To be getting really fed up with my neighbiour now

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grrr, we have 2 cats, chickens and 2 dc, she tries to steal the cats, feeds them, brushs them etc, we have to go round every evening att he same time to get the cat back, and yes I know cats choose where they want to live but if you feed them they will stay there.
She is always walking down my garden and openeing the chicken run, filing the chooks food and water up and generally messing about with them, giving them treats etc. I know she is being nice but I like to have my own garden as my own space.
Lsast year she called the rspca on us because the broody hen we borrowed to hatch some eggs wasn't moving much, even though she had food and water in reach etc, the rspca told her to co co basically.
We are getting a puppy, I am so excited and it something that we have thought very long and hard about. I have just had a mother style lecture off her in the garden about being mad and my poor cats and chickens and what on earth do I think I am doing and what about when her visitors go through my garden etc.
I wish she would just f off sometimes, I am in most of the day so have to be nice, she treats my dc with absolute disdain.
I love my house and one of the main reasons is because of my lovely garden which I wish she would just stay out of. grrr

access is house end, that actually sounds like a really nice idea. my dads best mate owns the local fence company so could pretty much get anything i wanted if I could come up with an idea that will look good.

I would tell her the cats have an infectious skin condition so best not to touch

sorted then.

In the meantime can your chooks have an attack of birdflu?

MOG she has somehow cracked the combination on the padlock to the chook run, changed their water and washed the outside of the water holder dh is spitting feathers now. have changed the combination, going to have to confront her, I hate confrontation but this is mad, she must have waited till we had gone out yesterday aft5ernoon.

Oh lord, that is disturbing.

Beg, borrow or steal the money for a fence/trellis; the new dog is the perfect excuse.

Let us know what happens.

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What kind of puppy are you getting? Perhaps something very large and bouncy, trained specifically to chase old ladies might be a solution?

It sounds like she thinks of it more as a shared garden than her just having access over a small part of it. Fence her out, or just put her straight - interfereing with your property and your animals is NOT acceptable.

we got the puppy, she is a tiny little fussy thing unfortunatly. dh says to see if the padlock works and if not he will say something. I am such a wuss.

Who would do that to someone else's pets!?! Cracking a combination lock which they've obviously put on there to keep you out in the process!!

Did they need new water and the outside of the water holder cleaning?

Old lady sounds like a loon!

I never clean the outside of the water thing, thats how I know, it doesn't matter it is thre outside. also dh put it back ona specific number so he could see if it had been moved. tis very odd.

funniest thing is she was telling me when we first moved in how th old neighbours were always sat ion the back step and she felt she had no privavcy.

You've let her get away with this for far too long, she's really overstepping the mark and will just get worse unless you say something. How old is she? I'd wonder if she's perhaps starting with dementia and is fixating on your animals as something to obsess over. Either way you need to have a talk to her. It doesn't have to be confrontational, just ask her why she feels the need to do this and point out to her that the reason you have animals is so that you can enjoy taking care of them. You never asked for her assistance and frankly don't need or want it. Also change the padlock for one with a key instead of a combination, she won't get in then.

I would say she is in her fifties, lives on her own, does have family but they don't see her very often.
I think she honestly thnks I don't look after my animals properly, tis none of her business as long as they are not neglected. grr.

FENCE FENCE FENCE FENCE

Electric fence.

pmsl at electricx fence, might help me with the dc as well

Electric fence, barbed wire and a rotty, staff and pitball

You lot are barking up the wrong tree. This woman can be used to your advantage. Does she drive? Get her to do the school run. Night feeds? Does she bake? What is she like with a hoover or vax?

oooh yes sloany has nailed it!If she's going to be an interfering old baggage then use it for all its worth. You could do a rota and give her a load of jobs to do - therefore freeing you up for more Mumsnet and satifying her need to stick her beak in. If she's just trying to help she should be grateful her job is now cleaning up the chicken shit!

Yanbu.
I would be furious if someone was doing all of that. I cannot get over her planting your plants and cracking the combination of your lock. Isn't this illegal? Can you report to the police that "someone" is trespassing, and suggest they interview the neighbor in case she saw something?
I think a fence is your only option really.
That and reporting her strange behavior to the police, to hopefully embarrass her into minding her own business. I know the police are busy, but this is ridiculous!

ah ha, got it, going to phone my mum when she is in the garden and say someone has been messing about with the chickens again and I am going to phone the police if it happens again.

Buy her a kitten

I agree with daftapeth, although maybe you should get her a cat for herself from a rescue centre.