‘My neighbour says I’ve ruined her life as I won’t let them put spikes on my fence’

A woman has been left feeling baffled after her neighbour tried to put spikes on the top of her fence, without asking first – and now it’s caused tension between them

A neighbour has received backlash after attempting to add spikes on one woman’s fence in a bid to keep their rabbits safe, but she did not consult the woman beforehand. The unnamed woman took to a Mumsnet to explain that her relationship with the neighbours was good, but recent incidents involving their rabbits has started to sour the relationship.

In the post she explained: “We live in a semi-detached and have done for the last 10 years. We’ve never asked a thing of next door as we generally get on with our own stuff or hire someone to fix it ourselves.”

But, things have turned sour in recent days.

She stated: “Next door has rabbits. They are those small rabbits, even though fully grown.

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“They are allowed to run free in the garden over the daytime, even with everyone at work/school.”

However, a cat which lives nearby has started to become interested in the rabbits which has concerned the owners.

“The plan, as we were told it, was it put anti cat spikes on their shed and the shed next door (not ours, the other side),” stated the author.

“I thought it was weird at the time, thinking just having them on the shed wouldn’t do anything but didn’t say anything. Next thing I get a message a couple of weeks ago to say the workmen are coming, could they access the shed from my garden.”

The woman was happy to allow the workmen around her property but after a while started to notice that the workmen were also putting spikes on the fence to the other side and were measuring her fence as well.

“So I went out, and asked if they were planning to put them on our fence, he said yes, that’s what they’d been paid to do,” she said.

“I explained that I’d been told they were just going on their shed, not the fences, and as the fence is under our ownership, we weren’t happy about them being on there at all, let alone our side, especially as we hadn’t been asked.”

The workmen obliged and did not begin work on her fences, but the rabbit owners were less than impressed to find out that the woman had refused this work.

“We’ve now had a barrage of stroppy messages blaming us for the money they spent on materials, that the rabbits now can’t run free because it’s not safe and that we’ve ruined their lives,” she explained.

Many were quick to agree with the author that this was an unreasonable request with one saying: “I agree with you – I’d be very unhappy about them putting spikes all over my fence. It’s asking too much of you. They’re very rude.”

While another said: “They’re in the wrong here on several fronts – don’t cave in!”

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