I do not like thee, neighbour
Feb. 10th, 2009 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastes1. he's never spoken to me in 7 years--other than once when there was a lost dog, and I helped him catch it and hand it to the dog warden. He referred to me as "this lady."
2. He's a gamekeeper
3. He keeps his dogs in a shed in the garden
4. He pulled down the swift's nest in his eaves, the one I love to watch in the summer. And he's put a floaty plastic thing up there to dissuade them from nesting there again.
5. Gamekeeper. Ick.
6. He starts his 4x4 every morning at 730, then goes back into the house, leaving it running for about 20 minutes, waking everyone up.
7. All his dogs are cringey.
Do Not Like.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 01:29 am (UTC)We just shoot people over here; over the littlest things.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:40 pm (UTC)Sounds like a prick.
With my neighbors it's their pool and the fact that they leave their Christmas reindeer out in their yard all year. It took the hurricane last September for them to take it inside. Now it's back out there.
But at least they don't destroy nests. What an ass...
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 03:59 pm (UTC)I could go on for days about the pool construction next door. Actually, I have in my personal blog.
Then my neighbors across the street (who are both teachers) scream at their kids and dogs.
Then the other ones across the street have a grown daughter that's nuts and will stand on the stidewalk and stare at people.
I need to get out of suburbia...
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:36 pm (UTC)View Larger Map
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:42 pm (UTC)If he's a gamekeeper, he's likely to be one of the quiet, very-hard-to-get-to-speak types. It's taken me a long, long time to get the other guys on the shoots to SPEAK to me. It's not an impolite thing, it's a 'slow to warm up' thing.
Dogs in a shed in the garden = kennel. And if they're out there, they've got a thick enough undercoat to manage. I keep all three of my girls out in a kennel.
4 by 4s notoriously need to warm up to actually start properly. My mum has to start up the Defender before trying to drive off in it, or it'll stall and stall and something will break. So yeah, irritating, but not exactly something they can help.
Cringey dogs = personality, likely. I've seen labradors who are bold as anything and get dragged back by the scruff of their necks when they're naughty - and I've seen cringey, curling labradors that press their noses into your hand and glue themselves to your side -- despite being praised and fondled and stuff. If he has cringey dogs, it's likely because they're working dogs who are eager to please.
....Playing devil's advocate. Fire at will.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 01:57 pm (UTC)I don't agree with keeping dogs outside. Never have. Or in inside cages, either, incidentally. If I can't treat them like part of your family, why have them? Not criticisng your choice to do so of course, I know he has them as part of his job, but it's a very antiquated method--I know many other gamekeepers who keep their working dogs in the house. Also - if he wants to do that, it's his perogative but of course they bark ALL THE TIME. And I've worked in animal welfare to recognise a cringey dog, and the reasons behind it.
Well, I do live in a village and literally every house here has a 4x4. He is the only person who does this. It's not only bad for the environment, but it's horribly anti-social.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 02:08 pm (UTC)As far as dogs outside goes: we bring ours into the house during the day time, but at night, they pretty much run to their kennels. It's a closed place that's all theirs, safe and not going to move. They sleep together, they're out of the way and it draws a line between 'pets' and 'working dogs'. We crated our dogs when they were puppies - cages, essentially - and it wasn't because we were 'locking them up'. It was a safe space for them; a place to retreat to when it got too much and we almost never put the puppy inside the cage; she'd nudge the door open and go in herself.
I've never actually met a gamekeeper who keeps his dogs inside - or any of the others on the shoots. I'm sure there ARE gamekeepers who do; just saying it's a foreign concept to me. The point I think is, if you want the dog to be alert and stuff, it's difficult to make a distinction between 'pet' and 'working' unless they have that boundary. Fawn is so pet-like, she's hard to work in the field - she'll look at Mum, rather than marking where the birds are falling. Willow, on the other hand, hates being in the house - she'll constantly ask to go outside - and in the field, is totally switched on and straining to work.
But if the dogs are barking, he's not doing it properly. Our girls bark from the kennel if someone comes onto the property or if there's a thunderstorm - but if there's a thunderstorm, we bring 'em in as Willow's terrified of thunder and if they bark if someone's too close, it's a good thing, security-wise. As far as animal welfare goes - totally respect it. On the other hand, our three... Molly is cantankerous and plays deaf a lot of the time. Willow is bold as anything and requires being dominated regularly in order to reinforce her place in the pecking order (by that, I mean, being rolled onto her back and pinned down, then released) whereas Fawn instantly goes floppy and cringy if anyone raises their voice. She's never been hit, never been shouted at, it's just her nature. She's a 'soft' dog; requires gentle handling, and is very definitely a woman's dog.
Incidentally, our gamekeeper has a very soft dog at the moment, and he's used to hard dogs. We're constantly reprimanding him for shouting at Bessy, because she cringes. She's never been hit though, and she's the soppiest thing ever; in the back of the landie, she's as close to my lap as she can be, nudging and licking me. I think it's a mentality, rather than anything else? If I saw any indication that our dogs didn't like their treatment, I'd change it - I can't stand animal cruelty. But the way they respond, particularly to working, tells me everything about how much they love it. I go on the shoots because Willow adores them, and wants more work than can be achieved working in tandem with Fawn.
I don't know. I know the more up-to-date Defenders don't need the warm up, but ours does because it's old, battered and more than a little beat-up. Yeah, it's foul for the environment and anti-social, not excusing that part.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:27 pm (UTC)He deserves to get shitbombed. By VULTURES.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 05:29 pm (UTC)There's a special hell just for that.
Also, poor dogs :(
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 08:59 pm (UTC)I wouldn't endanger the poor moles!
:)
no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 09:41 pm (UTC)"Gamekeeper."
p'tui.