[thehotchik1000]

I know this is a gecko forum but I'm going to sneak him in just this once. Sorry for sort of getting this post off center.

[Riverside Reptiles]

Originally Posted by cliff_f

I know a lot of people think animals can lock jaws when it is absolutely not true. But yeah the wording was a little off and it sounded like you believe they did "lock" their jaws. When I speak up on the forums I try to provide facts, there is just to much bad info and lack of info floating around and I see it everyday I get on here.

I agree with Cliff about the jaw locking in dogs. It's simply a ghetto myth created to make pitbulls seem more intimidating. I think that perhaps that myth and that people often refer to Tokays as "the pitbull of geckos" is perhaps where this new myth of tokays having some magic jaw locking ability is coming from. They do have very strong jaw pressure though. And it certainly can be challenging to open a tokay mouth if it doesn't want to open it. Hopefully your doctor didn't injure your tokay by trying too hard to get it to open it's mouth.

As for there being lack of, or bad information on the forums, that's the unfortunate result of the internet being what it is. When you have information resources that are accessible to the general public, you're going to have some level of information that is simply incorrect. The best thing one can do to help that is to try to provide correct information and hope that readers are smart enough to determine fact from fiction. These days I think that most people are web savvy enough to understand that they should take any information gathered from any forum (or the internet in general for that matter) with a grain of salt.

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Wow guys, thanks for all the replys. Actually I´ve never heard about dogs locking their jaws until the vet told me. Now I don´t know if he actually meant that they lock their jaws or if eh was telling me that they just have strong jaws that won´t open easily if they don´t want to.

Anyway, I didn´t think tokays can do that either. That´s why I came here, to ask you guys. As Holocaustto asked me, I´m hydrating him using fluid-therapy (I have no ideia what´s the name in english, sorry) because he hasn´t eaten anything since I got him, and I strongly think he hasn´t been eaten for a while, even before that. So the vet thought it was better to hydrate him with fluid-therapy injections (does the word SORO makes any sense to you?? Really don´t know the word in english).

And yes, I´m really concerned about him and took him to the vet yesterday. He will be there for the xrays and everything else that eventually needs to be done.

"where his eyes were actualy sucked in to his head" - yep thehotchik1000, that´s what he looks like since he got back form the vet. It appears that he´s forcing his mouth shut all the time, and even though he is stressed due to the vet trips, changing owners, locations, etc.. I don´t see any real reason for him to do that, keep forcing his mouth shut like that.

Well, now all I can do is wait to see what the vet says. I´ll keep you all updated, thanks again for the replys and now I´m absolutely sure that this "locked jaws" is a myth.

Later,
Daniel