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!!!Please Help, Possible Jaw Injury!!!!

Corinne Bjornaas

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Hello, My tegu Kitty and I am a bit of an incident. I took her outside to get some sun, she got away from me and had to try to get her out of a bush for about an hour. When I did catch her I put one hand on her shoulders and one hand on her back legs. Due to some adrenaline I think I may have been pushing down kind of hard. I then put her in a pillow case and let he back into her enclosure. I did however notice that her jaw was a little ****-eyed. It looks to me something has happened to her jaw and is now slung over to the side, not much but I can see it, she does still flick her tongue and she did bite me so I am thinking she isn't having a problem moving it. I will be taking her to the vet as soon as I can, but I was wondering if anyone has seen this kind of injury or if it is common to see their jaws temporarily slung to the side and maybe fixed with a yawn or something? I am extremely worried can anyone give me some insight to what happened and let me know if anything like this has happened to you????
 

Walter1

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Ye Gods. Hope she'll be alright. Vet visit is good call. Hard to tell on severity. New one for me. Tongue-flicking good sign.
 

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