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Any experiences?? My Dogo caught a good sow today and after I caught and tied hog the Dogo could barely open his mouth.  All the dogs were hot and he could barely open his mouth enough for his tounge to stick out. I checked it good. Couldn't find any poke's, no broke teeth, jaw is still aligned, feels normal.  His cheek/jaw muscles are huge and hard as a rock. I had to pry his mouth open some so he could breathe.  Any ideas or experiences?

Man that's a tough one. Hope he gets better quick! Whatever the problem is


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I'll keep everyone posted on the outcome. He's eating and drinking so I don't feel it's "life threatning" at the moment. If it's not better by Monday I'll take him to vet. Thanks for a quick response slim

Something  like that happen to my buddies dog it ended up dying. Not sure why but after that hog he was never the same i would get him checked out could have a fracture in his jaw

Can't imagine it's that bad if he is eating and drinking fine

Was training at Mason's pin few years back he had a Dogo cramp up but in the leg. He rubbed it out real hard then put the dog up for the day... figured you might be able to do same thing...

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Dogs are not prone to get tetanus but from what I remember, lock jaw is a symptom.   Highly doubt it's such a thing as tetanus but then again, I've not heard of your perdicument either.      I would treat the muscles same as if the dog was human.   Apply some heat for ten minutes or so to the jaw muscles, then apply inward pressure with your thumb to stretch the muscle out same way a messeure would work out a knot in your muscle ( ten min of this won't be near long enough messeure will work on a knot for a while) and then see if the dog has much better movement of its jaw.   May need to repeat couple times a day if thus is working and doesn't fix it on the initial session.   If this doesn't help, I'd start calling and talking to vets to try to find one who is competent in this area and can solve your problem instead of going to the local vet and have them guess as to the problem and how to solve.

Could be dehydration, that's a common cause for muscle cramps in people. 

Just an update.... It's been over 48hrs and the swelling has went down. He uses his mouth more and seems to feel better. He don't mind shaking his head this evening.  Guess it was just a cramp or pulled muscle.  He shouldn't be dehydrated. This was the 1st hunt in 4-5 months because of deer season. He has a 5gal bucket of water in his kennel as well. Skin of his neck shows no sign of dehydration. I tried to get the wife to go message his jaw muscles but........  I'll try him this weekend if he keeps improving. It's been a weird scenario but looks like it no big deal

I wonder if he pulled a muscle, been sitting up a while. Then back to action on a good hog, may have to get him to stretch before his next hunt!

Just a thought...may be nothing to worry about... But dog could have fractured its jaw. Maybe hairline and not total fracture. Just throwing it out there.

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Thanks for the help guys. I'm leaning towards a very hard strain and a pulled muscle.  Amokabs you are probably right, it's gotta be tough on them straight out of the gate after 4-5 months off.