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)

Seem to work yeah. It’s like a high pitch noise that’s supposed to deter them and it detects motion so it’s not constantly on so the batteries last.

@FinnalyCracked Don’t get one, they’re awful! For children and anyone with sensitive hearing you can hear them screeching away constantly.

They are a humane deterrent and they work. We did have one like you described but then we bought one you can turn the frequency down on etc.. they aren’t on constantly either as they detect motion so they aren’t ‘awful’, they’re useful for stopping cats shitting in your garden.

@GraySILK I hate cat shit in the garden as much as the next person. But I can assure you, if you have sensitive hearing it is awful to live next to.

I guess it depends where it’s located. Ours only went off when someone went within a couple of meters of it and there would be no need for anyone to go that close to it (other than a cat) so it never bothered the neighbour or anyone. I can see it would be annoying if it was a constant noise

So glad you're not my neighbour,scary much? I created cat toilet areas in my garden and,as a result,my cats used my garden for the loo,only going next door a sniff (i watched so know this to be correct),but dogs, whole different story. We have neighbours with dogs.Bark,bark,bark whole time they're in the garden,I mean why put them in the garden when you go out if not to annoy neighbours? If you don't want your dogs in the house,perhaps you consider whether dogs are the right pet for you,they are not there just to annoy neighbours! Solution: suggest to cat neighbour they make cat toilet areas as I have,it works.2.get your dogs trained to shut up.3.stop swearing so much it makes you sound aggressive.

It’s her garden if she wants to let her dogs out so be it, dog chases cat, well I never, who’s have thought.

I'm with you here on this one op, a short amount of time for dogs to play and bark is acceptable! But cat poo is potentially harmful (toxoplasmosis!)!! You have tried to be a good neighbour, she hasn't! She's rude and entitled! Cars , lots of them and their fumes do lower the tone and is harmful! She's a chav and should move to where she belongs!!!

Go team dogs. I have neither cat nor dog, but I think cat shit in a garden frequently use by grand kids is worse that 5 mins of dog barking.