Lyndsay Barratt

at the Royal Veterinary College

Figure 1. Post-operative soft tissue surgery. The hunched posture of this cat is indicative of abdominal pain.

Feline pain assessment and scoring systems

Cats tend to hide pain as a protective mechanism and as a result their behaviour in response to pain is more subtle than in other species such as dogs (Capner et al, 1999). In addition, cats will...