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Hello fellow GSD community, I am a bit in a loss here. Last Monday my 9 year old GSD took his rabies vaccination. All went fine. On Thursday morning I encountered a lot of saliva in the water, and then I also saw my dog have this "laugh" expression (dropped jaw, showing lower teeth) and I was like, "awww, funny". The aww funny in me stopped in the evening when I realized he kept doing it and the brutal amounts of saliva in the water bowl which I usually change as much as I can daily. I then realized he was unable to close his lower jaw, it is between slightly open and open (either the front part of tongue sticks out or you see the front lower teeth). Thus saliva keeps dripping forward, accumulates on his front lower teeth, and keeps exiting especially during drinking.
To make matters worse, he makes a huge mess drinking, I help him by holding bowl higher or the easiest for him is when he drinks while lying down. As for eating, he is unable to chew, he licks the food in and swallows it as whole, having (took me also a day to realize) having caused probably full stomach, because he could not poop for 30 hours and came whimpering at me in middle of the night, so I thought maybe diarrhea, took him out, he literally ran towards grass and started like a cow eating it. Peeing etc was of no importance, he ate grass for 20 mins. The stool worked later (thankfully), but he can't chew properly anymore, jaw is still dropped. I changed to soft food of course meanwhile.
I went to search for answers, of course I found the:
Trigeminal Neuritis (which I pray that it is, since it auto-heals itself in 2-4 weeks). But what a coincidence this happening 3 days after a rabies vaccine.
Then I searched and searched and searched and people that reported side effects never reported what I encounter, but then I saw one article:
65 ways how rabies vaccination for dogs can harm your dog:
www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com
I read all, for the first time, I found this:
Point 25: Hanging down of the lower Jaw.
This is the first time I read this anywhere. The main side-effect causes from the more "official" vet sites, never mentioned this. However, I read this article with a lot of caution, as the site appears to be a bit towards the "alternative medicine" orientation and somewhat anti-rabies vaccination bias, but it was there. However, it brilliantly described how the rabies vaccination works, so dead rabies virus spreads through the dog, including the brain obviously, which could trigger e neurological reaction making the dog think he has symptoms of rabies (even if he has no rabies), either way, it was a good read as it coincided with many other articles but was much more skeptical regarding the positive outcomes of the vaccination than other sites.
I brought this up with the vets again but at this point I am getting the "never have seen this in my career" / "not normal" / "let's observe another week", etc, etc, basically, all clueless responses. Thus I am here to know if you have experienced, or you know other dogs and friends, because the uncertainty of not really knowing what is actually going on is killing me. My dog comes beg me for his after breakfast treat, with a hanging jaw and saliva dripping from it, and I could not even give him his favorite treat because he can't chew it. He is in great spirit, he plays, he is active, but he drools a lot now and can only close his mouth when he lies down flat with it on the floor. Vets checked all, the throat, tongue, teeth which we also care for a lot, they are at this point perplexed and safe to say clueless. Maybe through opinions and experiences here I can find out more.
Thanks in advance, I wanted to be as detailed as possible here also in case someone else has this issue in the future and can learn from what has happened before since this situation is extremely rare I found out.
To make matters worse, he makes a huge mess drinking, I help him by holding bowl higher or the easiest for him is when he drinks while lying down. As for eating, he is unable to chew, he licks the food in and swallows it as whole, having (took me also a day to realize) having caused probably full stomach, because he could not poop for 30 hours and came whimpering at me in middle of the night, so I thought maybe diarrhea, took him out, he literally ran towards grass and started like a cow eating it. Peeing etc was of no importance, he ate grass for 20 mins. The stool worked later (thankfully), but he can't chew properly anymore, jaw is still dropped. I changed to soft food of course meanwhile.
I went to search for answers, of course I found the:
Trigeminal Neuritis (which I pray that it is, since it auto-heals itself in 2-4 weeks). But what a coincidence this happening 3 days after a rabies vaccine.
Then I searched and searched and searched and people that reported side effects never reported what I encounter, but then I saw one article:
65 ways how rabies vaccination for dogs can harm your dog:
65 Problems With The Rabies Vaccine
There are plenty of ways the Rabies Vaccine can harm your dog. In this article, one of DNM's top vets will discuss 65 problems with this vaccine, but first, she dives right into outdated rabies laws and what that means for your dog...
www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com
I read all, for the first time, I found this:
Point 25: Hanging down of the lower Jaw.
This is the first time I read this anywhere. The main side-effect causes from the more "official" vet sites, never mentioned this. However, I read this article with a lot of caution, as the site appears to be a bit towards the "alternative medicine" orientation and somewhat anti-rabies vaccination bias, but it was there. However, it brilliantly described how the rabies vaccination works, so dead rabies virus spreads through the dog, including the brain obviously, which could trigger e neurological reaction making the dog think he has symptoms of rabies (even if he has no rabies), either way, it was a good read as it coincided with many other articles but was much more skeptical regarding the positive outcomes of the vaccination than other sites.
I brought this up with the vets again but at this point I am getting the "never have seen this in my career" / "not normal" / "let's observe another week", etc, etc, basically, all clueless responses. Thus I am here to know if you have experienced, or you know other dogs and friends, because the uncertainty of not really knowing what is actually going on is killing me. My dog comes beg me for his after breakfast treat, with a hanging jaw and saliva dripping from it, and I could not even give him his favorite treat because he can't chew it. He is in great spirit, he plays, he is active, but he drools a lot now and can only close his mouth when he lies down flat with it on the floor. Vets checked all, the throat, tongue, teeth which we also care for a lot, they are at this point perplexed and safe to say clueless. Maybe through opinions and experiences here I can find out more.
Thanks in advance, I wanted to be as detailed as possible here also in case someone else has this issue in the future and can learn from what has happened before since this situation is extremely rare I found out.
