Here are some fun guinea pig world records:
- We previously said that the the longest living guinea pig lived 14 years, 10.5 months. That guinea pig's name was Snowball. We have subsequently learned that there was a guinea pig named Sweetie, who claimed to have lived from October 1996 to July 2014-- a total of 18 years! We don't know if this record has been Guiness-verified, though.
- The long jump record for guinea pigs (as of 2012) was 18.9 inches, held by Truffles:
Here's his award:Good job, Truffles! (image source) - We found a video which seemed to show an even longer guinea pig jump in 2015, although we're unsure if it's Guiness-verified. In this video, Piglet jumps 66 cm (about 26 inches):
- As of 2012, the highest jump by a guinea pig was 7.8 inches (20 cm).
- The fastest 10 meter run by a guinea pig was 8.81 seconds by Flash in 2009.
I wonder if there are any awards that we would qualify for. I don't think either of us can outrun or out-jump these piggies. Maybe if there was a "longest-running awesome blog written by guinea pigs" category?
We think Arwen could probably beat the high jump, since she once jumped about six inches up the side of the cage, and possibly the 10 meter run, too. But the human doesn't want to give her any bad ideas, like trying to jump out of the cage. We don't know why the human thinks this because we're always angels.
ReplyDeleteHumans do have a tendency to worry. Just because we've eaten Calla lillies, shoe laces, and so on doesn't mean we're ALWAYS eating things we shouldn't. We're angels 99% of the time. :-)
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