This might be long, so apologies in advance.
I share a boundary with my neighbour, which is very long and which used to consist of massive leylandii (his). A couple of summers ago he had them drastically reduced - they were well over 40 ft and were growing outwards into our garden, so we were naturally very relieved. We are now left with just the trunks, which are about 12 feet tall, and the branches in between have been removed.
Neighbour decided that the best way to create a new fence between us was to tack a wire fence onto the trunks (on our side) and then plant some plants that would ultimately grow up the wire fence. All fine, we were very happy with this, and the work was duly done.
However, we have cats. The cats are able to get through the wire fence and into his garden - when I say 'garden', I've seen smaller fields, it is massive, and apart from mowing it occasionally he doesn't do anything with it.
One evening, I looked out and saw one of my cats in the neighbour's garden - I then saw the neighbour drive his car at the cat (the garden really is that big, and the area where he keeps his car is just to the side of it), back up and try again. My son went round to have a word with him - he said that if any of the cats come onto his land he will do whatever he wants to them.
One of the cats has since been shot, the vet said clearly at close range, with an air rifle - we have no evidence it was him, but naturally we have our suspicions.
We have just today seen that neighbour has attached barbed wire to the tree trunks in the gaps, at a height that will injure the cats if they go from our garden to his - I can think of no reason for him to have done this other than to cause deliberate injury.
I totally understand that he doesn't want cats in his garden, but we have done everything he wanted in terms of creating the 'natural' fence between us that he wanted when he chose to take the leylandii down, and I am wondering whether it is legal to use barbed wire as part of a fence between domestic gardens.
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catseverywhere · 08/06/2014 15:14
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