I saw her point about shifts, though. Hubby works 12-hour shifts and trying to sleep during the day is a huge problem. The neighbours either side have 8 dogs between them and all are just allowed to bark all day (from 6am and at least until midnight - sometimes til 2am). Add to the mix, next door but one has 22 chickens, 8 ducks and two ****** horrendously noisy cockerels that start at 4.30. neither of us are getting sleep, shifts or not!
We have a dog but we keep him quiet. If he starts barking, we shush him - it would drive me mad not to. I'd also love to keep chickens but we're away a lot and it's not fair to ask someone to keep coming down to put them away at night. Which is more than my neighbour does - he has them in a wire enclosure on the base of where his garage was and has a little shed for them that they can't possibly all fit it! he doesn't even have a mud patch for the ducks - complains they mess his lawn!! He moans his backside off about the well-fed Mr Fox who calls regularly but does nothing but go to the local market to replace them. I refuse his eggs because I feel they're kept less humanely than battery hens (which offended him). His neighbour the other side complained to the council about the smell/noise but nothing's been done.
Wish we could move to the middle of a city where we'd probably get more peace for a decent night/day's sleep!
Rant over now.
