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

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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

Shockers, I did the same with the RSPCA.

They made me clap near the horses to see if it woke them up.

They must have been posing themselves laughing

If you can borrow a heavy horse stallion... some stallions like to let it all hang out, then slap their danglies against their bellies. I can confirm that a Shire doing this creates an impressive spectacle - and a noise that tends to echo

That'd put them off their scones. 😈

Spudlet, both of my geldings do that! A guy once had a go at me when my horse 'went' outside his house. What sort of idiot buys a house on a bridle path if they don't like horses?!

We have a small campsite on our farm. Most people are fab, but we have had complaints that we left our Highland cattle out in the rain instead of putting them in a stable (coats so thick that backs need to be clipped if kept indoors). I explained that they were bred to withstand winter in the Scottish highlands, but the camper pointed out that they didn't live there now!

One complained that the electric fence that my friend and I erected would cause his pacemaker to malfunction. He still refused to believe that he would be perfectly safe, even when my friend spoke with him - my friend is a Cardiac Physiologist.

Someone complained about the harvest noise at 7pm on a Saturday evening - did I realise that he was trying to camp over there? I suggested that next time he avoided visiting sites in august with 'farm' in the address.

A few people have complained that my dog is allowed to run free while theirs has to be on a lead. I explain that my dog fully acknowledges that he will be shot if he chases cows/sheep/goats/chickens/horses, and that their dog can be off lead if it agrees to the same.

And we have had many, many reports of dead animals over the years - mostly my old horse who used to sunbathe in the lean-to where only his extended legs and feet could be seen. Most recently 'dead' newborn lambs that hadn't moved for over half an hour (they sleep most of the day like most newborns). I would rather people report any little thing and find all to be fine, than people be scared to approach, so report away if you think something isn't quite right.

OP, I find the word TWAT favourable as it's all straight lines. Either sheep nuts every morning, spot spray some troublesome thistles, or if you're really a caring neighbour, then protect their sensitive little eyes with next years straw stack.

@lostplot at the randy geldings - well, I always assumed it was a rand-related thing anyway.

Or op, you could get an 'assertive' mare - one where I used to ride got so frisky when in season that she used to back any unsuspecting gelding into a corner and attempt to force herself upon them. The poor boys looked quite horrified

I don't know why people move out then moan - surely the things they're moaning about are the things that make people want to live in the country? Like woolly baa-lambs and wot not?

Remembered one I was told, about a guy who accosted a local farmer and asked him to wash his tractor wheels off before leaving fields, as it was dropping mud all over the road outside his (very rural) house. I believe the answer was short and sharp

In my parents' village, the nimbys got signs put up all around the village green that dogs should be kept on leads in the"park". We all wondered how the sheepdog trials would fare.

We all wondered how the sheepdog trials would fare.

Guilty verdicts all round, presumably.

Guilty verdicts all round, presumably.

Does anyone remember the pony with really short legs where the owners had to put up a sign because she kept being reported as stuck in the mud?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/12/short-legged-horse-rescue-mayflower

We have various events in a field next to ours and they hire our fields for the car park/camping. We've had various 'hilarious' incidents over the years.
Some men were having a piss up outside their tent and then one literally turned himself towards the kitchen window and literally had a piss. Then there was the woman who brought her dog to a dog agility event and asked my father if she could practise dog trialling with his sheep. He was deaf as a post and misunderstood. So she went out and started Thankfully the organisers sent her off with a flea in her ear.

Guilty verdicts all round, presumably.

They are innocent, as all working dogs are!

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Get some peacocks, we had them in the garden growing up, they make loads of noise and scratch cars and crap on your doorstep! 😂

I might have one of my hens brood peacocks - that would be fun and deeply confusing for them :)

I have a farmer's son in my tutor group. Earlier in the year he brought in an incubator and some fertilized eggs to hatch. It was a really good experience for the 'townie' students but I did have to explain ad nauseam about 'special cuddles', between the cockerel and the hens.

UrbaneSprawl

You were n supposed to blow the bloody doors off.

Buy some really aggressive geese that occasionally find their way into your MDNs garden through some mysterious gap in the hedge that you are categorically unable to locate. Preferably Every Saturday morning so they are obliged to spend the afternoon trying to shop away angry geese.

By the way, if you do succeed in getting rid of your neighbours please send me a rightmove link. I would pay goodoneu to have a good view of shitting sheep from my breakfast table.

He's lucky you keep sheep and not hippos. Have you seen how they poo?

Please please but them this for Christmas If you haven't bumped them off and buried them under the manure like. www.shopnewzealand.co.nz/categories/food-beverage/confectionary/novelty-chocolate/sheep-droppings-chocolate-covered-peanuts

Have a festival in the field, we'll all come and drink cider and sing along to The Wurzels on the main stage.

I asked DH to move the ewes ready fro shearing tomorrow. For a laugh he says he'll do it in the bee keeping suit and pretend theres a noxious gas leak from the septic tank which is near their conservatory (seriously what a place to build it - over looking the septic tank!).

@TheHodgeoftheHedge That made me cry. What horrible people. I hope karma gets them.

That video of Pinto the horse is hilarious. Also, there's nothing quite like an annoyed Texan lady.

I’m sorry OP but these complaints are hilarious and the kind of thing that makes my day. I used to work for a guy who ran holiday cottages and some of the complaints he received were awesome. Like, the slide in the children’s play area is too steep (a standard sort of kiddies slide) and there was a hair (a single hair!) in the dishwasher. Now I run holiday lets for city breaks and I’ve had a couple of crackers of my own- complaint about the seagulls on the roof and the age of the building. Not the condition of the building, just the age. It’s an historic coastal city and there’s nothing I can or would want to do about either of these “problems”.

I would just have a right laugh at these neighbours. They sound like a hoot.

This thread has made me quite homesick. I'm a country girl but now live in NZ.

I have to admit that I do feel sorry for some of the migrants here who moved to the country here. Farmers who grow kiwifruit or grapes for wine making use helicopters or giant fans for frost control. Overnight.

So a nice move the the country can mean many weeks of being kept up all night!

I live in the city so am kept awake by helicopters looking for criminals. :-) Or our posher neighbours.