First of all hi, first time posting here😁 second of all, I am terrible at getting to the point so bear with 😂 third of all, hope everyone is staying safe and well ❤️
So I finished uni last year and am back living at home with my mum and around the same time as me coming home, we got a new neighbour. About a month in we realised he had a partner and they had a new baby, my mum went to introduce herself and apologise for any noise as she has an 8 year old, and he just basically grunted and then shut the door on her... He also never says hello to any of us who live around here, so he is either rude and ignorant, or is riddled with social anxiety. I'm going to go with the former.
Both of our houses have the bedrooms downstairs and the kitchen/lounge upstairs, and we noticed that they had a pitbull/staffy type dog being kept in a cage in the bedroom that, no word of a lie, was not big enough for a large German shephard, let alone a smaller dog. We also have never seen them take the dog out for walks or even out to the communal courtyard that we and all the other neighbours in our area share... They live in squalor and still don't even have curtains up despite living there for nearly a year now, instead having towels and grubby rugs and blankets just hung up at all the windows. They also blocked the drain/sewage system that is shared between all the houses along our road because they were flushing nappies and baby wipes, and everyone who lives here had to pay towards having it sorted out... Right before Christmas🙄 And they never even apologised... We constantly hear him shouting and mocking his crying baby. We constantly hear him slamming doors, my mum's room is upstairs and she hears him slamming doors up until 3am most mornings. We thought they maybe didn't have their dog anymore until last night when we heard it barking incessantly, and because they obviously love their dog so much (sarcasm...), they decided to get a new kitten that is constantly sat on the downstairs windowsill mewing trying to get back in the house and is scared of anyone that goes near it. My mum is one of those who would rather mind we mind our own business and doesn't want to cause any issues as this guy does seem like he could get aggressive and the way our houses are set up, we are the only ones who his house is attached to so it would be obvious it was us who reported him, but between the mocking his crying baby and the keeping the dog in a cage and ignoring the kitten just wanting to get in from the rain, I am close to doing it.
I think the point of no return for me was last Thursday, we were out clapping and cheering for the NHS, as we do every week and a few of our other neighbours do too (we live opposite a surgery and A&E centre so the atmosphere is always lovely❤️) and the nightmare neighbour comes out about a minute in and shouts in the loudest, most obnoxious and belligerent way possible "SHUT THE FCK UP YOU FCKNG BST*RDS", if that doesn't tell you what kind of lovely, thoughtful man he is I don't know what will!
So my question is: am I being unreasonable to even want to report him? I don't know how I'd go about it yet, but between the animal situation, the baby situation, the shouting, aggression and the constant door banging, we are losing the will to live. Any advice?