Shrieking pet birds in neighbors garden

[jan1ne]

This morning i was woken up at the crack of dawn by a weird screaming sound and on further investigation i noticed that the neighbor had a flock of roughly 7 peacocks strutting around her garden making a loud noise which maybe okay in a kenyan safari park but is totally out of character for a detached house in watford. My cat was nearly attacked in her garden by the gang of birds and has now came in an is refusing to leave the couch.
This afternoon she was seen walking down the street with leads around their necks and everyone had top cross over the other side as people were obviously scared at her menagerie of shrieking birds and what's more is that the birds fouled the pavement on several occasions and she didn't clear the mess up even though she walked back on the same side passing her birds mess.
I never even knew peacocks were allowed as pets so is this legal, do these birds carry any diseases that we the public should be worried about and if this noise continues in the mornings or indeed night or if my cat is attacked who should i call?

[rowanwitch]

happy ending then...but I'm sure your neighbour would be chuffed if you wanted a pcture ...she wouldn't have got them if she didn't want to make a statement

[mrs.chappie]

Wow, that must've been a fab sight to see...you lucky thing!

[jan1ne]

Boxtops apparently they can still jump anywhere from 5 to 12 feet so the neighbor will be putting up higher fencing and a net to cover the top to stop them escaping as well as stop winged predators, foxes etc.
Mamalyne she's a private individual so probably wouldn't appreciate film and radio crews and her homes and pets being put on the internet.

[emmie]

Mamy, headed up by Captain Peacock, lol

[ladybirder]

I don't think she looked at it quite like that Mrs C:-)

[chrissa1]

I can't believe this thread is still going. Welcome to AB jan1ne

[mrs.chappie]

Oooh, LB (excuse me Jan1ne) did you clean your oven?

Sorry, I know we're not supposed to go off-topic outside CB. <Naughty step for Mrs.C> :o)

[jan1ne]

Rowanwitch yes it's a strange one as she's usually reserved and keeps herself to herself but seems to have changed since her trip to New zealand, now she has a nose ring, a tatoo or maybe several and her hair is dyed pink and purple and she's in her early 60's so maybe a midlife crisis or just getting mentally younger as many do these days.Hi chrissa, is there a limit on a threads pages? I've noticed that there are 4000 letters per post but never seen anything regarding page count???

[mrs.chappie]

Wow Jan1ne, your neighbour sounds as colourful as the peacocks!

[jan1ne]

Fire away mrs c, incidentally i was shocked and a little frightened when i first heard and saw them but as you know many of us usually fear things that we know nothing about but i intend to do a little peacock studying on the net to arm myself with more knowledge of them seeing we're going to be close 'friends"

[chrissa1]

Don't think so.

[craft1948]

The daughter's never been the same since her trip to NZ...........but that's another story.

[jan1ne]

Craft there was a rumour a little while that she may have met a young maori gentleman over there but this is unconfirmed.

[Prudie]

Don't let her bring any of them into your house, not even a feather, it's very unlucky.

[jan1ne]

I'm not a believer in superstition prudie but these birds droppings are rather large and that would be bad luck all over my conservatory floor!

[paddywak]

janIne, you give the impression that you think that your cat can go where it wants, well now it knows it can't and to say the owners of the peacocks are at fault is stupid.It's like saying people shouldn't have dogs in their garden because somebodies cat may want to use it as a toilet. I sympathise with you over the noise issue but as far as I'm concerned you shouldn't complain if their pets object to other animals using their patch. Just think you're self lucky you've not got a neighbour who settles the cat problem in a more permanent way.

[chrissa1]

Curiouser and curiouser.

[mrs.chappie]

You could make a nice fascinator with their feathers. Or perhaps even get a little business going, make fascinators and selling 'em down the market?

[boxtops]

Peacock feathers aren't unlucky for us, we had a peacock theme to our wedding, shedloads of feathers all over the place - I love 'em.

[jan1ne]

So back to the cat again are we? It' a half blind cat not a sabre toothed tiger! Before i had a cat countless cats would come through my garden using it as a shortcut to the park and i never once had a problem with them. My initial fear was the noise, disease and legalities regarding peacock keeping. My cat has no diseases, and the vets here are fully aware of any potential ones, my cat hardly makes a noise and it's legal so what's the problem? Who would be sick enough to kill a cat, or do i need not ask seeing the large amounts of apparent cat dislikers i've encountered lately?