To don my camouflage gear,grab a flask,dh's air rifle

[Littlefiendsusan]

and sit in my treehouse leisurely picking off my neighbours bastarding cockerels.
At 4:45 am dd (7 months) gets woken.
Just because we chose to live rural does not mean we need less sleep than town folk grrrrrrrr
(Lack of bastarding sleep emoticon)

mansview dh is the slow tractor on our lane occasionally,so don't mind when I come across one myself.
The cows over the road and the horses in the field next to our garden are all super.
It's just cockerels at quarter to fucking five in the morning.
It was fine before dd,I could wear earplugs.

get a grip how very original.

I live in an estate and somebody has a cow. Nobody knows which house it is but we hear it mooing randomly of a morning!

Bunraku - it must be pretty obvious surely - not easy to hide a cow.

The sheep never, ever shut up, but I don't even hear them any more, TBH. Baby birds are bloody noisy, but I can roll over and go smugly back to sleep. Cockerels are a different story though.

I lived next door to one once.

It was in South East London. Not the ruralist of places.

Shoot the feathery feckers. Dammit I'll come and help.

[long memory emoticon]

What does living in a rural location have to do with? In the centre of Rochdale there are a communal flock of hens being kept just off the A road. They potter around on a patch of grass on a busy corner all day one day someone will end up with a flat chicken for tea...
I live rurally so don't hear the sounds or smell the smells anymore.
Anyway, YANBU to want to, Cockerels are a PITA but your LO should get used to it in time.

I'm often woken by cats fighting, so I have to get up to shut them up as one of the buggers is mine. Sometimes it's foxes that wake me, and often it's the shitting blackbirds (yes they sound pretty but they are LOUD).

Today bought a new nadir. 3am, big fighty noise, lots of grunting and growling. Thought it was my cat, again, and that I'd better stop him before he woke all the neighbours. So up I got, only to find 2 fighting... hedgehogs. Who knew they were that loud?

NB yes they were fighting. Although randy hedgehogs are also surprisingly noisy.

you're right - we do have more right to exist on this planet than the likes of cats and birds...

kill them all...

I hear lions roaring al night sometimes. Gets right on my tits.

Lions roaring? Where do you live QOD the Savannah?
Wee have blackbirds roosting in the eves atm, I think they are either wearing clogs or doing diy, they are bloody noisy!

Nah, near a zoo! Bloody lions and tigers do get on my tits.

Every now and then, something will set off the ENTIRE zoo, the only thing I don't hear anymore, as they move their enclosure, is the wolves. THAT was feckin scary in the middle of the night ....

We've only had escaped wild dogs (all shot dead :( ) and small wildcats. . . I do sometimes dream (obviously set off by the roaring) that there's a Lion marching down my road .....

Doesn't matter where you live

Cockerels are bastards
Owls are worse

One used to sit on my window and twit de fucking woo. Then when I blearily asked it to fuck off, would just revolve and stare at me. And NOTHING stares like an owl.

Fucking magpies. We have loads of them here and they are LOUD!

YANBU!! I live in East London-as far from rural as you can get, but also get woken up by the chickens being kept by the house backing on to our flat.

Why keep them when you live in a terraced house?????

I remember when we lived right up North in Russia and we heard polar bears and every child did bear drill at school just in case!

Now, I'd be picking off drug dealers and gangs and the neighbour's bloody stupid foxes! She encouraged them into the garden apparently and you could hear them mating one time, and now you ear random barking and occasionally you hear squawking (and silence)).

"Waking up the animals is cockerel's job to do, but this morning on the farm they are woken by a moo!

So cockerel asks sheep, was it you? No bleats sheep I say bahhhh not moo (sheep noise effect)

Next cockerel asks horse, was it you? Noooo says horse, I say neigh not moo (horse noise effect)

Then cockerel asks pig, was it you?
No says pig, I say oink not moo (pig noise effect)

Out at the barn, cockerel hears a moo. He finds cow inside, so it was you! Yes, goat kicked a bucket and I got soaked through. I woke up with a jump and I went moooo! (Cow sound effect).

Early next morning cockerel has his job to do, waking up the animals with a COCK-A-DOODLE DOO!"

So the moral of the story is cockerel can fuck off cos he's a noisy bugger

I hate the owl that lives in the trees at the back of my house! With a passion.

Obvious cow is not obvious to this street as its lurking on the street opposite and can't see into the gardens from here if you see what I mean. Not sure if the people over there can see the cow or if it's in someone's garage but I enjoy the mooing

qod When the Wind is blowing in the right direction we can hear Lions from nearbyish Zoo too. They also had a Pack of Wild dogs escape a Few years back. I Remember the choppers flying about Looking for them.
Wonder if it's the Same place?

YABU. Rural life = farm animals and birds. Fact of life, accept it (and that their species were there first) or move.

treas, I know someone who moved into an edge of village area and then complained about the cows mooing. I'd like to repeat what the farmer said to her but fear it might make you all blush.

Cockadoodledoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

It's just cockerels at quarter to fucking five in the morning

Cheer up it's only 50 days to the solstice . Then it will start getting later again.

It's gotta be, I'd "gamble" on it being the same lol

Welcome to the countryside - some of us live and work here. If you don't like what goes on in the countryside (like farming) then go back and live in town and get woken by sirens / drunk people at 4am.

Feeling grumpy man?