Guinea Pig Safe Cat Repellent?

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Found that a cat has been traumatising my babies today :( not impressed at all! Although, obviously, I love cats and understand that they can't help the fact that they instinctively want to eat small furries like Penny and Pickles.

Anyway, they are fine and I have checked them both over in case they may have been scratched or anything, and thankfully all is well. I don't want cats near them again though. Any suggestions? I can't always be there with a hose pipe :help:
 
Oh no! I take it your pigs are kept outside?
I wouldn't take the risk with cat repellent in case your pigs were to come in contact with it. The RSPCA recommended using orange peel around the designated area to shoo the pesky cats off ;)
 
Chief Guinea Pig said:
Oh no! I take it your pigs are kept outside?
I wouldn't take the risk with cat repellent in case your pigs were to come in contact with it. The RSPCA recommended using orange peel around the designated area to shoo the pesky cats off ;)
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Yes they are outside in a hutch, in a summer house. I left one of the summer house doors open to give them some air, as it can get quite warm in there otherwise and when I came out the cat was there and one of the hutch doors was ajar so the cat had worked out the bolt. Luckily my pigs went and hid on the top tier in their nest area and the cat wasn't able to get up there, but I felt awful, I seriously would not have thought a cat would be able to work out a bolt!

Anyway, orange peel sounds like a plan, but I don't eat oranges :lol!: I'm sure someone I know will eat them for me :D
 
Grabbipig said:
Yes they are outside in a hutch, in a summer house. I left one of the summer house doors open to give them some air, as it can get quite warm in there otherwise and when I came out the cat was there and one of the hutch doors was ajar so the cat had worked out the bolt. Luckily my pigs went and hid on the top tier in their nest area and the cat wasn't able to get up there, but I felt awful, I seriously would not have thought a cat would be able to work out a bolt!

Anyway, orange peel sounds like a plan, but I don't eat oranges :lol!: I'm sure someone I know will eat them for me :D
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Clever pussy...
Lol!
 
Yes but you could have it as an interior door and keep the other door too. So they would be cosy at night. Kind of like a fly curtain that we put on house doors.
 
Julie M said:
Can you get a mesh screen made for the door of the summer house? It would keep the cats out and allow the air to circulate.
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That is a fabulous idea Julie! I'm thinking of trying one of those made for play pens for babies and see it the elastic will stretch over my cage.
 
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