How old do Guinea Pigs get?

[frank]

Ok this is your chance to brag up your senior gps if you have one older than 2 lets hear about it...... I had one that was 7 a plucky female named Cherokee

 

[Tayz]

I have a guineapig who is 6 years +.. we don't really know how old she is but she is really old...

 

[Glynis]

Well my Dukey boy was 6 years 8 months and 11 days............
but he has a friend in the UK who's turned 8 and another friend in the US who's also turned 8 xx>>>xx>>>

Frank i have heard of a piggie who turned 10, but i can't remember where..........:{

 

[MemberY]

My Lennie is somewhere around 5 I believe, but could be more. He was a rescue so age was unknown. He acts like a grumpy old man and his eyesight seems to be failing too....he is lovely!

 

[Nemo]

Nemo will be five next month - think his birthday is the 9th November if I remember rightly.

 

[mutton chops]

According to WikiAnswers the oldest g.pig was 14
Well we got Bubbleberry from P@H on 18th October 2002, so that makes her at least 6. I think....lol

 

[rw3399]

My sow who died back in June was my oldest. She was 8 years and 3 months

 

[RachelW]

Pauline was at least 6 1/2 years, but I did not know exactly.

 

[frank]

Thanks that is a well documented report.... and 14 oh my

 

[starla]

one of mine got to 7

 

[Tommies Mam]

My oldest was Sophie and she was 5 and half

 

[tinso]

my piggies pinky and perky are allmost 5 they are sisters and the first two guinea pigs i got which started my addiction

 

[frank]

Looks like 14 years is the top life expectancy of a piggy...... and pet stores say they dont live very long Hrump

 

[Netty]

My friend took her pigs to the vets this week and they were talking about how long they live. The vet told her that they have a patient pig who is 10 that was coming in the following day.

 

[spudnik]

Ive got 2 girls Morgan and Lois who are coming upto 7 years old.. both are very happy, and dont seem to showing signs of age, morgan has lost a tiny bit of weight but shes still over 800g and lois is way up there around 1200g lol she has always been a big pig!

 

[Laura-CCC4]

My oldest pig of definite age is 4 and a half, but I have a rescue pig who is believed to be 5-6 years. Just over half of my pigs will be seniors next year; two already are, three will turn 4 next year.

The oldest pig I have personally met was 9 years old.

 

[Black Jack]

I have seen two piggies on another forum who have lived to 16 and 17 years old - and still going strong! I'm staggered! Hopefully my little boar will live so long - hope I will be able to afford his hay on my old age pension!

 

[MemberX]

My eldest are 1 year and 6 months which makes them 21 in guinea years (14 birthdays a year!)

 

[Black Jack]

My eldest are 1 year and 6 months which makes them 21 in guinea years (14 birthdays a year!)

How does that work then? 14 doesn't go into 12 or 52 very conveniently!{:|

 

[MemberX]

How does that work then? 14 doesn't go into 12 or 52 very conveniently!{:|

I know haha I read it on Guinea Lynx it must be around 14 though if you think that the average guinea lives 5 years well 14x5 is 70 works out about right. And dogs is 7 years isn't it so smaller animals would be more birthdays a year. Thats my reckoning to believing it.

Oh I dunno I hate maths.

 

[cuddles]

Meggy was 7 and died earlier this year

 

[Vic]

I had my first guinea pig - snowy when I turned 2 and he finally joined the great paddock in the sky after my 16th birthday!