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Got 3 new baby piggies yesterday and let them in the run for the first time.
The run has no doors and you have to lift it up to get the piggies out.
It started raining so I asked my OH to lift up the run and I would get the piggies. Snap and Pop escaped. My Garden backs onto the railway line and theres nothing to stop them getting out. Snap went into the overgrown thorn bushes and Pop under the shed. We rescued Snap first couldnt catch him as they are new they are very skitty. got the fish net but that didnt work because it was too overgrown to get the net in.
So I decided to stay very still untill he came near me and grabed him on the second attempt.
By this time it was poring down, I went inside to put on my wellies and was going through the nettles and bushes and couldnt see him anywhere. Looked under the shed and he wasnt there either. Went into the neighbours gardens. Looked inside the shed and my oh stamped inside the shed to see if he would come running out. After 3 hours I had given up, My oh said that he had run away and would have been miles away. I was soo upset as it was all my fault.
I was just walkin into the house when I looked behind me and saw Pops leg under the shed! I couldnt beleive it! Evey time I tried to go near the shed he ran back under. So I put some food by the shed and sat next to him. Each time he kept sticking his nose out but every time I made the slighest movement he went back under and I would have to wait 10 mins for him to get near me again. ALso each time a train went past he was scared. After a while he came completly out, I tried to net him but missed.
They we decided to put some wood behind him and some wooded posts either side of him I reached in with my hand and grabed his back end.
They are all reunittedd now after 4 hours apart!
I was soo happy, wet and muddy! I really thought I had lost him and had given up. He wouldnt have lasted the night as we have foxex in our garden.
Im going to get oh to make a door for the run so I dont have to lift it up.
Sorry for the long post im feeling really emotional and happy
The run has no doors and you have to lift it up to get the piggies out.
It started raining so I asked my OH to lift up the run and I would get the piggies. Snap and Pop escaped. My Garden backs onto the railway line and theres nothing to stop them getting out. Snap went into the overgrown thorn bushes and Pop under the shed. We rescued Snap first couldnt catch him as they are new they are very skitty. got the fish net but that didnt work because it was too overgrown to get the net in.
So I decided to stay very still untill he came near me and grabed him on the second attempt.
By this time it was poring down, I went inside to put on my wellies and was going through the nettles and bushes and couldnt see him anywhere. Looked under the shed and he wasnt there either. Went into the neighbours gardens. Looked inside the shed and my oh stamped inside the shed to see if he would come running out. After 3 hours I had given up, My oh said that he had run away and would have been miles away. I was soo upset as it was all my fault.
I was just walkin into the house when I looked behind me and saw Pops leg under the shed! I couldnt beleive it! Evey time I tried to go near the shed he ran back under. So I put some food by the shed and sat next to him. Each time he kept sticking his nose out but every time I made the slighest movement he went back under and I would have to wait 10 mins for him to get near me again. ALso each time a train went past he was scared. After a while he came completly out, I tried to net him but missed.
They we decided to put some wood behind him and some wooded posts either side of him I reached in with my hand and grabed his back end.
They are all reunittedd now after 4 hours apart!
I was soo happy, wet and muddy! I really thought I had lost him and had given up. He wouldnt have lasted the night as we have foxex in our garden.
Im going to get oh to make a door for the run so I dont have to lift it up.
Sorry for the long post im feeling really emotional and happy