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.
Noisy rabbit
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If there was a way to kill it without being caught or suspected, believe me, I'd do it.
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.
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?
Just had a diplomatic word with the neighbour. I suggested possibly moving it inside. He's being pretty reasonable about it, said he'd move it back to the far end of the garden (not that it's a big garden) and if I can still hear it, he'll move it inside. Can't say fairer than that for now I suppose.