Runaway rodent back in the pen after 5 months eluding capture | 24CA News

After a whole bunch of tries, Paul Matheson lastly caught a bit brown guinea pig that wiggled out of the grip of a customer on the Brudenell Miniatures Barnyard Zoo in Montague, P.E.I., 5 months in the past.

In the autumn, he may see it three or 4 occasions a day, hanging with the horses or cavorting with the cats. 

“It’d be hiding underneath different sheds and buildings and out in the field and you’d go and try to catch it and it’d just be gone,” Matheson stated.

The guinea pig managed to seek out shelter throughout post-tropical storm Fiona. When the chilly climate got here, she would disappear for a couple of days at a time. 

“You’d figure something got ahold her or she may have passed away.”

But Matheson at all times stored his internet close by, simply in case. He estimates he tried a whole bunch of occasions to catch her.

“I didn’t kind of write her off,” he stated. “If I had friends over, if we’d seen her we’d try and get her wrangled up but could never actually catch her.”

I used to be fairly shocked that she truly survived.— Paul Matheson

Then, on Thursday, the guinea pig lastly slipped up. The get together was over.

“She was running around playing with the cats and she ran down into the tunnel that the rabbits had made and went into the rabbit pen and I went and grabbed my net and, sure enough, she ended up going into the little shelter that the rabbits had.”

The guinea pig, who was solely 4 weeks outdated when she escaped, is now secure and heat contained in the barn with the remainder of the animals. 

Matheson is now having a contest on Facebook to call the runaway rodent.

“It’s nice to have her in, and don’t have to keep leaving feed for her outside every day,” Matheson stated. “I was pretty surprised that she actually survived.”