The great escape

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Talk about panic stations!

I got home from work earlier to find my daughter rushing out from the back garden telling me I wasn't allowed to go that way. She was reluctant to tell me why but after she was subjected to my motherly 'glare' for a few moments :D she admitted to me that she had been filling up the piggies food, water and hay as a surprise so that I didn't have to do it when I got home, but that Marshmallow had taken the opportunity for a run and performed a running jump out of the hutch!

I raced around the back to find my hubby on his belly with his arm under the hutch and a makeshift fence erected around the places where the fugitive piggie could escape into the road or forest behind our house, poor Marhsmallow was terrified and had curled up into a little fluffy ball in the furthest corner underneath the hutch and he wasn't budging. Apparently they had been trying to retrieve him for an hour. We got him out a few minutes after I arrived as it was easier for me to tempt him out with some of his favourite Kale and he is now firmly back in his cell..*ahem*, I mean hutch ;) with his friend Cookie.

It gave me a right fright at the time but I can imangine it from Marshmallows point of view

"Freedom, Yay!...eeeek! Freedom is cold and wet, retreat, retreat!...argh, can't get back...hide!"

I'm thinking of changing his name to Ronnie Biggs, lol
 
Naughty marshmallow! I bet he wont be trying that again, after realising that freedom isnt what he imagined.

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yes piggies an be sooooooo naughty:)p

bet he wont do it again he know's where its warm & safe xx
 
Poor Marshmallow - I don't think that his appetite for the wide big world has survived this adventure.

I always have found it easier to let a piggy sort out itself and come back - after all they do want to be back with their friend. Chasing it just reinforces the flight instinct.

It's an experience that leaves you shaken!
 
Wiebke said:
I always have found it easier to let a piggy sort out itself and come back - after all they do want to be back with their friend. Chasing it just reinforces the flight instinct.
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Unfortunatly the fence around our garden is a wire mesh with very big holes that he could have easily squeezed through, one side leads to a road and the other leads to woodland (rented acommodation so we're not allowed to put anything decent up apparently). He could have got squished or lost. :(

I don't think he'll be repeating his adventure any time soon and I made sure they got plenty of time in their runs this evening just incase he was trying to tell me something :)

I don;t know who's heart was pitter-pattering faster, his or mine!lol
 
Oh dear. That may be the last time your daughter tries to help you! She must have been worried sick. Kudos to your OH for his efforts but I guess a guinea knows the hand that feeds him kale.
 
Poor Marshmallow! And your poor daughter too, bless her for trying to help :)

Glad he managed to take refuge and is now safely back home :)
 
Aww, bless your daughter for trying to be helpful.
What a naughty piggy! Sounds like he had quite the fright, though. Poor baby :(
 
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