Hi all, I have a brother and sister pair of 10.5 week old Nethies, have had them now for 2 weeks.
The boy has had a damp/wet nose since I brought them home. I noticed when I touched it that I had a little spot of wet on my finger.
I took both of them to the vet 2 days ago for a general check up and to talk about desexing etc.
He is an early bloomer and already has balls ready to go, so I just have to get his weight up a bit more so he can get the chop.
They have been separated so we don’t have any accidents!
Anyway, I had the vet listen to their breathing and check noses, and it all sounded clear and she could not see anything issues.
There has been no snot at all, and he has only sneezed once, about a week ago, and I’m pretty sure that was only because he had buried his head in the hay bowl and got it all over his face!
He has very high energy levels, good appetite, drinks plenty, lots of binkying and fun.
When he lays down to relax, he does sometimes have his head down like most other buns I’ve seen, but he does quite often hold his head up too. Not as in head facing the roof or anything, but not head down on the ground like normal relaxing posture.
He is a bit hard to cuddle but I put that down to getting used to humans and also to hormones kicking in.
I am not sure if I am just being super paranoid, but I keep worrying that something must be causing the wet nose.
I have googled and come up with pastuerella (snuffles) but he doesn’t have any symptoms other than the wet nose and possible strange relaxing position.
Does anyone else have a wet nose bun who is healthy and no obvious cause?
Does anyone else have a bun who lays like this?
I am in Australia so it is summer right now, 30-35 degrees Celsius, so am also wondering if perhaps it’s heat related?
Or maybe because Nethies are a bit more of a squished face breed so maybe their nasal passages are more compressed like pug dogs etc?
Thank you!