My neighbours have a rabbit (presumably bought for their 2 kids) which thumps like a goodun through the small hours. They've had it for well over a year. I own a ground floor flat and my bedroom overlooks my garden. The rabbit pen is just over the fence so it's just a few feet away from my ears. Last night and many other nights, it thumps about 20 or 30 times a minute, and it's just like someone thumping your wall very hard. Naturally it keeps me awake if it goes on for too long. I've told them about it before and I think they moved the pen further away which reduced the volume a bit but it seems to have been returned to the same area of the garden again. To my mind, it's equivalent to a barking dog, which of course wouldn't be allowed after certain hours. What rights do I have? I want them to get rid of the damn animal. It would be alright if they had a guinea pig, hampster, something that doesn't thump.
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If there was a way to kill it without being caught or suspected, believe me, I'd do it.
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Go round with a pot of boiling water, was my initial answer but i thought i better not post that.
This did happen to me however the rabit cage was at the bottom of the garden which my fence backed on to, so when it did start thumping it would make a huge loud banging noise all across the fence to my bedroom.
Depending how easy you can get to the cage you simply have to go to the cage right in the middle of the night, open the cage pick it up and throw it over the fence.
Next door will just think it escaped.
Job done...
Depending how easy you can get to the cage you simply have to go to the cage right in the middle of the night, open the cage pick it up and throw it over the fence.
Next door will just think it escaped.
Job done...
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Head out to the country, trap a fox, and dump it into their garden at night?
Head out to the country, trap a fox, and dump it into their garden at night?
I looked over the fence last night at 4am. It's a big square metal pen and had a thick blue plastic cover over it with two bricks covering it. Even a fox probably couldn't get inside it.
Rabbits thump to communicate, usually to warn of danger or similar things.
It could be that the rabbit doesn't get enough attention or is looking for a mate so is trying to communicate with others. You probably won't be able to stop the rabbit thumping unless you address what the rabbit is trying to tell you but I would go round the neighbours house again and tell them to move it...
It could be that the rabbit doesn't get enough attention or is looking for a mate so is trying to communicate with others. You probably won't be able to stop the rabbit thumping unless you address what the rabbit is trying to tell you but I would go round the neighbours house again and tell them to move it...
This basically.
Our two house rabbits, well one of them anyway, occassionally thumps his back feet when he hears something ( a car or scooter outside). As they are inside it can be quite loud, nothing like when our other rabbit smacks the run into the wall with her head though....
Once a rabbit figures out how to get attention they will keep doing it.
This basically.
Our two house rabbits, well one of them anyway, occassionally thumps his back feet when he hears something ( a car or scooter outside). As they are inside it can be quite loud, nothing like when our other rabbit smacks the run into the wall with her head though....
Once a rabbit figures out how to get attention they will keep doing it.
So it wouldn't be unreasonable for me to ask them to keep their rabbit indoors, inside their house?
It certainly wouldn't be unreasonable no.
Rabbits make suprisingly good house pets although a lot of people assume they crap everywhere and thus will not have them indoors.
Our two are "potty trained", come when they are called and actually act like small dogs rather than rabbits. I should point out that they have been house rabbits ever since we got them.
Whether your neighbours are willing to have the rabbit indoors is another matter. If they can get over the "rabbits should be outside in a hutch" mentality then they will realise just how great rabbits can actually be once they are treated like cats or dogs (contact, playtime etc).
On another note if they are not willing to have it indoors then you could suggest they get a companion for it. This shouldn't be done without reasearch before hand though as a dominant rabbit can seriously injure or even kill another rabbit if they get into a fight. Our two were introduced around 18 months after we got our first rabbit, they had one fight and that was that. They are now inseperable.
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