Big Rave about Neighbours!!!

[jaybee180]

How's this for funny?

Received a letter from a lawyer today threatening to evict me from my own house because my two cats are a 'nuisance" to my neighbours!!!! WTF!!

I live in a unit on a cross lease section with two other units. None of us are joined and we each have our own plot of land. Apparently my two cats do "bowel" motions in their garden and sit on their windowsills - ohh, and they have complained about them climbing the tree!!!

So I receive this two page letter with the final paragraph stating that if I haven't gotten rid of the cats in two months time they (the neighbours) will enter my dwelling (which I own!) and I will have to "vacate". Don't ya gotta laugh at people who have nothing better to do.

So now I 've had to get a lawyer myself and serve trespass notices on people that I don't even know or want to know and a real estate agent is coming around tomorrow to give me an appraisal on selling up and getting out.

(Did I mention that these neighbours have also complained about me throwing out bread for the birds, and not scrubbing the driveway after leaving tyre marks on it - DOH!!)


AAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway that's my rave!

[WINJA]

FORGET THE CAT SHITTING ON THE LAWN GIMME THE ADDRESS AND ILL COME AND TAKE A DUMP ON THEIR DOORSTEP , THEN THEYLL HAVE SOMETIN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT

[zadok]

I'm....almost speechless! What neighbours you've got!
This is all without even coming to talk to you first?

[Ixion]

Tell them to take a running jump. Why should you leave ? Tell them to leave. And their lawyer seems to know very little about the law. Sure he IS a lawyer ?

[HDTboy]

Burnout practise in your driveway then sir? I've got a rear tyre which needs to be popped

[Big Dave]

How's this for funny?

Anyway that's my rave!

Bummer - What dicks. Tell them big dave says 'fuck off'.

When the cats next door annoy me i just let the dog out. 'Skitcha cats' is his favourite.

[crashe]

The neighbours are out of order.....

All they have to do is plonk ya cats dumps back on ya section...
(I do that with the neighbours cat as its shit is really runny and stinks real bad. I have a wee shovel and pick it up and chuck it back over the fence. The neighbour knows their cat has this shit problem... and wont take the cat to the vet to get it sorted out.)

OK time for a party at your place... we all arrive on the bikes...

No lawyer can MAKE you sell YOUR own home that you have brought.
You do NOT have to have a real estate agent come around and give you an apprasial on YOUR home unless you ask them to do it.

Just go to your local cop shop and fill out the forms..
you can deliver it or get the cops to deliver it to the neighbours.

Ummmm cats climb trees.... and you are helping the birds get fatter...

[speedpro]

I'm not totally sympathetic here. My first clue is the tyre mark on the drive. Making that was probably not a particularly neighbour-friendly action, taking into account noise, smoke and smell.

A very reasonable friend (Bob) in Perth had two boys and built them a sandpit. The local cats used it as a toilet which was just lovely for the boys. Bob asked the neighbours about this and explained the problem with not much positive coming out of it. A cage trap and a 44gal barrell full of water sorted out the problem over a few months.

In parts of Canberra bordering reserves a by-law was passed to curtail the nocturnal activities of local cats, they had to be kept indoors after a certain time. This was because they were decimating some of the local native wildlife. Caused a huge stink but even without being a greeny I had to agree with the curfew.

I have a similar problem here and now. Some cat/s are using the garden next to my front door as a toilet and occassionally it stinks, apart from spreading bark all round and making a mess. Cats are just another domesticed (sort of) animal and should be subject to the same restraints as those placed on any other domestic animal. Perhaps if I brought the neighbours dogs around to shit in your yard as an illustration of my point.

Must admit I would have brought it up with you face-to-face first but that's how things are nowadays.

[jaybee180]

I'm not totally sympathetic here. My first clue is the tyre mark on the drive. Making that was probably not a particularly neighbour-friendly action, taking into account noise, smoke and smell.

A very reasonable friend (Bob) in Perth had two boys and built them a sandpit. The local cats used it as a toilet which was just lovely for the boys. Bob asked the neighbours about this and explained the problem with not much positive coming out of it. A cage trap and a 44gal barrell full of water sorted out the problem over a few months.

In parts of Canberra bordering reserves a by-law was passed to curtail the nocturnal activities of local cats, they had to be kept indoors after a certain time. This was because they were decimating some of the local native wildlife. Caused a huge stink but even without being a greeny I had to agree with the curfew.

I have a similar problem here and now. Some cat/s are using the garden next to my front door as a toilet and occassionally it stinks, apart from spreading bark all round and making a mess. Cats are just another domesticed (sort of) animal and should be subject to the same restraints as those placed on any other domestic animal. Perhaps if I brought the neighbours dogs around to shit in your yard as an illustration of my point.

