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Trainers and behavior consultants share an important common goal with pain practitioners: helping animals live better lives. Fear Free Certified trainers in particular have pledged to use practices that “protect and promote the physical and emotional wellbeing of animals.”  That promise includes, among many other things, helping animals to be as pain free as possible. […]

What if you couldn’t tell your doctor that you were in pain? Animals suffer from pain just like we do. Pain comes in many forms: surgical pain, arthritis and cancer, just to name a few. Acute pain is obvious and distressing. Chronic pain can be subtle, and masked as “getting old” or “slowing down.” Age […]

Up until recently, amputations were often approached from the point of view that “The animal has three more legs.” This was often the prevailing view of the not only the surgeon, but also everyone that had a say in their aftercare, including the owner. In more recent years, there have been vast improvements in pain […]

Below are listed some signs to identify when your dog is in pain. Reluctance to walk on slippery surfaces. Some dogs may never have liked to walk on wood or vinyl flooring because it was too slippery. However, if this is a more recent issue, then pain needs to be considered as one of the […]

I hold to a set of well-thought-out guidelines for the treatment of our pets developed by the British Farm Animal Welfare Council. They are called The Five Freedoms and outline the humane treatment of farm animals. It is clear to me that these principles should apply to all animals under our care, not just those […]