Nottinghamshire pet Snowball still holds the official Guinness World Record as the oldest ever guinea pig on Earth. The impressive animal lived to be 14 years and 10.5 months old before passing away on February 14, 1979.
Guinea pigs usually live between 4 to 7 years, so Snowball’s owner Margate Wall, of Bingham, was understandably astonished her pet lived for so long. Snowball smashed the previous world record, which belonged to a mere ten-year-old guinea pig in Kent.
A keen animal lover, Mrs Wall also had a 19-year-old African ground pigeon, named Clementine. Clementine set no records, with the world’s oldest bird at the time being a 72-year-old Andean Condor named Kuzya who died in Moscow in 1964.
