also the fence protective apparatus 1 includes a spanning member 22 a tail 23 and a pair of half sleeves 24 and 25 the spanning member 22 in the embodiment shown in fig1 through 4 is an elongate structure having a generally linear axis and being substantially u shaped in cross section perpendicular to the axis thereof the spanning member 22 effectively forms a mouth 28 that has portions on opposite sides thereof that are sized and shaped to slidably but snugly fit over respective fence panel top rails 11 that is the mouth 28 is designed to face downwardly in operation and the apparatus 1 in general utilizes gravity to hold the apparatus 1 in place relative to the fence panels 4 and 5 by the positioning of the mouth 28 on the top rails 11 in the illustrated embodiment of fig1 through 5 the shape of the mouth 28 is generally u shaped in nature however it is foreseen that this shape will be varied depending upon the thickness and the shape of the fence panels with which the apparatus 1 is to be utilized that is the shape could be rectangular in nature or some other configuration that would closely conform to the shape of the top of the fence panels and it is intended that the term u shaped encompass similar shapes for this purpose opposite sides of the spanning member 22 may even be different in.