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1 Tips for avoiding escapes and accidents
2 Tips for luring escaped and hiding piggies back
This is the time of year (in the northern hemisphere at least) when summer tempts us to let the piggies outside.
1 Tips for avoiding escapes and accidents
- Do not let guinea pigs free roam on the lawn. They can have a remarkable turn of speed and disappear before you realise it. They will naturally look for shelter to hide and may not be easily found.
- Remember that guinea pigs are prey animals and local neighbourhood wild life, furry and feathered, will see a snack in a free roaming guinea pig.
- Check your garden for escape points, holes in the fence, gaps in a gate - anywhere a guinea pig could squeeze through. In so far as you can, make the garden secure.
- Keep them safe in a secure run. Check the run to ensure that there is no way the guinea pigs can escape. Do this regularly, not just at the beginning of the season.
- Ensure the run has water, hay and somewhere to hide that is out of the sun.
- Not all piggies like being outside and will prefer to stay in hiding.
- Do not leave them unattended. This does not mean watching them all the time, but don’t go out for the day while the guinea pigs are in a run on the lawn.
- Don't carry new guinea pigs on your arm but in a conveyance to avoid blind escape jumps from a spooked piggy.
2 Tips for luring escaped and hiding piggies back
- Put out a shelter like a pigloo, a fleece, a bag of hay to tempt them home. Use something that smells familiar. Most piggies want to come back to their mates and a loving home. Give them time and space to do that.
- The rustling of a food bag and putting out favourite vegetables may all help attract them home. Dinner time call and noises can be a draw to find their way back.
- Sit in the garden calling them, or just sit quietly and watch but do not hover close to a frightened piggy; that will only make it run away further.
- Remember not to make a rush to grab a piggy if it appears or you will spook it again.
- Sometimes playing guinea pig noises can pique their curiosity.
- If the piggy hasn’t been found by the next day you may want to consider flyers around the local houses and shops.
- Make your piggy want to come back home but NEVER hunt it down when its prey animal instincts are on full alert!
Do not forget - it is much better to take all necessary steps to prevent an escape than to risk losing a beloved guinea pig.
2 Tips for luring escaped and hiding piggies back
This is the time of year (in the northern hemisphere at least) when summer tempts us to let the piggies outside.
1 Tips for avoiding escapes and accidents
- Do not let guinea pigs free roam on the lawn. They can have a remarkable turn of speed and disappear before you realise it. They will naturally look for shelter to hide and may not be easily found.
- Remember that guinea pigs are prey animals and local neighbourhood wild life, furry and feathered, will see a snack in a free roaming guinea pig.
- Check your garden for escape points, holes in the fence, gaps in a gate - anywhere a guinea pig could squeeze through. In so far as you can, make the garden secure.
- Keep them safe in a secure run. Check the run to ensure that there is no way the guinea pigs can escape. Do this regularly, not just at the beginning of the season.
- Ensure the run has water, hay and somewhere to hide that is out of the sun.
- Not all piggies like being outside and will prefer to stay in hiding.
- Do not leave them unattended. This does not mean watching them all the time, but don’t go out for the day while the guinea pigs are in a run on the lawn.
- Don't carry new guinea pigs on your arm but in a conveyance to avoid blind escape jumps from a spooked piggy.
2 Tips for luring escaped and hiding piggies back
- Put out a shelter like a pigloo, a fleece, a bag of hay to tempt them home. Use something that smells familiar. Most piggies want to come back to their mates and a loving home. Give them time and space to do that.
- The rustling of a food bag and putting out favourite vegetables may all help attract them home. Dinner time call and noises can be a draw to find their way back.
- Sit in the garden calling them, or just sit quietly and watch but do not hover close to a frightened piggy; that will only make it run away further.
- Remember not to make a rush to grab a piggy if it appears or you will spook it again.
- Sometimes playing guinea pig noises can pique their curiosity.
- If the piggy hasn’t been found by the next day you may want to consider flyers around the local houses and shops.
- Make your piggy want to come back home but NEVER hunt it down when its prey animal instincts are on full alert!
Do not forget - it is much better to take all necessary steps to prevent an escape than to risk losing a beloved guinea pig.