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i have a problem with my youngest son and the MRs!

as it is cold at the moment, they are in the only place where there is space indoors for them, by the downstairs toilet! my youngest son goes to the toilet and then stands watching the piggies.

The past few days though he has started putting his fingers in through the bars and one of them has been nipping him, (not drawing blood) i know it is only the piggy seeing if it is food, but this has happened 3 times already, and as i have said previously my husband isnt too keen on them as it is! despite me telling my son each time that he shouldn't put his fingers in the cage and why, he is still doing it!

we also have the problem that someone has been coming into my back garden overnight and opening the hutch! we have put a lock on the hutch now but someone has slightly bent in the mesh on the hutch. Luckily they are inside so they haven't been bothered by it. i am dreading when the weather warms up as i don't want them going outside when someone is coming into my garden.
this has also happened to my neighbour's hutch!
 
I'm not sure about the son bit, but is there anyway you could lock up your garden ? or maybe even stay up and have a peep and see if you can catch them in the act ?
If it persist's maybe you should consider informing the local authorities, it's trespassing and endangering animals, if they were in there of course !
 
When it's time to put them outside, I'd put them in a shed. Rig up some security lights, put up some CCTV signs (often enough to deter) and you can also get shed alarms. Obviously you can also lock it! It could well be an animal to be honest - foxes have been known to open hutches using the latches!

As for your son - as harsh as it sounds - I'd let him get bitten! He won't do it again then!
 
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i have got my suspicions about who is doing it, but it is proving it! my back garden is quite secure with conifer trees all around it, the people i believe are doing it are children and have a history of coming into my garden. we ended up having to put up a fence on top of our wall between properties. we are going to be investing in cctv after christmas so we will catch them then report them to the police!
 
Amanda1801 said:
When it's time to put them outside, I'd put them in a shed. Rig up some security lights, put up some CCTV signs (often enough to deter) and you can also get shed alarms. Obviously you can also lock it! It could well be an animal to be honest - foxes have been known to open hutches using the latches!

As for your son - as harsh as it sounds - I'd let him get bitten! He won't do it again then!
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we have a shed but it is full of all sorts of things. we do have a light out the back but we have to change the bulb in it.

i dont think it would be a fox as my neighbour had the same thing happen to him, his rabbit and guinea pig are outside, they were both fine.


i know that i should let my son learn the hard way, but i know that if one of the piggies bit him and drew blood, my husband would insist i got rid of them :(
 
Hard as it is to hear, if he keeps poking his finger in the cage he will keep getting bitten. Theres nothing you can do about that. It will also be teaching the piggies that its acceptable to bite.

I'm not sure how old your son is, but could you not insist he uses another toilet?
 
my son is 3. we do take him to the toilet as often as we can but if he goes off and we are busy he will go to the toilet himself. the other toilet is upstairs but i dont like him going down the stairs by himself after my older son fell down the stairs a while back, i freeze when i see him aproaching the stairs!
 
Ah, (I was thinking more like 5, where tis easier to do such things)

Without knowing your house i cant really suggest anything else, accept maybe reward for him not putting his fingers in the cage. Maybe let him give the piggies a piece of veg if hes good with them, (and give him a sticker at the same time) So i assosiates being good with the piggies as a nice thing.

Sorry I'm not more help.
 
Do you have any way of raising the piggies out the wee ones reach? or covering the side where he puts his finger through? Probably stating the obvious but sometimes the simple things get over looked :-)

and as for the hutch being opened thats just cruel pow-pow
 
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