Guinea Pig World Records

Although she doesn't do it as much anymore given her age and health condition, Buffy used to be quite a jumper. She'd jump up on top of pigloos and the platform on the smaller cage. Thinking about this got me wondering what the world record is for guinea pig jumps, which then got me thinking about guinea pig world records in general.

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. 

If you think you can beat any of these records, you can register at the Guinness website. If you succeed, you'll be immortalized alongside Truffles and the others. (That is, until the next record-breaking guinea pig comes along!)

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?