What are the reasons why dogs have dry noses and moist noses?

The nose is the most intuitive organ to measure whether the dog's body temperature is normal. A normal dog's nose should be moist and cold.

Why the dog's nose is moist? The sensitive sense of smell is very important for the dog. If the inhaled air is moist, the dog will feel the smell more easily. There are many tiny particles floating in the air, which are the source of the odor and will enter the nose with breathing. To smell the air, the tiny particles that make up these odors will be adsorbed on the mucosa in the nostrils. If the mucosa is moist, tiny particles will be more likely to adsorb on it. Therefore, the dog's nose will naturally secrete some water vapor to make the nose moist. When the weather is hot, they will often use their tongue to wet their noses to keep them moist.

Reasons for dry nose:

[Normal situation]

When you are asleep: The dog's metabolism is slow when it is asleep, just woke up, or when it is still for a long time, so the nose will become dry.

【Poor health】

Stress reaction

The dog's living environment changes suddenly or has long-term transportation, and the nose may be dry when the metabolism is slow.

If the dog's nose is dry due to this reason, you need to let the dog drink more water, and add some nutrient solution to increase immunity and reduce stress response.

Sickness

When the dog has pathological symptoms, the nose will also become dry. Distemper can cause the dog's nose to become dry and keratinize. Long-term illness, dehydration, electrolyte disorders, high fever and other slow metabolism will also become dry.

So in order to allow dogs to receive timely treatment, once owners find abnormalities in their dry noses and depression in their dogs, they should take their dog to see a doctor as soon as possible.