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Today I was in my bedroom and I glanced out my window and because my room faces the back garden I could see my piggies in the run and what i saw was black cat there clawing at the mesh of the run I ran straight down to the garden and scared it off, but thankfully it didn't make any damage to the mesh of the run but could it have done if I didn't notice? have any of you ever had any cats coming after your pigs and are my piggies safe from cats when they are alone outside in the run? ?/
 
We have a cat of our own who has never harmed the pigs, but I wouldn't trust them alone with a strange cat (or even leave them alone with Murdock for that matter). He is very curious about them, but just likes to sit and watch what they're up to.

Although a guinea pig is quite large for a cat to kill, they could potentially do some damage wiht their claws

I'd be careful hun x
 
Our neighbors cats have been caught pawing at them through the mesh of the run before. I do think the mesh itself is strong enough to with hold a cat, but check where it is attached to the frame (if its a wood and wire one) occasionally to make sure it's still all secure.

Our own cat never bothered them because i tihnk he realised they were part of the family, as he acossiated them with the run and the hutch. If he saw one running free however i doubt that he would have left it alone, he was a big cat though and had brought home wild rabbits multiple times!
 
zombieprincess said:
Our neighbors cats have been caught pawing at them through the mesh of the run before. I do think the mesh itself is strong enough to with hold a cat, but check where it is attached to the frame (if its a wood and wire one) occasionally to make sure it's still all secure.

Our own cat never bothered them because i tihnk he realised they were part of the family, as he acossiated them with the run and the hutch. If he saw one running free however i doubt that he would have left it alone, he was a big cat though and had brought home wild rabbits multiple times!
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awwwww:(

were they dead or alive?
 
As long as the run is fairly strong and has a roof it should be fine around cats, but maybe not dogs or foxes.

My hutches and runs have metal bars as opposed to wire mesh, and the cats can't get their paws through far, kittens can get their legs in but they won't really harm the pigs, they love them anyway. :) We have 6 cats and they've never been able to harm the guinea pigs, who live outdoors all day/night.

My cats are really used to the guinea pigs and don't really bother with them, but then stray cats see them they do try to get in to them, but they can't.

Oh also make sure the doors of hutches and runs are securely closed because we had a rabbit escape once, and I think a stray cat that was around (or one of mine) must have let him out, cos I don't think he could have opened the hutch himself. We had only had him for two days so he wouldn't come back, so after chasing him for ages in the dark (and he is black!), I just went inside and watched him from the conservatory, and he went back into the hutch himself! It was scary though with the stray cat prowling around at the time, my cats were all inside with me.
 
We have 3 cats, Jess & Mouse -cant be bothered they look and then walk off, Fluff the boy will sit and watch but he has never attempted to touch them, he often sleeps on their blankets when the pigs are having floor time and he is the hunter in the family. When the girls are in the garden they are always supervised but on the odd occasion a stray has come into the garden they have only ever been watched but the girls do wander over to the wire and will watch the cats.
 
Well my run is a 4ft wooden one so very strong we put chicken wire around the doors so my little brother cannot open it too :) so it's very strong but it just worried me that that this cat was trying to get in to it and it looked like it wanted to pounce on them :{ I was just wondering. Also we have no foxes where I live because we live very near a main road. And my friends dog did come over and he was a very big Rottweiler and he just sat and watched them run around in the run :)p he's harmless
 
Sounds like your run will definitely be strong enough to keep cats out. :)
 
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