We have lived in our home for almost 20 years now. Before the neighbors next door moved in we got along well with our neighbors. They are a young couple. The boyfriend is a beer drinker and the girlfriend is a prima donna. The boyfriend gave my daughter hell in high school. When they moved in they promptly went out and got 2 huge dogs and three cats. We are not allowed to have fences in our neighborhood and their dogs kept getting loose. They just allowed their three cats to roam. My husband and I have always big landscaping buffs and enjoy our time in the gardens. The neighbors cats have destroyed so many of our beautiful plants. Our cars are constantly getting scratched and dirtied from the cats jumping on them. We put a wicker set on our front porch so that we could enjoy sitting outside only to have our furniture taken over by her cats. Now we have to be careful not to sit down unless we clean the cushions.
I have tried every cat deterrent I can think of and nothing works. I made the mistake of asking her a couple of times to control her animals behavior. After one of her cats ran into my home and tore through the house like a bat out of hell as I was leaving for an appointment- I was late, I called the animal warden. cats in our county are considered feral animals so they won't pick them up. However, they are also considered "personal property," so we can't trap them and take them to the humane shelter.
Anyway, we wrote them a letter asking them to keep their animals off of our property. we asked them to call their animals home or come and get them if they saw them on our property. Previously, they would ignore the behavior as if they thought their animals had the "right" to be on our property. The letter was a bigggg mistake.
They came over, beer in hand, and called me some choice names, told us we needed to be on medication. threatened my husband with harm if their cats went to "jail" asked us why we couldn't ignore cat shit in our mulch, cat hair on our furniture, and what's a few plants? I told them that an autumn sedum cost 20.00 a piece an evergreen 49.95. and replacing mulch was expensive. I told them we should be able to enjoy sitting on our front porch without being covered in cat hair and fleas or being harrassed by their animals.
Now we are the assholes of the neighborhood. when my grandchildren come over to visit, they are treated like criminals and are not allowed to play with the other children. Two other younger couples gather frequently in the neighbors front yard drinking, making remarks, laughing about us. I am snobbed by these neighbors and the looks I get could kill. I feel like a prisoner in my own home. we cannot move.
I don't understand the disrepect that people have for other people's property. I have a cat that I trained from the time we adopted her to stay within the confines of our property, but she is indoors mostly. I did not want her to be a nuisance to my neighbors. This was all that I asked of my neighbors. I did not want to also have to "live" with her cats. Now they have alienated us in the neighborhood. How do you get past this. I want to make them suffer for the way we have been treated.
I have tried every cat deterrent I can think of and nothing works. I made the mistake of asking her a couple of times to control her animals behavior. After one of her cats ran into my home and tore through the house like a bat out of hell as I was leaving for an appointment- I was late, I called the animal warden. cats in our county are considered feral animals so they won't pick them up. However, they are also considered "personal property," so we can't trap them and take them to the humane shelter.
Anyway, we wrote them a letter asking them to keep their animals off of our property. we asked them to call their animals home or come and get them if they saw them on our property. Previously, they would ignore the behavior as if they thought their animals had the "right" to be on our property. The letter was a bigggg mistake.
They came over, beer in hand, and called me some choice names, told us we needed to be on medication. threatened my husband with harm if their cats went to "jail" asked us why we couldn't ignore cat shit in our mulch, cat hair on our furniture, and what's a few plants? I told them that an autumn sedum cost 20.00 a piece an evergreen 49.95. and replacing mulch was expensive. I told them we should be able to enjoy sitting on our front porch without being covered in cat hair and fleas or being harrassed by their animals.
Now we are the assholes of the neighborhood. when my grandchildren come over to visit, they are treated like criminals and are not allowed to play with the other children. Two other younger couples gather frequently in the neighbors front yard drinking, making remarks, laughing about us. I am snobbed by these neighbors and the looks I get could kill. I feel like a prisoner in my own home. we cannot move.
I don't understand the disrepect that people have for other people's property. I have a cat that I trained from the time we adopted her to stay within the confines of our property, but she is indoors mostly. I did not want her to be a nuisance to my neighbors. This was all that I asked of my neighbors. I did not want to also have to "live" with her cats. Now they have alienated us in the neighborhood. How do you get past this. I want to make them suffer for the way we have been treated.
