To think if you don't like my dogs barking at you get the hell off my drive

[Qantaqa]

I'll start this by saying I am tired and miserable so am in no mood to be reasonable today AT ALL.

I have many dogs. Large dogs. There are dog flaps so they can run in and out as they wish onto the property. I am rural and one of the purposes of the dogs is to alert me to people around, so I aren't bothered by them barking if someone comes to the gate.

The gateway to my drive is set back about 15ft so that I can park the car without having to open the gates and drive in. Its clearly my driveway and separate from the road.

There is this one cyclist who every single time after cycling up the hill stops and pulls into the drive and has a rest. Now he could stop on the other side of the road where there is a public track, or he could cycle for like another 30ft and stop at the entrance to the forest but no he chills in the drive. Every. Single. Time.

The dogs bark at him. He shouts at them to be quite. They obviously ignore him. I used to shout them back in but the last few weeks I haven't bothered because well I'm grumpy.

Today my mum has arrived to visit and the cyclist is yet again in the drive. He's had a bit of a go at her. She's come in mithering at me so I've gone out and told him very rudely that if he doesn't like them barking at him to stop standing on the fucking drive. It got into a bit of a heated discussion before I stormed off. He's going to report me apparently as they are intimidating and its illegal to have a camera and no signs and blah blah blah.

So whilst I might BU to have gone out and created more drama instead of ignoring him AIBU to think if you don't want to be barked at get the fuck off my land?

I love dogs. I was terrified of them and cats as a child.
Stupid man.

Brilliant thread!!! 🤣 love the doggies 🐕 ..and dickhorse! 😂

Now you have to put up a sign next to the dogs saying beware of the swans!

@Qantaqa brilliant thread OP. You tell a story well. I think you should write a book about your rural escapades.

I think OP needs a sign painted like the statue depicting the Musicians of Bremen, but all ten dogs should be piled on top of Dickhorse, followed by the swans. The sign should say “Beware the Dickhorse and Swans. The dogs are their apprentices.”

You are the entitled one. You don’t own the world. Little Englander

Would like a grown up to help you learn to read?

Smile sympathetically and say 'Hill got the better of you again? Does me in too, by the time I get to (place at least 10 minutes further up the road) I'm knackered! But you'll soon get fitter!'

Then walk off. Or jog off up the hill with a wave depending on how emasculated you want him to feel.

That is brilliant! 💯
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