Gransnet forums

Chat

Can't stop laughing ....

(71 Posts)
hazel93 Tue 13-Dec-22 12:54:38

As some of you may know we moved to Cornwall earlier this year , our project and all fine.
Turf laid and due to hose pipe ban simply hoped for the best, it has thrived. Anyway, came home after shopping to find 12 sheep happily grazing after obviously deciding our grass was better than the field next door where a small flock were moved yesterday !
Just wish they would eat in straight lines !

blubber Thu 15-Dec-22 11:19:06

Go out with something white trailing behind you and they will think it is food and follow you

Quizzer Thu 15-Dec-22 11:23:00

We have rentable border collie. Only downside is that she is scared of sheep!!

Ali08 Thu 15-Dec-22 11:26:55

Oh how lovely, BlondieScot

Hattiehelga Thu 15-Dec-22 11:28:52

Some years ago I was busy in the kitchen and my 3 year old son called from the living room "Horsey Mummy". Thinking he was watching tv I just said "lovely" but he persisted so I went to have a look and there were two horses on the front lawn chomping their way through it ! Unsure what to do I phoned the local police station (yes it was that long ago !)and told the desk sergeant. His response was "ok Madam, we will send a posse". Apparently several horses had escaped from a local riding school and had caused quite a lot of damage to cars as they hoofed it down the main road. Two ladies soon appeared and led them back home.

Dottynan Thu 15-Dec-22 11:30:52

We have a hedgehog feeding box and suddenly all the food was cleared every night so I put a garden camera out only to find it was a local siamese cat clearing the bowl. Considering the opening is just big enough for a hedgehog the cat did well to wriggle in and then back out.

CraftyGranny Thu 15-Dec-22 11:41:04

Joseanne

Did someone say a sheepcat? I'm available.

I've never seen a curly cat before. Is it a catapoo

Milest0ne Thu 15-Dec-22 11:41:13

We sometimes have a hare which crops the grass around our house. It is fully appreciated but it could do with some friends to help. It is quite tame and doesn't run off when we go out of the door.

Georgesgran Thu 15-Dec-22 11:47:55

Oh my goodness - hares are my favourite animal. I’d love to have one of those as a garden visitor - I often watch a YouTube of a big leveret in an Irish garden just calmly eating grass.

hazel93 Thu 15-Dec-22 11:55:29

Only two sheep this morning ! Got up really early to let cats out as , being totally stupid, realised these ewes are probably pregnant, so no way do they need any stress. Cats now snuggled in their beds and sheep happily grazing, hopefully that is the way it will stay !
I'm wrong another two have just walked in !

CatsCatsCats Thu 15-Dec-22 11:56:25

Trying to tidy up our back garden after keeping chickens, in preparation for selling our house, we laid down new turf.

We woke up the next morning to find our new lawn devastated by a badger. It had been attracted by the easily accessible worms beneath the turf.

HousePlantQueen Thu 15-Dec-22 11:59:43

Good job it wasn't a goat grin

Apologies for the language, but this is really funny

www.keeplaughingforever.com/post/theres-a-fucking-goat-outside

Beautful Thu 15-Dec-22 12:00:07

How sweet is that ... made me laugh ... thats what we all need a good laugh , especially how things are at the moment ... may have left their manure ... keeps grass growing & nice & tasty for them ... God bless them, also you for sharing this lovely story smile ... saves time & energy in mowing the lawn !

LizH13 Thu 15-Dec-22 12:10:59

Brilliant - but have you had the lords a-leaping yet? Be aware there’ll be eight maids milking on Saturday presumably with cows, apart from Tuesday (5 gold rings!) due to birdflu you might be ok. smilesmilesmile🎄

Mollygo Thu 15-Dec-22 12:19:19

We don’t get sheep, but we do get ducks, even though they live over half a mile away. It’s such fun to see them pulling at our plants!!

GreenGran78 Thu 15-Dec-22 12:31:26

Dottynan my friend has a cat constantly raiding her hedgehog house. She has tried various ways of making it inaccessible to moggies, but the pesky thing always manages to find a way in, to eat all the food.
My house faces on to common land. The farm up the lane used to host the Blackpool seaside donkeys for their winter holidays. It was a joy to see them galloping and rolling after a long summer confined to stables. They had a knack of escaping from the field, though. I would glance out of the windows and...oh no! They're out again! A few quick phone calls to the farm, and the neighbours, and it was all hands on deck to round them up before they reached a busy road.
They no longer come, since the farmer died. I miss those hilarious round-ups, but couldn't see myself chasing donkeys any more, at my time of life. I could do with a sheep or two, though, to help with the mowing.

Unigran4 Thu 15-Dec-22 13:14:35

As a postman it was a stackable offence to bring undelivered mail back to the office, unless there was a solid reason. That reason had to be approved by a manager and the returned mail endorsed with that reason. The most common one was "Dog at Large".

My walk bordered a Common separated from the road by a gate. I turned the corner to find the gate open and one garden packed with cows happily munching the owners grass! I am not scared of cows, but there was no way I could reach the front door, so had to return the letters to the Sorting Office and get permission from my manager to endorse the letters. It took me nearly 15 minutes to convince him we needed to endorse the letters "Cows at Large"! He was convinced I was making it up.

Neilspurgeon0 Thu 15-Dec-22 13:18:37

Doodledog

This is not just grass. This is super-tasty, sheep-approved-for-grazing grass grin.

JUST BRILLIANT Doodledog ! and the capitals are deliberate

grandtanteJE65 Thu 15-Dec-22 13:31:10

I only wish someone had sheep near here that would obligingly eat my grass!

It would save me a lot of mowing.

springishere Thu 15-Dec-22 13:55:35

We had cows once. Took months to fill in the hoof marks.

Unigran4 Thu 15-Dec-22 14:54:10

Sackable offence!

Merryweather Thu 15-Dec-22 15:06:46

My daughters two bunnies keep the garden fertilised and trimmed. They do a wonderful job. I was worried in the summer they would run out.
We are down to only one now. Poor Peter was hopping one minute and prone the next.
My daughter was so upset.

Bijou Thu 15-Dec-22 15:07:41

My son in Glostershire came back from holiday to find foxes had dug a den under his shed. In the summer a Fox was coming downstairs. It had been sleeping on his bed. He lives in the middle of the village.
My niece in Barbados has lately been plagued with monkeys which have stripped the mango trees and bananas and are running all over the roof. They are not frightened of her three dogs. Two rotweilers and a German shepherd.

Vintagenonna Thu 15-Dec-22 16:33:17

hazel93, you are lucky! I've just come back from the butcher and gazed lovingly at beautiful Hampshire lamb chops. £27.40 or so a kg. If your visitors don't go . . .

Oldnproud Thu 15-Dec-22 16:52:00

I've had a badger coming into the front garden this last couple of years, but it has churned up all the moss grass, looking for food, rather than 'mowing' it. Anyone got any tips on how to train it?

Merryweather Thu 15-Dec-22 17:11:03

Is it badgers or foxes that are deterred by male human urine?
How you perimeter the area is up to you guys ?