Neighbours over-grown tree, what to do about it.

Cobra said:
We weren't really friends, they had p***ed me off once or twice by hammering small nails in the fence and cutting the heads off, as they didn't want my cat climbing the fence. :rolleyes:
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That sounds like an offence under section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. If I caught someone being that blatant I'd have a word with the local RSPCA inspector. :mad:
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
That sounds like an offence under section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
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As I mentioned in my post
Cobra said:
This was designed to maim, and in totaly cotrary to the ( in force at the time) 1876 cruelty to animals.
Which of course has now been superseded twice.
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AndrewFlannigan said:
If I caught someone being that blatant I'd have a word with the local RSPCA inspector.
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I guess I should have done, but I pulled them out, they never re-appeared and thankfully no harm done
 
A new neighbour came and complained to my wife that sometimes sometimes our dog barking would waken him when he was nightshift, it was suggested that if his cat didn’t sit on our fence looking at the dog he would be quiet. Cat was very careful about crossing the garden, sure his tail lost some hair a few times as it shot up the fence.
 
Tigger.ufo said:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-w...-garden-birds/are-cats-causing-bird-declines/
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The tl;dr version of that page is 'um, we don't really know'.

The report I linked to, states:

"‘The widespread dissemination of cats in the woods and in the open or farming country, and the destruction of birds by them, is a much more important matter than most people suspect, and is not to be lightly put aside’, observed Edward Howe Forbush more than a century ago.1 Only in the last fifteen years, however, have the sheer magnitude and variety of the impacts exercised by domestic cats (Felis catus) on birds and other wildlife been brought into sharp focus, through a series of scientific studies which show that cats are amongst the ‘most ubiquitous and environmentally damaging invasive predators on Earth’"

I like cats. I've stated that already. But they are destructive. A fact many cat owners are either ignorant of, or in denial about. But it's like cars, innit? Everyone knows traffic pollution causes massive problems, but most folk just think everyone else should reduce their use of motor vehicles, rather than themsleves...

Anyway. Branches.

They closed the local NatWest. People lost their jobs. I switched to the Co-Op Bank.
 
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AZ6 said:
How common is it, to get deers and badgers and otters in the average garden? Seeing as the vast majority of people live in urban areas, well away from typical wildlife habitats?
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I've just been watching a muntjac eating the hedge around the office car park. We're in the middle on an industrial estate.
 
I had no idea about this law. My neighbour and I have been cutting each others trees for years. (Ooooh Matron)
 
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