It's that man again!

I think that is very provocative jeni and admire your restraint in just writing here about it. Being slightly hotheaded, I dread to think what I would have done. What a nasty piece of work.

His wife dislikes him shooting as well. She didn't know he was doing it. She's bigger than him!
I'm afraid I think that he's lying about where he shot it. If it was a clean shot in his garden, how did it end up the other side of an 6ft hedge in my garden, a distance of about 50ft away!

This is not good, jeni.
He IS creating a nuisance!!
Presumably you have checked the laws, but what do the Council/Police have to say?

Doesn't shooting at 7am in a built-up area constitute a nuisance? I don't know how noisy an air rifle would be.

I agree with Butternut and I would be checking with the Police and Council (sorry if you have already done so). I'm sure it can't be legal to be firing an air rifle in a residential area. It must be a powerful air rifle to kill wildlife. What an unpleasant experience.

Hope it wasn't a red squirrel

Does the angel apologise, or get her darling husband to apologise when something like this happens?

It's not the angel's OH is it?

... They are Hell's Angels......

It's the angels oh. No he does his own apologising when he does but he doesn't.
He reckons he's quite legal. The law says only illegal when constituting a nuisance, what's that?
The rifle doesn't need a licence as its under 12psi.
It was a grey squirrel so legally vermin.
The trouble is I don't want to get in inter neighbour disputes. If I tell police I think it's a nuisance and they agree it's a possible custodial sentence and an up to £5000 fine.
This would upset angel and anyway they have no money,which is why I paid for the drain blockage which ended up as being on his property.

I think he's nutty!

I am pretty sure he is, Anagram. Makes it more difficult for jeni.

You could point out the potential penalties I suppose, but if he is such an unpleasant character he probably wouldn't take much notice. HOWEVER.....before you next have little GD to stay he has to undertake NOT TO USE IT, OR YOU WILL GO TO THE POLICE. It reminds me of the nasty incident I had a few months ago with neighbour from hell with the Rottweiler. Niot a lot gained, but the thought of the grandchildren even witnessing such a thing is scary.

He knows them. He's just unreasonable!

He sounds like a bully to me and knows you would rather not complain, jeni.

Sorry to hear all this - I think you are right to try and avoid getting into any more conflict with neighbours than is absolutely unavoidable.
I cannot imagine the idea of a flying dead squirrel - a corpse leaping fences defies the law of physics!
I wish you good luck with all of this and hope it can be resolved somehow.

On the other hand Jeni, maybe you are lucky it is an air rifle with under 12 PSI
and not a bottle of Champagne he is trying to shoot off, which has over 90 PSI.

No I do that! He's a rotten aim with a cork. I'm quite good!

Maybe you should shoot a couple of champagne corks at him from the bedroom window when he's in his garden, jeni! See how he likes it!

That's horrible jeni.I hate shooting also even if squirrels/pigeons are a nuisance .Why can't he just shout 'Shoooo'
What a pity Gary wasn't there.He could have lobbed it back into your neighbour's garden.
I found snake in my garden last week ! It turned out to be a rubber toy one must have been thrown over by neighbour's grandchildren.I threw it back had a word with neighbour's OH next day.He apologised and said it had scared him earlier.
Saw mouse running across my patio recently.Not happy about that as l like leaving door open. What to do?

I have a friend whose garden is plagued with squirrels. Her painter and decorator traps them and drives them across the river and lets them free on a golf course about 40 miles away!! Unless they learn to swim they have to stay there (actually I don't think it's legal to trap them, but at least they aren't being shot)
Maniac if I saw a mouse I would be off up the road and wouldn't go back until someone had 'done the business' - I hate them - or worse still rats [shriek emoticon]

Mice don't bother me! When I was at boarding school we heard screams comming from the house mistresses room. Her cat had caught a mouse. She was standing on a chair!
Fearless jeni dashes in, grabs mouse.
Mouse climbs up its tail and bites brave Jeni's pinkie.
Not showing any pain, brave jeni goes outside and evicts aforesaid rodent.
Very grateful HM who insisted brave jeni went to GP next day!
Still on my medical records!

Well done that girl!
Must admit, mice don't bother me - we've had a few that got in through a tiny gap in the utility room wall and regularly made a beeline for the porch where OH keeps the birdseed and nuts. I saw one out of the corner of my eye as it made a false turning into the dining room and dashed out again! We have sealed up the hole and haven't seen any sign of them since.

But rats are another matter entirely....[yikes! emoticon]

This was Mallory Towers, was it, jeni?

The Friary School Lichfield.
We were all expected to be Ladies (or nuns)
Hats, gloves, grey lisle stockings and jolly old lacrosse!