Reply to your “how messy can this get” guinea pig:
You having to stand with a swab marked every half centimeter, sticking up their nose, and wiping it on a test area to show how wet it is father and farther into their nose.
And of course, to get your data you have to swirl the swab around their nostrils. Which are not only filled with mess, but especially sensitive. So every touch makes their nose scrunch and tickle before sneezing onto you.
And you just have to delicately wipe up the amount of mess for further data as they apologize and describe in detail how tickly your actions make them feel.
the way i'm speechless and giggling bc YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES YES all of this YES and when they do try to describe it, their nostrils run and flare even more and they start to hitch and!- They sneeze messily onto you again just more data, the more the merrier right?
