Slightly wet nose

[squeaksandcarrots]

A couple times I've noticed that Penny's right nostril is a little wet. I just tried getting a photo but now it looks like it's dry. She's still acting normal as usual. What could be the cause of this? Should I worry about it?

 

[Wiebke]

A couple times I've noticed that Penny's right nostril is a little wet. I just tried getting a photo but now it looks like it's dry. She's still acting normal as usual. What could be the cause of this? Should I worry about it?

Hi!

No need to worry; guinea pigs sneeze when they have got an irritation up their their nose (like hay dust or a bit of hay). They can also sneeze intentionally a few times a day to clear their nose at the end of a 'piggy wash'.

You need to only worry if your piggy is sneezing regularly many times an hour without this stopping, and it is not the occasional cleaning sneeze and is also not a one-off sneezing fit to work an irritation out of the nostril.

 

[Stella&Twist]

Omg tha

Hi!

No need to worry; guinea pigs sneeze when they have got an irritation up their their nose (like hay dust or a bit of hay). They can also sneeze intentionally a few times a day to clear their nose at the end of a 'piggy wash'.

You need to only worry if your piggy is sneezing regularly many times an hour without this stopping, and it is not the occasional cleaning sneeze and is also not a one-off sneezing fit to work an irritation out of the nostril.

omg thank you so much! This just happened with my piggy and I started going nuts that he had upper respiratory because my last two passed from that but it sounds like it was just a sneezing fit probably from the hay dust