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

She sounds a bit lonely and at a loose end imo although it is an infuriating situation to be in.
Would she consider keeping her own chicken or is there an animal rescue place nearby that need volunteers?

I must admit for some reason this morning I have come to the conclusions that iabu, I am quite sensitive about the puppy because a lot of people keep saying ohh your mad etc, the puppy is to keep me company because I hate to be on my own, I have been incounselling and the councellor thought the puppy was the best idea evfer for my probolems. basically, youngest dd started nursery, oldest dd at school, been working for the last eyar and loved it and now being made redundant, finishing at the end of may and going back to being a sahm as struggling to find anything for hours, blah blah blah.
Anyway short story long, I get depression when I spend too much timre on my own and bored, puppy is to solve these problems, as well as being a family pet etc. Has obviously been thought about for months and discussed to ridiculous levels, and I think I get upset when people critise as I don't really want to have to explain all that to them.
So I shall smile, be n8ice and keep changing the combination on the padlock.

Be careful then. You might find yourself inviting Mrs Next-door indoors for company. Before you know it, she'll be feeding your kids and putting the hoover round.

We've got horrible neighbours, I found it even harder because like you I am a sahm so it's my home/workplace. The main areas of dispute are due to the lack of trellis and a defined fence in one area. Our neighbours confuse the 'right to roam ' legislation with our unfenced area of garden at the top of the drive.

I'm going to nag my husband to improve our fences, use the puppy to define/improve your fences and trellis, I wish I'd spent more money on it several years ago, because the problems have n't moved away.

can you do a low level trellis, with clematis & runner beans growing up it, or let it go higher & do an arch into the rest of your garden? then her access would be clearly marked - you could even put a locked gate going into the garden.

with trellis & flowers, you would still get a partial view of the garden & if you were in the garden (with gate locked) would also be partially blocked off from her.

aim for low enough to tempt her into climbing over, but high enough that she would get stuck with one leg each side of the trellis (and perhaps a gently warming electrical current running through it)