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I'm very new to pigs and this site. I'll skip the details (I'm partially a victim of an uneducated pet store clerk though I take some responsibility), but my situation is now I have two baby pigs in a 20 x 40 store bought cage. After getting some very good advice on this site, I know I need to plan and build a new safe cage. I was anxious to get our babies some serious floor time since they are so restricted and saw everyone talking about the grids from Target and Bed, Bath & Beyond. I'm generally not dense, however for some reason it never occured to me they would get their head stuck in one of the squares! I bought the cube set from BB&B, put it together to form a large rectangle and one of my little ones got her head stuck within 10 minutes last night! She was stuck pretty good, but with some gentle manuevering of both her and the piece of cage, I was able to extract her without injury. I felt horrible, and extremely stupid. If what the pet store had told me is correct (which is doubtful) they are currently about 15-16 weeks old.

I am fortunate I have a carpeted sink area that is 5 x 6 that opens to my bedroom. I closed the door to the shower/toilet area, put an ironing board sideways across the 3' opening and tried that this evening. I had seen one of our pigs, Daisy, do that crazy jump which I have been informed is popcorning a few times, but after 30 minutes of having all that space she was popcorning all over the place (absolutely hysterical) and our very shy pig Petunia ventured out and nosed around as well for the vegies we scattered around. They were able to spend the entire evening (supervised) in their makeshift play pen. I'm going to do this every night until I get a new cage.

I'm posting this in the hopes that any new folks out there see this and make darn sure their pigs won't get stuck like mine did. I may have misunderstood and bought the wrong product, but I'm very leary of these things now!