There are so many things I would like to do but none of it constructive.

The best solution sadly is to send them where I plan to for a couple months and at least in the new place, they will be written into the lease (It is a lease/purchase). Where I am at now, I have lived for almost 5 years. However, the lease I signed had written in the 2 dogs and 3 cats. The landlord knows about the others and had no issues with them. When the lease was up, the option was to sign a new one or go month to month with the same terms so we never wrote the other animals in, we just went month to month as we knew we were going to buy at some point in the future. It just seemed to be better for everyone not to get locked into the longer term lease.
The issue only came up b/c the neighbor is making such a fuss. If she would at least talk to me maybe then I would feel better about this whole mess. However making phone calls behind my back without any attempt on her part to speak to me really gets me mad!