What are your local animal threats to your piggies?

[karonus]

We live right next to a nature reserve in Dudley, so in advance of the Garden Project - (Plans b to z) I thought I should check out what local "Urban" predators I need to make the garden safe from, other than than the local cat. So accordingly googled and found the following list that might find our girls tasty.

Fox
Badger
Buzzard
Sparrow Hawk
Kestrel

So it will be a covered run for the garden, not the oone we use for the caravan where I act as warden.

(as an aside we usually have 2 -3 nesting pairs of house sparrows in the eaves which are apparently now scarce in the Midlands)

 

[Wiebke]

Rats, cats, potentially a fox, small birds of prey and potentially seagulls and crows. Our garden adjoins a school field and then open countryside, but it is fenced in.

We also have a flock of house sparrows living in the shrubs and hedges around our semis!

 

[Bobby&Frankie]

I think my only threat really is my dog as she's still not used to the piggies - few weeks and she'll leave them alone. I know i used to have a family of foxes but that was around 10 years ago and i only remember it as my cat used to chase them out of the garden lol.
With my piggies being in a coop they're also being locked in at night and when i can confirm there aren't foxes in the area i may leave the door open in summer

 

[kamii]

Foxes are my worst. I live in a fairly residential area and yet i see them allll the time. They killed 3 of my piggies when I was little
Also, Sparrowhawks. I've had them in the garden, too, but they're not such a threat as foxes

 

[*Nibbles&Nugget*]

We have a terrible time with a couple of magpies. They're just evil! Also have cats and foxes. Would you consider rats and mice predators, cos we had problems with them in the past. Just have to remember to seal all the piggy stuff in crates and boxes.

Amy
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[Hc1]

Cats
Seagulls
and a very large black bird ?crow who resides on my neighbours shed roof and torments their German Shepherd

And I suppose, come to that, the German Shepherd and the 2 gorgeous little Jackadoodles next door might find Jack and Daniel tasty. :...

 

[Doeylicious]

RATS, I have had a horrific experience with one tonight that has resulted in me now sitting in my lounge surrounded by piggies in various boxes and crates we are meant to be using for moving...I don't even know how we came to get one, evil thing

 

[Hanwombat]

Rats, cats, foxes, corvids and small birds of prey

 

[Lilly]

My yard is a corridor for all sorts of wildlife crossing from one area of the local creek to another area of that same creek. It is a very windy creek and our no-through street sits in one of the creek bends. This not only attracts predators, but also other prey animals, which in turn attracts their predators, who find piggies just as tasty as their normal prey.

So, snakes (both the poisonous and constrictor types), lizards and bush rats have to be guarded against. The other major predator problem is birds. Our local ravens, hawks, kookaburras and noisy minors are known to stalk guinea pigs. And they are always around in abundance. In recent years fire ants hitch-hiking on boats have invaded Brisbane.

And then there's the usual suspects - the neighbourhood dogs and cats.