Wet nose

[Patchwerk]

Hello!  (I hope I’m in the right forum for this.)

So I’ve had my new buns for a little over 2 months now.  They are Holland lops and both are fixed and have had trips to the vet and checked out good and healthy.  I have a girl, Cocoa, and a boy, Bean.

Only issue is that my girl Cocoa often has a wet nose.  I have asked her doctor about this, but she found no issues.  Cocoa’s nose swabs were clean, and while her nose often seems wet, there is no color to the discharge.  She doesn’t sneeze, has great appetite, her eyes aren’t runny, has regular poops,  and lots of energy…  I called her vet about it today since the last time I brought the buns to the vet was for their spay/neuter (6-6-2011) and told her that Cocoa still had a consistantly had a wet nose and, after hearing the details, said there doesn’t seem to be any cause for concern since she’s completely healthy otherwise.

I use carefresh for bedding and the rabbits have water bowls instead of bottles.  I’ve often wondered if she was just getting too eager when drinking and was dipping her face it the water, but I’m just not sure if that’s the case or not.  When I see her lift her face up from drinking, it doesn’t appear to be soaked.  I wonder if her nose is just easily irritated from any sort of dust?  Could it be allergies? 

My previous rabbit would sometimes get a running eye that would come and go… and we couldn’t figure out the cause of that either.  Again, could it be bunny allergies?

Anyway… I’m stumped and was just wondering if anyone ever has ever had this issue or something similar?

[Monkeybun]

It could be allergies. My Smudge is allergic to timothy hay, of all things. She was sneezing, and had a continuously wet nose. But without the timmy hay, now she only sneezes when she shoves her head too far into the hay pile and gets hay dust in it And its only wet now if she drinks water too fast, she tends to splash a bit….

[RabbitPam]

Since you’ve already consulted your vet about it twice, it doesn’t sound like there’s a medical problem to be worried about. I’m betting on the water dish.

You can wipe her nose dry and let her play for a while away from her dishes. Then check and see if her nose is wet. If she hasn’t been anywhere near the water dish and it is, that would eliminate sloppy sipping as the source. I’d then consider allergies.

Does Bean groom her? Maybe he licks her nose.

[Monkeybun]

Ha I am imagining that and its adorable. Nose kisses!

[Patchwerk]

Monkeybun – Aw! Poor Smudge! Well at least she can enjoy other hay, right? Cocoa hardly sneezes at all… perhaps she’s a messy drinker as well, but I’ve never really noticed it before.

RabbitPam – I’ll try and monitor her drinking habits a bit more closely. I haven’t seen any nose licks, haha! He mostly just grooms her head and ears and stuff and vice versa. That would be so cute if that was the case. XD Eskimo kisses taken to another level!

Hopefully she’s just a sloppy drinker, because allergies suck.

[Monkeybun]

Yeah, Smudge adores oat and orchard hay, so she’s fine without the timothy hay

Hope you figure out whats going on with her

[LoveChaCha]

My little Chacha scared me for the same reason! There was no discharge of any kind. I have actually heard her stick her nose into the water bowl.. there was a small splash! Silly bunny.

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