LH, they may be your friends, but many of us can't stand them bcos of the mess they make of our property. It's OK for your neighbours to invite friends round and have a party in their back garden, but it's not OK for them to come round and puke in your garden, no matter how free-spirited they are!

Re Guest, if they're a pet then they're owned by someone, and that owner is fully responsible for every action that pet takes. Which means someone in my area owes me money for the time I spend cleaning up cat shit, and for the damage caused by digging up plants. They want to argue over the way I treat their pet when it trespasses on my propery, bring it on...

Graham.