- Aug 27, 2014
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My neighbor has gone on the good ole internet and convinced herself that my chickens are going to give her histoplasmosis.
Has anyone ever had to deal with this? How did you deal with this kind of situation?
Details:
My neighbor does not have immune deficiency (if she did, I could understand her being maybe a little worried about histo, but alas, she does not), but she does have a good dose of crazy.
I live in Upstate NY, we are not prone to droughts (quite the opposite, actually), and her house/deck is over 100 feet from my coop. She and her husband are only up on weekends during the Summer and some weekends in the Spring and Fall, whereas I live here full time.
I've tried to reassure her that there is no risk to her and we will be extremely careful with things, but this did nothing to help.
She has gone to any neighbor that will listen and told them we are terrible people for getting chickens and we will not get away with it. (She has even gone so far as to call us "entitled" and insult us.)
She has gone to local government and tried to get them to do something, but everything we are doing is completely legal, so they've told her there's nothing she can do- this seems to have fired her up even more....
It's starting to get to me- I'm used to dealing with people with respect and getting it back in return, and I'm not great at dealing with crazy.
Not to mention I don't like her badmouthing us to the other neighbors, and feeling a ton of negative energy from her when she's around.
Basically I don't want to go outside on the weekends because she's usually on her deck talking about me to someone, and I really don't like confrontation. I don't want to feel like that in my own home...
Any advice or anecdotes, etc will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Frazzled
Has anyone ever had to deal with this? How did you deal with this kind of situation?
Details:
My neighbor does not have immune deficiency (if she did, I could understand her being maybe a little worried about histo, but alas, she does not), but she does have a good dose of crazy.
I live in Upstate NY, we are not prone to droughts (quite the opposite, actually), and her house/deck is over 100 feet from my coop. She and her husband are only up on weekends during the Summer and some weekends in the Spring and Fall, whereas I live here full time.
I've tried to reassure her that there is no risk to her and we will be extremely careful with things, but this did nothing to help.
She has gone to any neighbor that will listen and told them we are terrible people for getting chickens and we will not get away with it. (She has even gone so far as to call us "entitled" and insult us.)
She has gone to local government and tried to get them to do something, but everything we are doing is completely legal, so they've told her there's nothing she can do- this seems to have fired her up even more....
It's starting to get to me- I'm used to dealing with people with respect and getting it back in return, and I'm not great at dealing with crazy.
Not to mention I don't like her badmouthing us to the other neighbors, and feeling a ton of negative energy from her when she's around.
Basically I don't want to go outside on the weekends because she's usually on her deck talking about me to someone, and I really don't like confrontation. I don't want to feel like that in my own home...
Any advice or anecdotes, etc will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Frazzled
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