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

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 I bet I know where that is! Does it have a glass roof and a courtyard in the middle? I stayed there and those fucking seagulls are ENORMOUS noisy bastards! They look at you with utter distain, if you try to shoo them.

OP this thread made me listen to the Bonzo Dog Doo Da bands 'jollity farm' google it - you might want to put it on loud speaker and play it outside their house

This thread should be nominated for Mnset classics

I have a new story! I have been flat out working but tonight, when I got home at 8, DH said Mr N had been round. Apparently he wants us to 'cull' the bats, as they are upsetting them. DH told him bats are a protected species and in fact, we had provided over 40 homemade bat boxes over the last 2 years because we are so fond of them. Mr N felt this was 'unbelievable' and he 'literally can'r believe it'.

He left confused, apparently. DH is massive and was wearing chain saw trousers, a vest, chainsaw gloves, protective boots, a hat hat and was filthy which could have presented a slightly menacing image, upon reflection.

I hope he leaves the bats alone, we love those fury critters.

Ah that's the problem. Mr NDN is actually bats and doesn't like real bats stealing his thunder.

This thread should be nominated for Mnset classics

I already did, it's under consideration.

Cull bats? If he mentions it again point out they're defending you all from plagues of mosquitos etc. Given that this ignorant twerp might try to take matters into his own hands maybe make sure he knows not to touch bats because of the extraordinarily unlikely possibility of contracting rabies. That might send them scuttling back to town.

How can anyone not like bats?

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I live in the countryside and am always amused by these silly arses.
Another slant I have is the people who moved next door to the lovely country hotel which is renowned as a wedding venue, and complain about the noise of wedding guests!! They tried to get their drinks licence removed because guests were drinking at the weddings!

It's illegal to kill bats, he's a stupid idiot.

I had to laugh the other day when a woman on 'Escape to the Country' said they would have to get a ride on lawn mower when told the house they were being shown had 2 fields! That's what the animals do - eat the grass! She was moving to the countryside so she could keep horses.

How can you be offended by bats? What are they doing, mistaking him for a moth and swooping down on him?

I would love to have his view. We live in a lovely village but are surrounded by trees and my neighbours fucking enormous garage that he built right up against our back fence last year without even telling us what he was planning. I would love to have a view of a field of sheep, shagging or otherwise. I never realised how much I would miss the views.

When my brother moved to the New Forest (Hampshire), he gleefully told me that now if he is late for work, it isn't car traffic but horse/cow traffic that is the problem. Problem not being the right word because he loves it. He told me (sadly not in this job anymore) that he felt all the troubls melt away on the drive back home, passing sheep and cows. Oh and occasionally donkeys!

I am a dye hard townie. The animals would not bother me at all. The only problem is the public transport or mostly lack of.

How can anyone be upset by bats? I'd keep an eye on your bat boxes OP.
Well either that or make another 100 and deliberately put them against your border with the neighbours ;)

What possible harm could bats be causing?! I think it is one of the joys of a summer evening, watching the bats whizzing round at dusk.

What possible harm could bats be causing?! I think it is one of the joys of a summer evening, watching the bats whizzing round at dusk.

I love bats, I have a colony in my loft. I love to watch them whizzing round the lamp-post outside catching insects, but my God! The damage they do in the loft is horrendous!

One of them got inside one of my costume storage bags wee'd and poo-ed all over the silk costume, and then died in there! Bat guano is incredibly corrosive. There wasn't a lot left of hundreds of pounds worth of costume. (Plus I had to dispose of the decomposing bat)

They do generally leave a horrid bat-poo, smelly mess in the corner of the loft that live in. I try to keep them away from my costume storage, but t's not always possible :-( . I wouldn't try to evict them though!

I thought you weren’t allowed to use a loft space that had resident bats.

I would be very surprised if he came in our land and interfered with the bar boxes - he just seems to feel that awe should exercise some form of 'control' over the animals - domesticated and wild. It's weird!
We're shearing today

Deathray - hope your brother is not the townie wanted to fence the Nes Forest?

I’d go round, knock on the door and tell him that you’re moving all the animals so he needn’t complain anymore.

And that you’ve sold all your farmland to Barrat who will be building a 100 house new build estate.

Perhaps also drop that it will be one of those 50:50 private:council estates :)

That's nuts! I love living close to wildlife and animals (although pigs can be a little fragrant) and watching what they get up to is part of the fun of living in the countryside.

Love really idea! Definately tell them in passing the next time you see them!

All shorn and looking silly now

Wonder if Mr N will complain about naked sheep now?

We had some pipistrelles summer roosting under our soffits (not actually in the loft) but for a while we didn't realise this and DH wondered what the shits in the alleyway were. So he got out his microscope .... bat shit is indigestible insect parts, lots of fragments of compound eyes.

Errol, your husband sounds fabulous!

I love the idea of him looking at batshit under a microscope.