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)

Im struggling to find how many humans are killed by cats. If you want stats … last year 7 people died through dog attacks in the uk. I know people will say … « my dog would never do that », and I appreciate dogs come in different breeds and sizes. However, cats do not kill people (probs because they’re too small!) neither do they maim small children. This thread is not about dog v cat, it’s about human behaviour and people thinking they have a right to own an animal but not being able to control the animal or their own behaviour. Weaponising dogs against a cat does not sound like neighbourly behaviour to me and I’m so glad I don’t live next door to OP.

The law is an ass when it comes to allowing cats to run freely leaving a disgusting mess as well as smell.My daughter had this problem while her 3 very young children would step in it and trail through the house.She sorted the problem by collecting cat poo and dumping it outside cat owners door.

Team dog (as long as they don’t bark, mine don’t :)

@DoddlesMcDoddle 🤣🤣🤣 you've proven your argument is moot. You just repeated exactly what I said to you 🤡 I wish you love and light and a day filled with cat 💩 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Must be alone in being completely on your side OP. Hate cats

Calm down dear, you’ll give yourself an aneurysm.

This thread has everything, it's absolutely cat batshit 😹

Oh no sorry not cats! Wildlife, humans kill more wildlife 😂 laughing at the misunderstanding..

Or maybe they feel strongly about it. Your list shows that you also have time to Google

There's arguments both sides but you know, pitting a dog against a cat in a human row just tells you everything you need to know.

The smell will also stress her op’s dogs no doubt!
man’s actually why should she buy products? Her dogs are the perfect deterrent

Op isn’t setting her dogs on the cats literally… it’s just a manor of speech…
my dog would chase a cat off his property, wouldn’t hurt one though.
@FinnalyCracked I wouldn’t have kept my dogs in - you’ve been very patient!
My garden is for mine and my dogs enjoyment… thankfully I have nice neighbours & their cats don’t come in my garden, they’ll walk along the fence or sit on the shed roof but that’s all

I don't think the dogs barking for 5 minutes is a problem but cats shitting everywhere is , also tinkering with cars on the front drive is a definite no no just brings the tone of the neighbours down and a hot tub well I will say no more

OP, you and the other dog owner are the problem here. Cats need to go outside & they need to shit and on that note, you can't train a cat not to shit in a particular garden. You live in the countryside by the sounds of it, so you're surrounded by animal shit anyway.

I hope your other dog owning neighbour is aware of, and prepared for, the consequences if one of their dogs catches a cat & harms it...

How do you know?

Why are you getting so personal? Irrational? Accusations? What do you mean?! There's nothing accusatory there. Your tone is rude & unkind.

You can contol whether you design your garden in a way that ensures your cat can't get out or at the very least provide an attractive pooing area. It's called responsible pet ownership, something must cat owners don't seem to understand.

Have you read their posts to me? They've accused me of things I haven't done, mocked me with emoticons and lied about me. And you are saying I am getting personal by defending myself?

You've got the wrong person!

I can’t believe the amount of threads we’ve put up with about entitled dog owners when the real villains are cat enthusiasts.

I think your post is rude yes I've read some of the responses but no need for insults

This is true but it's actually a human problem. We buy our animals meat products instead of vegetarian (available & much less harmful for the environment), we purchase breeds that are needing ongoing treatment such as brachycephalic types that cost the carbon footprint due to veterinary care. We buy puppies when rescues are full.

It's a human problem every time.
Cat's by the way can't survive on vegetarian diets, they have to have meat but environmentally red meat is the worst for the environmental crisis so we should be feeding them fish or chicken that doesn't cost so much carbon emissions.

And if we continue demanding unhealthy brachycephalic breeds then not only do these animals have painful shortened lives but they're also costing the environment & their owner stress & financial issues.

Sorry went off on a tangent there!

So them calling me names and using a clown emoticon is not 'rude' or 'insults'.

Ok then....

@Nextdoor55 totally agree with you, I haven’t threatened anyone but @DoddlesMcDoddle has been extremely argumentative on every comment. Some people don't like the fact we refuse to conform to their ideals. Have a fab day 😀

Lying about me saying I hate dogs when I don't and have never even insinuated any such thing, and arguing with me tells us exactly what type of unhappy person you are.

@DoddlesMcDoddle the fact you obviously sit waiting for comments to appear tells us all we need to know about you. I live a very happy life, surrounded by my loving family and my good friends. Not that it has anything to do with you. You have made it quite apparent you prefer cats to dogs. Tbh I'm finding you extremely bitter and boring now 😴 You can reply all you want but I'm not being drawn into your drama. Have the life you deserve 😘