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Yesterday morning I (well the dog) spotted two guinea pigs on the local park. I managed to catch one, but the other eluded me and is now in residence under someone's shed/garage. According to the neighbour the people are on holiday so I can't go looking round there garden.
I've been over a few times and I've just spotted it's still there but has gone well under the shed. So what do I need to coax it out and catch it so it can be reunited its little friend, who is clearly missing it?
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There's just over an inch of room in the gap it's in so a big scary dog isn't likely to fit.
I need see something to tempt it out first and then trap it...
Food they're greedy little bastards.
Maybe use the other guinea pig in a cage?
Is there any type of food they are particularly partial to Drac? There's lots of greenery so it needs be pretty tempting.
Carrots
Tomatoes
Bregante, that looks like just the ticket.
Tomato seems to be s theme so I will try it out on the captive first.
Now to find a long thin box.
My posh friend used to give his organic Italian curly kale. Went mental for it
A guy in our village had two escape into his elderly mothers garden. They went wild have since bred and now there are loads livings wild in the garden, they have been there for four years now. Bizarre
I know someone with a colony of them that live in their (and their neighbours) garden. They've been going for ten years. Leave them to it.
do the proper thing and call the rspca
I've had a lot of guinea pigs. I agree, if you're concerned that it's going to freeze / starve / get eaten then the RSPCA is the way forward. They are greedy but they are timid and they are stubborn. I could wait all day with a bit of a carrot or grape or banana or cucumber (in my experience their four favourite food stuffs - cucumber is like guinea pig cocaine) trying to get one of mine out from under my sideboard and they'd out wait me. Their favourite all time food is grass and I'm guessing if they are in a garden you won't have anything more tempting to offer them. I always found a bit of broom handle action the only way ...
Basil is like crack cocaine to Guinea Pigs.
My two would literally trample over each other to get at a big bunch. Try tempting it out with that. It might be difficult though. Their default option is to cower and hide though so it may be tricky.
Or alternatively call the RSPCA before a cat gets it
As above kale is guinea pig crack, only trumped by parsley.
please tell me you've called the rspca and not left it alone to get eaten by a fox/die of hypothermia