AIBU to think that if you hate animals you shouldn't move to the countryside?

[shiklah]

I live in a very rural community which has become popular with commuters in the last 5 years. Over the last 18 months the following complaints have featured heavily on the local WhatsApp and Facebook groups:

Cows blocking the road for 10 mins (they do this twice a day and have for hundred of years as they go in for milking)
Escapee sheep roaming the verges and traffic islands
Cockerels crowing
Church Bells

Our neighbours moved in Jan 2016 and have built a conservatory overlooking our field. They have complained:

A ram was tupping ewes in the field
Many Sheep gave birth in the field
A sheep had a prolapsed and was attended by the vet in the field (the vet delivered 2 healthy lambs, revived them and saved the ewe, it was awesome and brilliant and they are all healthy and happy but apparently it spoiled mothers day breakfast)
A fox killed a rabbit and ate it in our field
A ferral cat lives in the hedge at the side of our field
A sheep pooed when Mr Neighbour was eating breakfast

Th least one was reported to me at 7pm this eve when I was getting out of my car at the end of a 60 hour working week. He DROVE to my house to tell me a sheep pooed in his view whilst he was eating breakfast in his conservatory that he built, overlooking my field, that has been their since before my house was built, in 1762. I literally don't know know what to say to these idiots any more. AIBU to simply laugh in their faces and move on with my day

I have had wine and am feeling frazzled

*there

FFS!!

Are you the hoodlum animal police op?!

Can you train the sheep to aim their poo at them? Then at least they have a legitimate complaint.

Have more wine, feel less frazzled and tell them to for form

What's tupping?

Yep. Laugh at the silly twats every time

Your patience up until now deserves a medal! What is wrong with people 🤷‍♀️

Yup. The same people will complain about neighbour noise while living in London.

I am the Hoodlum Animal Police. Busted.

Oh and they're so unreasonable it hurts.

I would probably put a massive sign up along the lines of 'fuck off back to the city you miserable twat' but then I'm petty like that

Totally agree. It's like moving opposite a school and complaining about children! Countryside = animals. And btw, unless someone is Vegan and has never consumed any animal products then they should be grateful to farmers for producing their food!

Tupping is shagging

Tupping if fucking. Hth

Not sure what happened there, but in essence, they should fuck off...

All of those complaints are funny but this one

A sheep pooed when Mr Neighbour was eating breakfast

had me guffawing.

I think you should tell him that the sheep have complained that he watches them while they're having a crap and that the ram wants you to call the police because Mr N is a peeping tom.

Tipping =shagging

😂🤣😂🤣 🐏🐑🐏🐑

This can't be real, surely?

shiklah ah well, at least you know where to position the dung heap now

I grew up in a small rural village which also happened to have a direct train to that London.
In the 80s people discovered this and moved in.
I think that the local paper used to print the letters for the comedy value. Common themes were ‘why does the farmer allow his cows to foul on the road?’ ‘The farm next door smells’ and ‘we were snowed in for a week, where is the gritter lorry?’

They own 3 minis
mums is red
dads is blue
daughters is white

FFS!!!

They sound like great entertainment. They are so far beyond ridiculous surely you have to laugh at them!

At least your dogs must be extraordinarily well behaved, it seems no one’s complained about them yet.

Lol that's crazy? How can you complain about those things in the countryside. I always leave extra time for travelling due to tractors, horses, sheep, donkeys, pigs in the road etc.
It's a part of country life... that and ticks when you walk in the fields!

For God's sake, some people! We live right next to a field of sheep - there must be about a metre between our windows down the side of the house and the fence, and we regularly get woken by the lambs playing and thundering past (surprisingly loud!!) But we think it's hilarious and cute and we love it! Plus we always think how lucky we are to have that right there - the kids love it and get so excited in the spring when the lambs start to appear.