Had a bit of a scare!

radstusky

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I came home from work and my panther looked hungry so I offered to hand feed him a couple of crickets. In his haste to gobble them up he missed one and hit my hand, which of course I didn't let get sucked into his mouth. His tongue stuck to my hand for a bit before he was able to retract it. I thought everything was OK at first, but when I went to offer him another cricket he tried to eat it but his tongue wouldn't work right! As I looked closer at it, it looked like his hyoid bone was actually reversed inside his mouth! He was struggling to get his tongue back in it's correct position inside his mouth. I didn't know what to do, so I offered him some water from a dropper and he lapped up a couple of droppers full. Some how it he was able to reposition his tongue then and he ate another cricket to my relief! Whew! that seemed like a close call to me, I wouldn't want anything to go wrong with such a vital part of his physiology!

Has this happened to anyone else?

Edit: I could be wrong about his tongue bone being reversed, maybe it's not even possible and something else happened?
 
By the reversed hyoid bone do you mean like flopped over backwards? Like pointing down his throat?
 
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