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[TartyMcFarty]

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It's not personally a problem for us, but our tenant has complained about them. She actually said the neighbour had put lots of nails in the fence - he had put nails in the posts, but not the panels. The boundary is our responsibility, and based on our tenant's original description, I said I'd write and ask thr neighbour to remove them. However to my mind, these seem like a reasonable and safe deterrent.

Would I be within my rights to ask him to remove the 3 inch nails sticking out from the posts, if not the actual deterrent strips? I want to keep our tenant happy, buy I do sympathise with thr neighbour wanting to keep her cats out of his garden.

Tarty - YANBU. I have two rabbits that have the run of our garden, a few neighbourhood cats who fancy a bit of rabbit (!), but I wouldn't use nails to keep them out. We have the plastic spikes that you linked and these work fine.

I think (if you google it) that nails, barbed wire etc could actually lead to prosecution should a would be burglar, nosy neighbour decide to jump the fence.

What about a deterrent alarm? I've seen some neighbours use those to keep cats away from their prized lawn!

I don't see the problem with these and I have a cat. Ask them to remove the nails though.