guinea pig stuck under my shed

barbaraw19

Mmm problem. My guinea pig has just run under my garden shed.The sheds on concrete blocks and there is so much dense shrubbery surrounding the shed. There is abit of a pit underneath the shed, so basically it can't get it out, its stuck!! Any ideas how to save this poor creature before it dies??

Rhyme

Fish hook in a carrot.

guest

Poison it before it starves to death. A mercy kill is the only real option.

Peace out.

bronte

You may get better help over in the animals and pet issues forum op.

barbaraw19

Serious replies please i love this guinea pig.

peasant

If it got in, it will get out ...eventually. Possibly clear a bit of a path in the least dense shrubbery, tempt it with some food and give it time.

Orange69

If you post up a pic of the shed then maybe we can provide some kind of plan?

I would probably block off all the exits from under the shed, leaving only one exit available..

Then connect a cage to the only exit and then put some food and water in there.. sooner or later he/she will come out into the cage.. Then you need to just block off the exit back under the shed..

Good luck!

Mossy Monk

barbaraw19 wrote: »

Serious replies please i love this guinea pig.

Wrong forum for this then.

leninbenjamin

smoke it out?

monkeyfudge

Whatever you do don't hold it upside down by it's tail or else it's eyeballs will fall out.

Trojan911

Try squirting the area with water from a squirter bottle. It might tempt him to move, or can you get on of them little fishing nets in the area to scoop him up.

humbert

Buy a fox to chase it out.

Jesus Wept

The first thing I'd do is get on After Hours and ask for advice.

Cheeky_gal

barbaraw19 wrote: »

Serious replies please i love this guinea pig.

Serious??? :rolleyes:

My bets are there is no guinnea pig even! Shock, horror.

Jesus Wept

WoW OP, when you can't even pull the wool over wee Cheeky_gal's eyes, you are doing a really bad job!

Cheeky_gal

The-Rigger wrote: »

WoW OP, when you can't even pull the wool over wee Cheeky_gal's eyes, you are doing a really bad job!

My God thats really rude! So uncalled for....

Mind you the dude has a point...

What's going tho, this is the second patronising comment I've recieved in two days, I'm not 5 people!

barbaraw19

Thanks 4 all your help. Ive tried spraying him with a hose, hes now just wet and cold. I rang the ispca and they suggested a mouse trap, but hed be too fat to fit through it. from golf clubs to planks the little fella wont move out from under it. grrr!!!! its been 6 hours now!!! he'd break ur heart

John Mason

jaysis, maybe he is only looking for a bit of peace and quiet, just leave him there, he wil come out he is ready

Jesus Wept

barbaraw19 wrote: »

Thanks 4 all your help. Ive tried spraying him with a hose, hes now just wet and cold. I rang the ispca and they suggested a mouse trap, but hed be too fat to fit through it. from golf clubs to planks the little fella wont move out from under it. grrr!!!! its been 6 hours now!!! he'd break ur heart

eh? lol.

hamsterboy

Hey OP
Piggies will always head into a tunnel of some sort so if you have an old poster tube, wavin pipe etc and present it close to him, he'll most likely shoot into it.

Cheeky_gal

hamsterboy wrote: »

Hey OP
Piggies will always head into a tunnel of some sort so if you have an old poster tube, wavin pipe etc and present it close to him, he'll most likely shoot into it.

Are you serious hamsterboy? lol! OP is clearly joking....well so I really hope so.

Nephew

I know how you are feeling, my last guinea pig got trapped in the deep fat fryer. Poor bastard sure could squeal.

Pj!

Send in a ferret.

Gran Hermano

Sorry to hear your predicament OP, I too love the odd cavy - especially
with peanut or hot sauce.

Here's something I picked up in Peru which you might be interested
in should you get him back:
CUY CHAQTADO
1 guinea pig, de-haired, gutted, and cleaned
1/2 c. flour
1/4 - 1/2 t. ground cumin
salt and black pepper to taste
1/2 c. oil
Pat dry the skin of the guinea pig and rub in the cumin, salt, and pepper. Preheat oil. Dust the carcass with the flour and place it on its back in the oil, turning to cook both sides. Alternately, the guinea pig can be cut and fried in quarters.
Serve with boiled potato or boiled manioc root, and a salad of cut tomatoes and slivered onions bathed in lime juice and a bit of salt.

Random

Nephew wrote: »

I know how you are feeling, my last guinea pig got trapped in the deep fat fryer. Poor bastard sure could squeal.

Love it.

Get the garden hose and force him out!

gyppo

Get a short lenght of plastic piping (something around 4-5" diameter), and place a tiny quantity of crumbs along its lenght. Place one end under the shed, the other into the cage(where they'res plenty of food), and wait....

AlmightyCushion

Dynamite should do it. You might not get him out alive but it should get him out.

Random

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Dynamite should do it. You might not get him out alive but it should get him out.

No.. I think you're onto something there! If you put a sheet of aluminum foil between the pig and the stick then he should* survive.



