We have had Guinea pigs for many years. We found our original three in the mountain reservation above our house when we were out walking our dog at the time, Deuce. someone had just dumped them in the woods.
Right now we only have the one, a male tri colored abby named Fluffy Buckley. He is three. Our last one died suddenly of unknown causes at only four years of age, but the one before that, Smudge, lived to be eight.