Neighbours have moved 2 sheep into back garden!!

longleggedhair

I have spent most of the day thinking I was going mad as I could hear sheep baaing. I went upstairs to look and to my amazement there are two sheep in the neighbours garden.

We don’t live in a rural area, it’s a normal suburban garden surrounded by several neighbours.

The sheep have nowhere to sleep & I can’t see any water. They are making lots of noise and I really don’t know what to do, I’m certain you can’t just have livestock in your garden! Does anyone have any advice? Thanks.

PS Writing this at 1.30am as I can’t sleep for the noise they’re making.

comeandgo

Go and speak to your neighbour and ask what the long term plans are regarding the sheep?  They may have escaped from a field and neighbour is just giving bed and breakfast until they are picked up.  Look at the sheep on the hills and fields, they don’t have a special place to sleep nor water troughs, sheep eat grass which is a wet substance.

prowla

Cheaper than a lawnmower.

prowla

longleggedhair said:

PS Writing this at 1.30am as I can’t sleep for the noise they’re making.

Have you tried counting them?

user1977

Is it a fleecehold house? 

Undervalued

longleggedhair said:

I have spent most of the day thinking I was going mad as I could hear sheep baaing. I went upstairs to look and to my amazement there are two sheep in the neighbours garden.

We don’t live in a rural area, it’s a normal suburban garden surrounded by several neighbours.

The sheep have nowhere to sleep & I can’t see any water. They are making lots of noise and I really don’t know what to do, I’m certain you can’t just have livestock in your garden! Does anyone have any advice? Thanks.

PS Writing this at 1.30am as I can’t sleep for the noise they’re making.

Well I'm certain you are wrong!

As others have said, there may be welfare issues if the animals are not being properly cared for or if the cause a statutory nuisance. However that is another matter.

The general principle of English law is that you can do anything you like unless there is a law that prohibits it.

jimbog

You're kidding, right?

babyblade41

Some houses have covenants that state no livestock, we were going to have a look at one property that had this written in & as we have hens, ducks, turkeys & pigs then it was pointless viewing

youth_leader

I remember an article a few years ago about people slaughtering sheep outside their home in the street, halal style. 

Megaross

If you're concerned about welfare issues speak to them and point them in the direction of the rspca.

It may be they want to keep sheep (uncommon but not unheard of) in their garden but aren't fully clued in to how.

I've known people keep chickens or ducks and even bees or rabbits in their garden (normal houses, not rural). Pigs and sheep far less common but I can see it in a large garden.

Keep_pedalling

youth_leader said:

I remember an article a few years ago about people slaughtering sheep outside their home in the street, halal style. 

If the OP’s neighbours are Muslims then it is quite possible that the sheep have been obtained for Eid al-Abha which occurs early in July.

If they are not, you may have sheep rustlers living next door, in hard times farmers find a lot more of their livestock going missing.

Shelter is not a problem for sheep at this time of the year, they are perfectly capable of surviving in the Welsh hills without it. They do need water though.