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)

I am no more "sitting waiting for comments to appear" than you are, there you go again with the accusations. A person who has a very happy life doesn't need to make accusations about people they don't know or be rude to others. I'm not the one who is extremely bitter. You too, have the life you deserve.

Oh gosh I so sick of cats. Me neighbours cat kept getting in my old shed and pooping. All my camping equipment was covered in fur. They are apparently out door cars but always ended up in my shed. Even jumped on the boot of my car when unloading shopping. Complete nuisance. Then all last summer I was daily cleaning up their poop from my back yard. For those saying the bury it - they can’t if you don’t have a garden but a years . They destroyed all my strawberry plants. I kept finding them sat in my boxes of strawberries. They had pooped in the boxes. And I could also smell their pee in the soil in the strawberries as well. Several of us on our street were worn down by this cat. One of my neighbours was constantly power washing his and my yard and a couple of other yards. When you’ve got small children who play on the yard it’s just not clean. And the poop smelled badly some days.

when I first moved here a lot of neighbours had dogs that barked at anyone who walked past. Over the years the dogs have died off due to old age and it quietened down. Think I’d prefer the dogs to the cat poop.

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So if cat droppings are fertiliser for the garden can I just leave my dogs' poo in the park so long as it's not on a path? After all, it's just fertiliser for the park. If not, why not?

Her name might actually be Debbie? My next-door neighbour's name is Karen.

People get annoyed about the smallest things. Dogs, cats, kids. Everythings a nuisance! How about everyone just mind theirnown business and leave neighbors alone 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Wow I thought my neighbours were bad but you sound absolutely vile

My husband and I don't have pets but we do have a well tended garden full of vegetables. Cats poo in the well turned soil - absolutely disgusting. I am fine with people having pets as long as they poo in their own space and dogs are kept on a lead in public places. I have lost count of the times dogs jump up and the owner says 'she won't hurt you'. Maybe not, but if a human behaved like that it would be assault.

To state the obvious, that's the price that you pay for living in a "first" world country. None of you are behaving unreasonably. There are just far too many people in far too small a space.
Again to state the obvious, there is absolutely nothing that can be done by a cat owner about where the cat chooses to crap outside of a house and there is absolutely nothing that can prevent this fact annoying other people.
Of course there are cat discouragement chemicals that may discourage cats, but that about it.

Totally get it. Cats are aloof and so are their owners - fact. I judge people on my dog’s reaction to them / whether they have dogs and I’ve never been wrong.

I totally get it when you have had enough
and you just blow! You are human and we all do it at times, saying that every morning at or before 6am one of my neighbours lets its dog out in the garden for ages and it is constantly barking and jumping up at the door as it wants to go back in, always wakes me up and does my head in!

i say that to say this….. you all need to act your wage, if you can’t afford to live in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours you have to just deal with the shit that comes with it pardon the pun.

i could moan but it won’t change nothing it is what it is, I hope you feel better now, don’t feel guilty or like shit for speaking to them like that as it’s your feelings but moving forward you won’t be able to change it and the other neighbour needs to face the facts too xx

Tbh you sound like a spoilt pain in the arse.

based on your comments should I assume all dog owners are dim and smell bad?

Have to say, it sounds really nice in your neighbourhood......not.

You've all got annoying pets, live and let live ffs

You are definitely the problem neighbour.

It actually does make it ok though

I have two dogs; and neighbours on either side of me. They are lovely neighbours - well one more than the other. However, the minute my dogs bark outside, I'm onto them to come back inside and calm down. I never let this behaviour continue, but they are well exercised and supervised and that is my responsibility. I'd HATE to live next door to incessantly bark dogs. I don't know why you get the cats bothering you in your garden - they tend to stay away from gardens with dogs surely, there's loads round me and I never get cats visiting, or pooing.

Sigh.

I first posted on Wednesday morning. It is now Saturday evening(ish).

There has been no cat shit in my garden since I did the rounds on Wednesday. I have not seen the cats since Wednesday. Neighbour B has also not seen the cats. Neighbour's garden is also cat shit free.

Conclusion? Telling Debbie to keep her cats off my lawn worked. Cats can be kept indoors - their owners just don't want them to.

Ultimately, I don't really care if you think I'm 'awful' or 'vile.' I don't have to pick up someone else's pet's shit in my garden, I don't have to worry about my kids stepping in cat shit when they go in the garden, I don't have my garden smelling like cat shit.

I got what I wanted, and I am happy 😉

Let's hope you don't need them in an emergency.

I hate dogs barking.

I'd rather pick up a bit of cat shit (although they normally bury it) than listen to bleedin' dogs barking.

Your dogs are allowed in the garden ffs
and she sounds completely selfish and unaware of herself, marching over to you and complaining.
I think you were right to tell her where to go