Nearly lost a pig yesterday :(

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Yesterday I had my boys out in their lovely new run. It is a galvinised metal run and it has 4 or 5 different doors on it for some reason.

They were out all day, I was working upstairs in my office and I glanced out every so often to see if they were still there. At about 6pm I went out to put them away in the hutch, and I was greeted by the sight of Jack sitting in the middle of the lawn, 6 feet outside the run ?/?/?/

I scooped him up no problem and put him in the hutch, then spent about half an hour trying to work out how he had escaped. I couldn't figure it out at all - until a found a small door I had forgotten to shut properly :red

I feel awful now, they were out there all day so if they had been a bit more adventurous, they could have been out of the door and miles away 8...
 
Heavens, you were lucky. No wandering cats or anything else too. I'm so glad the adventure ended well for your piggie!
 
It gives you the heebeejeebies, doesn't it? My sincerest sympathies!

However, if Jack is well bonded, he will try to get back in with his friends as soon as the adventure pales - provided he knows how! And, of course, one never knows if he gets frightened out of his wits or caught by a cat.

Been there and have got THAT t-shirt in several colours...

The funniest incident was when a two day old baby managed to squeeze through the horizontal bars of the cage top within 10 mins of being on the lawn. Thankfully, they don't run yet at that age! Back in with mummy it went, and straight back to the bars... Its sibling caught on to the game, but tried the tighter vertical bars. I was grateful when the "milk bar" opened and they went to sleep afterwards!

Big relief that on the next day they'd grown too big for the big escape!
 
What a worry! This is my biggest fear. My office space upstairs overlooks the garden so I can keep a check but I'm constantly up and down just incase! I have a couple of escape artists and when the rabbits are out too it can be chaos!

Glad all was ok, and lovely to see you back here. x
 
i have had that before, by the sound of it i have the same run, mine got out of a door i had not closed. I had the neighbour looking in his garden as i couldn't find her in mine. We back onto nothing really but trees and fields, i was so scared she had got out there as that would have been it, luckyily she was sat under a hutch!
 
My biggest fear also! :(

Lucky you that your piggy didn't wander too far away and you were able to catch him before he darted away or played games with you!

I only leave mine in the run when I am home or my family are in charge to keep an eye on them.

He was a naughty little piggy escaping like that! Little tinker! :))
 
I think he must have got out just minutes before I reached him. I was going to scream when I saw him out of the run but I managed to keep my head and scoop him up quietly rather than frighten him and have him run.

I have had them out again today and double checked all the doors, and they have been fine.

I would have felt awful if he had got lost. He and his brother Charlie are about 2 1/2 and have always been together, it would be awful to lose one of them. Not to mention that Jack belongs to my son (Charlie is my daughter's) and he would be distraught, and I would have felt just awful.
 
i remember when i had my first two guinea pigs, when i was around nine or ten,
i was getting them out of their run to take them back to their hutch, and my cousin was there.
i clearly said to him that when i lifted the side of the run up and picked one of the pigs up, he needed to pick up the other one or it'd run away and i couldn't carry two comfortably. he said yes, he understood... and of course when i lifted the run up he stood there like a moron, ignoring me asking him to pick her up.
she headed straight towards a gap in the fence, on the other side of which was a two foot drop and a very vicious dog. i've never been so scared in my life, managed to pick her up one-handed when she was about an inch away from the gap, and hold the two of them against my chest, which was very uncomfortable.
so needless to say i was pretty mad at my dumb cousin >_> i swear he used to do exactly the opposite of what people told him on purpose.
 
OMG i'm so happy it turned out ok, lucky he was happy to just sit and munch i wonder if he was saying to the others ......look at me i got even more grass than you guys :)):))
 
What you need to do in that situation when a guinea pig has escaped is not to chase them but put down boxes or tunnels for them to climb into and then trap them!

Worrying situation at the time though! :(
 
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