Wilder than life

Category: Miscellaneous | Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:18 am

The garden sees it's expected quota of visiting furry folk...squirrels, voles and a now (I hope) demised rat. But guinea pigs?
Yesterday confirmed my suspicions that 'something' light brown was fleetingly visible under the shrubs at the back fence. I'd spotted this before a few days ago, but from a distance I couldn't see what it was - maybe someone's small cat.
Then yesterday I was wandering down there and sunbathing under the bushes were two guinea pigs. Big fellows too.
Where they've come from I've no idea, but upon closer inspection I can see that they've burrowed in under the neighbour's fence, and there's a well defined run leading to under my shed. The shed is on a raised platform, so there's plenty of space underneath for a cosy home.
What to do? If I close off their escape route I might be trapping them in my garden as there's no way of knowing where they are at any time. All I can think of is to put down a humane rat trap and see if I can catch them, and put them in a compound until I know which unlucky kid in the vicinity has lost them.

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trudy wrote on Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:14 am:

I hope you can catch them, certainly don't need them going wild an breeding like wild hogs an dogs are around my neck of the woods. Good luck.

toni wrote on Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:38 pm:

Good luck finding and capturing them.
I would be willing to bet that their appearance in the wild is because they were turned loose when their owner tired of the maintainence involved, rather than an escape from their habitat. Same as with cats and dogs being dumped.