Must admit I would have brought it up with you face-to-face first but that's how things are nowadays.

Interesting interpretation of events from your angle. The tyre marks were as a result of driving off my lawn onto the driveway. Apparently it left some dirt marks that they weren't impressed about. As it was raining at the time I didn't see fit to race out there with the hose when they came over and demanded that I do it. I have never done a wheelie or a skid in my life and have no intention of doing so.

I would have no problem with them putting the shit in a bag and dumping it over the fence if they could in fact prove that it's my cats' shit!!!! There are a hundred and one strays around here at the moment. But at the end of the day my cats have a dirt box that they use (and I know this as I have to clean it out). Cats are easily detered by a water bottle/hose sprayed at them, but if you are going to smooch up to them (as I have seen the neighbour do) you can't expect them to keep away. I would love to see someone come up with a way to stop cats from wandering. That's what they do!!! It's the same as trying to stop a dog from peeing on power poles!!! If the cats were killing wildlife, or perhaps eating their fish etc etc etc, then I would certainly be more responsive but climbing a tree and shitting in the garden .........ahhhhh..........please ..........come on , get a life!

PS. No problem with bringing the dogs around. As I was an owner of a Rottweiller until recently - dog shit is something that I dealt with every day. There's far bigger things to worry about!

[jaybee180]

The neighbours are out of order.....

All they have to do is plonk ya cats dumps back on ya section...
(I do that with the neighbours cat as its shit is really runny and stinks real bad. I have a wee shovel and pick it up and chuck it back over the fence. The neighbour knows their cat has this shit problem... and wont take the cat to the vet to get it sorted out.)

OK time for a party at your place... we all arrive on the bikes...

No lawyer can MAKE you sell YOUR own home that you have brought.
You do NOT have to have a real estate agent come around and give you an apprasial on YOUR home unless you ask them to do it.

Just go to your local cop shop and fill out the forms..
you can deliver it or get the cops to deliver it to the neighbours.

Ummmm cats climb trees.... and you are helping the birds get fatter...

Yup party at my place sounds like the go............

[crashe]

The tyre mark was from dirt from your lawn...
awww mate that is so serious.. shame on you....
How could you just ride off and leave such a mess.
I hope you didnt leave a big tyre mark on the lawn.
PTPTPT

Hell's teeth it was raining.. the dirt will disappear...
That is so pathetic...

How to stop cats wandering ... I have no idea...
I wish I knew how.. as my cat wanders all over the the street.
she thinks she owns the whole street. hehehe.

I know that it is my neighbours cat shitting real bad on my section...
as the crap only arrived after the cat was brought into the area.
Plus the cat looks sick. She craps up the grass area between me and neighbours... on other neighbours lawns.. and we all chuck it back...
Some weeks I get heaps and some weeks I get none.
But It sure does stink and its killing my grass in patches.

Give your neighbour a watergun and tell them to fire it full of water at your cats everytime they go onto their section... in time your cats wont go over there.

But dont you move or sell up....

[jaybee180]

I went to see the neighbour tonight and suggested that they spray the cats but they told me that they shouldn't have to do that ......... so I guess they are only interested in the fact that there is a problem rather than actively trying to help me solve it.

I've only been here six months and I've had the cats the same amount of time. I've had them both fixed in an attempt to curb their "wild" behaviour but cats will be cats.

Anyway all the neighbours are retired and as this has gone too far (as far as I'm concerned) I just can't be bothered with it. My lawyer will write them a nasty letter telling them to pull their heads in, the local cops have been informed of the threat to evict so they are aware should I need their assistance, the local SPCA has also been informed due to the threat to kill them. Other than that they can harrass the next owner coz my life is just tooo short for this kinda stuff.

But thanks for the support guys. I've stopped feeling sorry for myself now and just feel sorry for them!

[mstriumph]

Good attitude jaybee --- show 'em you are not a soft target & can't be bullied or intimidated - it may encourage them to get a life!!

[justsomeguy]

Yup party at my place sounds like the go............

Give us a bit of notice and we'll be there...

Tristank and HDTBoy - we can decide who really is the loudest then....



PS: When I opened this thread I thought it was big dave on neighbours...... and thought why would KB's macho man be critiquing that aussie tv show (stupid me )

[Big Dave]

When I opened this thread I thought it was big dave on neighbours...... and thought why would KB's >>>macho man<< )

Like I'm in the village people!
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No news, current affairs, shit american shows, crime, reality, or anything else. Hate it.

UK comedy occasionally and maybe a pay per view film if there is no sport - otherwise I turns the box off. Period. It's a great way to be happy.