Pic is just pet tax, not related 😉
Our mini rex, Mochi, often has big eye boogers, the white ones directly on the eye. She's a little chaos machine and does well with being manhandled, so I usually carefully cleaned them with a wet Qtip and didn't think much of it. My partner and I used to assume she gets seed husk skins or something similar in her eye while eating and the boogers develop around it because of the way they look. (Like a cucumber seed sorta)
Today I noticed it on her again. It was on the eyelid, so I just held her down and removed it. It was surprisingly large, I had to pull it out of her eye carefully and had a weird consistency. Sorta like pus, but it definitely wasn't pus, it was white and didn't smell, plus she's perfectly healthy, literally nothing unusual about her eye, skin, or behavior. So this is less a "is she sick" type post, I looked it up already and none of the listed issues seem likely. (Teeth is always a possibility, but they get plenty of good hay and sticks, plus their houses are wood, so she chews plenty.)
I was more curious why this happens. Her husbun almost never has boogers, but she also licks his eyes pretty regularly, so it's possible he's just a lazy groomer. But this big? Could she have gotten fur in her eye because it's shedding season? Do bunnies just sometimes develop big boogers like that in your experiences?
by Mavikiu