*untested

Mr. Presentable

Cut a hole in the floor of the shed.

AlmightyCushion

ciaranfo wrote: »

No.. I think you're onto something there! If you put a sheet of aluminum foil between the pig and the stick then he should* survive.



*untested

That should work. If it doesn't at least you don't have to make dinner.

Piste

Aw this thread is so sad, the poor little fella and poor OP Guinea Pigs love food so maybe make a trail as far under the shed as you can manage and perhaps he'll follow the trail out. Try and scoot a dish of water under there too so at least he'll have something to drink in the meantime.

Poor mite must be terrified

Plug

Shoot the bastard with a little pellet gun. it wont kill him but he'll move.

Lizzykins

Same thing happened to us with a hamster a couple of years ago. It went into the wall in the kitchen. It came out eventually after about three days of us worrrying ourselves sick-kids crying etc. We had to cut a hole in the plasterboard and tempt it out with food and water. When it did come out at three in the morning hubby nabbed it!

barbaraw19

Aghhh night is setting in and the poor thing is still under the shed. Its bloody freezing outside. What are his chances would you say?

In response to putting a hole in the shed floor, my parents wont allow me, its an expensive shed.

Funny u should mention cooking guinea pigs. the pet shop on parnell street says the majority of the customers who buy guinea pigs and hamsters are chinese. i cant help but think that the creatures are not kept as household pets by them.

AlmightyCushion

barbaraw19 wrote: »

Funny u should mention cooking guinea pigs. the pet shop on parnell street says the majority of the customers who buy guinea pigs and hamsters are chinese. i cant help but think that the creatures are not kept as household pets by them.

Me neither. If they are buying them in large quantities it's more likely they are building an army to take over the western world.

Orange69

Get a stick, put it under the shed at one end and then pull it along at ground level slowly to the far end of the shed.. This should nudge him out??

I like the tunnel idea also..

You cant leave him in there all night!

Mr. Presentable

barbaraw19 wrote: »

In response to putting a hole in the shed floor, my parents wont allow me, its an expensive shed.

.

**** your parents! Do you love your GP or not?

Pj!

Oh the advantages of virtual pets. Virtually trouble free!

echter

barbaraw19 wrote: »

In response to putting a hole in the shed floor, my parents wont allow me, its an expensive shed.

expensive shed???

Pj!

echter wrote: »

expensive shed???

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055176319

(sorry am bored)

echter

Forky wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055176319

(sorry am bored)

state of that shed, i think that price is more for the land.

poor guinea pig, i hope it doesn't rain

Dr Strange

A bit of chewing-gum on the end of a stick. A mars-bar might do the trick as well.

Harpy

something likthis happened me with my hamster before.. got a nice new small hamster..small enough to infact fit out through the bars in the cage..so when i woke up one morning he was gone..he had gone down a hole in the wall behind my warddrobe..so yea i basically thought yea he's a gonner ill go get me another hamster(id only had him two days ok we hadn't bonded yet so i got over it fast) yea so i get my new hamster and walk into the room and see my other one flying across the floor down the whole again..so he was down there for about a week i put food and bedding out hoping he'd stay and make a bed during the nigth instead he just took the bedding into the whole with him!!(smart hamster i must admit) finally got a friendly mouse trap thing and caught the bugger..in his week away from us he had turned into some monster he hissed at me and everything if u tried to pick him up he'd latch onto ur finger and would not let go..He was so evil, after his adventure we renamed him rambo...
yea well my contribution is to try get a friendly mousr trap amybe a rat trap seen as its a guinea pig(can u get a friendly rat trap eh i dunno)
hopefully u get him out soon.. oh god i hope its not cold out tonight..

tallus

Sorry to hear about the poor GP's predicament, it's not that cold out tonight and even if it does rain, the guinea pig will be sheltered under the shed.
Loving this thread so far (sorry op).

rejkin

ya might wanna watch out for foxes,they will try to get at it when its dark, i used to have a few rabbits and they always did this,best thing to do is close him off with planks so it can only go one way

Terry

A great adventure is waiting for you ahead...

HardyEustace

I'd ring his mobile and see if you couldn't reason with him

sunny2004

use a mini digger and get the local community involved !


Seriously,, here you go , problem solved !!



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echter

how is he holding up???

An Citeog

Preusse wrote: »

A bit of chewing-gum on the end of a stick. A mars-bar might do the trick as well.

Poor little fella will get chewing gum stuck to his coat. A bit of velcro on the end of that stick and you're sorted.

OP, you could place a big sheet of tinfoil under there and use one of those click lighters to shock him out.

Or the food thing, that might be nicer. Don't forget to light a fire under your shed to keep him warm tonight.

bronte

Aw bless op, I hope he's okay, if it makes you feel any better I had a hamster years ago that got loose and went under the floorboards of our house.
Little fecker appeared a few days later a bit dusty but grand all the same!
I hope your guinea pig has a similar adventure... let me know how you get on