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AIBU to ask neighbours not to let their dog stray into our garden?

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1967buglet · 16/04/2022 02:01

Our neighbours have a very energetic pointer. It comes into our garden several times a week, barks and growls at us, comes into our drive when we have deliveries, barks and growls and bounds around us when we walk down the shared track with the neighbours. When the dog was a puppy, we were more tolerant of it as they have a couple small children (and nanny), and well, pandemic.

When I wrote a note to ask them to control their dog better, I was met by a complaint that our cat sometimes sits on their windowsill and that their cat and our cat fight. Er….

Our properties are very rural, and there are acres of fields that dog can run in, which it does, often without the owners knowing….they are on the hunt for the dog all the time. madly calling and whistling after it, and it just…runs away, or runs back and into our garden until we yell after it and chase it back to their house. We have a newly laid hedge that the dog can get into. Our neighbour complains if we do literally anything to the house, so a fence would probabyl not go down too well.

AIBU to complain to them about this, and secondly to get in touch with the dog warden about it if they don’t do anything?. They said they were eventually going to fence their property better, but we’ve been putting up with this for about 18 months. Thanks

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SucculentChalice · 21/04/2022 08:28

Your neighbours are crazy, irresponsible idiots to let a dog (and a pack of dogs when their friends' dogs visit) roam loose in the countryside. They have clearly got into the habit of roaming onto your property. What they should do is use sheep netting or similar to fence their entire property and make the fences high enough so that the dogs can't jump over. What you might want to consider is running a line of cheap electric fencing around the areas of your property you think they're getting in through and keeping your gate closed. You shouldn't have to but needs must. Unfortunately, this means they will probably roam elsewhere, possibly into the nearest field of sheep. Your neighbours sound incredibly selfish and arrogant to think that they can let their dogs roam free like this, even after people have complained.

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