Increased recognition of the significance of animal pain and the necessity to control it has led to veterinary professionals looking to human medicine for guidance in how to quantify pain, a...
When a rabbit is brought into practice with gastrointestinal symptoms it is important to rapidly establish whether there is an obstruction requiring immediate emergency surgery or if gut stasis is the...
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...
There is growing interest by veterinary clinical specialists in exploring the nature of an animal's reaction to pain and how best to treat it (Hansen, 2003). Pain assessment research in animals has...