect someone to have who objects to do-up cars on the drive lowering the tone. I'd expect the person with do-up cars on drives to have the German Shepherd tbh.

Yup. I agree !! Sounds like 6 of one and half a dozen of the other! In fact OP does sound the worst, for not having a calm adult discussion, but ranting, and slamming the door in the neighbour's face!

Fox shit is the absolute worst, stinks. Far worse than cat shit.

Love the idea of cats sitting on the garage and hissing at you. You must have been terrified.

We dint have a right over the world as humans. Cats and dogs have as much right on the earth and tbh both of you need to chill

Why would you do that? It's fertiliser.

Obviously not the point of the post (and I'm 100% with you btw), but please would you post a picture of your dogs? I LOVE GSDs. Sadly can't have dogs at the moment, but they're priority number one when we move.

You can buy it from B&Q now...well, lion poo pellets at least. Seems to keep (annoying bastard) cats off my raised beds.

My thoughts exactly! I can't abide barking dogs.

You are both in the wrong but you are also wrong for losing your temper. You have to live next to each other so should try harder to compromise.

It's the type of fence or the topper you put on top it that prevents escape, not the height.

I don’t have pets, but one neighbour has a yappy dog and the other a cat.

everyday I’d take the cat in my garden with a possible poop than the yappy dog that sends me crazy.

I suppose it might depend on the type? There's barbed wire on many of the farms round here - not razor wire.

No, it doesn't mean they have to change their behaviour. But any form of decent human being would do what they could to prevent a health risk and a nuisance to their neighbours that they are causing by owning a cat.

Might I politely ask that you go away with the ‘quoting an OP’ shit.

I'd be very surprised if the cats are still using a garden where they have been chased by dogs. Their owner might be able to encourage them to use her garden by creating the kind of space that says 'toilet' to them. Have you asked her to do this? Have you considered the poo might be from other animals?
Dogs barking can be very loud and stressful so it would be good if you could all find ways to compromise.

Bloody love triggered cat obsessives 🤭

‘Lower the tone?’ 🙄

They're filthy creatures and they stink, as do the homes of their owners.

I asked my neighbour to do that when his cats were constantly shitting in our garden and we had young dc.

His answer? You can't control cats so no point in trying.

He could at least have tried it. Now that we have dogs, I have no problem with them chasing his cats out of the garden.

You can't control cats but you can set things up so they are more likely to use their own garden. They like a nice patch of well-turned soil; also things like bark which turn over nicely.
Your dogs have the right to be in their own garden and if they chase visiting cats that is fair enough (so long as they don't injure them). Cats normally avoid gardens where this has happened, so hopefully you don't have the problem any more.

The police? What in the law and order do you think the police will do. They don't even turn up to theft of cars

bloody police for threatening a dog on your cats 😂😂😂😂😂

These barn conversion communes so often end with neighbour fall outs.