Posted on 07/04/2023 1:03:49 PM PDT by Morgana
Yes but at the same time the old lady does not like the neighbor’s kids on her lawn. You know how kids can be, the smaller they are the more they go everywhere. Even in their teens they tend to get into mischief.
Not as bad as these:
Margaret and Marjorie Barthel, keepers of The Rat House Of The Palisades
To the dismay of courtroom journalists, Denham vs. Barthel has been settled out of court. Instead, we can now only guess how jurors would have reacted to the macabre tale of Pacific Palisades homeownership gone really wrong.Within the first full day of moving into their $1.8 million Pacific Palisades home last October, Scott and Elizabeth Denham realized that they had a rat problem. Within a week they realized their neighbors had a rat problem, too. Then the couple discovered that the neighbors — 78-year-old twin sisters Margaret and Marjorie Barthel — had been purposefully and lovingly feeding rats, nurturing an exponentially multiplying population of rats on the Westside, which experts believe ranged from tens of thousands to as many as a half-million of the furry creatures.
The Denhams soon also learned that Los Angeles County’s Health Department had known about the rat infestation for years and had no plans to end the bizarre, health-threatening situation — even after vermin inspectors spotted rats roaming freely inside the reclusive twins’ home in the ritzy beachside suburb. In fact, as L.A. Weekly reported in “Rathouse of the Palisades,” the rats had tunneled their way through the floors of almost every room in the sisters’ home and had even hollowed out their furniture. Scott Denham, who filed his lawsuit against the sisters late last year and sought a permanent injunction against their rat-feeding ways, tells the Weekly, “All [the injunction] says is you have to keep your property rat-free. For most people, that’s pretty basic. We didn’t want to give up until we got to that point.”
That's excerpted from the story at the link.
Not crazy cat ladies. Crazy rat ladies.
But he is lying about cats going on his grass.
> I’m sure there is some kind of ordinance she is breaking. <
In my long life I’ve dealt with neighbors who scream about every little thing. A leaf from my tree falls on their property, and they go nuts.
I’ve also dealt with neighbors who are (for the lack of a better word), trash. They degrade their own property, and they degrade the neighborhood.
So where does one draw the line? It’s with you said above.
And please see my post #16.
I get your point, Leaning, but your plastic pink flamingo brigade is not leaving poops on your neighbor’s lawn.
What you do in your space should not spill over into another person’s space. If it does, you are violating their property rights.
As we know from Covid there are hordes of paranoid germophobes who think irrationally.
I think Governor Dinwiddie may fall in to that category.
She’s an old woman most likely a widow. All her kids grown and gone. She probably only has her cats for company.
I would like to build fencing that keeps cats out of my property. What kind of fencing does that?
I’m with you, Morgana.
Everyday this place gets worse.
One of my late friend’s sisters used to feed feral cats.
She would dump a 40 lb. bag of cat food on the kitchen
floor and leave her bedroom window open so they could
come and go. Her clothes were usually in a pile on the
floor so the cats were all over them.
She was a hostess at a very up scale restaurant, if those
customers only knew...
“He does not like her feeding her cats but she probably finds his anchor babies loud and annoying as well.
Come one she’s a old woman with only her cats for company give her some peace and quiet, and keep your kids off her lawn.”
They both need to give a little. She should tell him she’ll put up with his kids if he’ll put up with her feral cat feeding. Life is too short to be digging trenches.
> What you do in your space should not spill over into another person’s space. If it does, you are violating their property rights. <
Yes, that’s a fair point. And it’s something I struggle with.
Here is perhaps a better example. It’s something that’s actually happening on the street where I live. It’s making a lot of people unhappy.
One guy decided to plant Zoysia grass on his lawn. He chose it because the grass chokes out weeds, and grows slowly. That’s a plus, because it means less mowing.
But the stuff is damn ugly, except in the summer. Unlike regular grass, it turns an ugly brown in the off-season.
Now, here’s the problem. This guy’s Zoysia grass has been spreading to lawns where the owners don’t want it. So who’s right here?
Yes, cats dig a hole to do business in a mulch covered flowerbed just as my neighbor’s cat did in mine. This attracted flies and smelled bad. This cat, was an inside/outside pet, left dead things on my doorstep. Lovely. I don’t hate cats, I just don’t want to clean up after them.
The cats are likely not the ones crapping on the grass because they need to bury their scat.
We’ve got a number of felines who were using my flower bed for a litter box and I solved the problem easily.
Included some marigolds, which cats dislike.
And put a couple of boxes of clear plastic forks to good use in the clear spots in the flower bed.
Take the fork, slide the handle into the dirt so that the tines stick up. And use a lot of them.
You won’t see the forks, especially after your plants are established. And after the kitties get their prats poked, they get the idea to jog on.
I haven’t had a problem since I started doing that.
she’s a crazy cat lady. The cats she feeds crap in his yard and that’s OK but god forbid a kid retrieves a basketball from her yard? She’s clearly got mental issues.
See my reply #35. 😺
Yet no one here has noticed one thing in this story....
The father is a STAY AT HOME DAD who can’t keep his kids out of her yard?
Not relevant.
If they’re wild cats pooping in the yard his kids play in, seems like that’s also a health issue?
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