So you’re gonna have to have guinea pigs for the rest of your life!! **** me! Just get the bain a goldfish!!
Apparently there's help available when the situation arises, got this from the first article I clicked on a Google search... Guinea pigs are quite curious and inquisitive in nature, but they are timid explorers. They get very attached to their owners and partners. If something does happen to their partner, then owners need to find another one — and that’s not easy (for the humans as well as the guinea pigs). This is why Swiss animal lover Priska Küng runs a kind of matchmaking agency — for lonely guinea pigs.