Baby GP escaped into garden

[ItHasANiceRingWhenYouLaugh]

[sad We just adopted two baby guinea pigs (11 weeks) and one escaped into our enclosed garden this morning about 2 hours ago. We can't find her and I'm not sure how to find her as there are a lot of bushes for her to hide under.

I've put out a cage full of hay that she knows and will hopefully return to. I imagine she is either having fun eating fresh grass and exploring, or terrified and missing her sister.

Any tips? Am also calling the breeder later to see what she says.

[sanfairyanne]

can you put the other gp out, in the top of an indoor cage for instance, if you don't have a run? she might come out to see her and then you can catch her

[ItHasANiceRingWhenYouLaugh]

The other two (sister and older GP who seems to be acting as mum) are currently in the outdoor run but wouldn't be visible from outside. Could bring out the indoor cage so the lost one can see the others, good idea.

I feel awful about this.

[ItHasANiceRingWhenYouLaugh]

Found her. She was almost invisible.

[ItHasANiceRingWhenYouLaugh]

Found her. She was almost invisible.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Relief that you found her.

They can be fast on their feet and (as you were probably frantically worrying about whether she'd get eaten by something) very vunerable.

How did she manage to escape? You need to suss out and prevent it (because hopefully her adventures have scared her, but you never know....)

Our two new girls are very flighty still - we used to put the lardy boars in their travel cage then lift them into the run through the door in the roof.
With the sows, I put their closed travel box into the side door of the run then make my DD climb inside to open the box.
Mine would be away like lightning

Give her a hard stare and send her to the corner to think about the stress and the 10 years she's taken off you.

[ItHasANiceRingWhenYouLaugh]

Yes, I think the secret is not to try to move the run while they are in it . Kinda obvious in retrospect.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

YY - the little beggers will see the escape route and wahay.

At least you know if it's the moving and there isn't a vunerable area then they're safe. (In our garden we have some uneven areas, so to get the run level takes some twisting about. I peg it down with tent pegs)

[sanfairyanne]

yay
glad she is back

mine are sweltering atm. keep moving thr run into shade and on damp grass

toooooooo hot

[ItHasANiceRingWhenYouLaugh]

Can you believe I did it again but because of not shutting the transport cage correctly. Took ages again. Bloody rodents.

[FernieB]

Glad they're safe. I confess I do move our run with our very lardy boys in it but only because they don't move much. They will generally walk along with their run as I move it. I wouldn't do it when they were little.

I recently invested £1 in a cat litter tray and now use that to transport them outside. I can fit both boys, their food bowl and water bottle in it. They get very excited when they see the tray now.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Lardy boar GP3 would dig his claws in and chatter his teeth if I tried to move him in the run