Prompt and judicious pain management can benefit an animal’s long-term health.

By Tom Ewing

As the result of injury or illness, a cat (just like you and me) can experience pain of varying intensity in its hard and soft tissues — its bones, joints, ligaments, muscles and internal organs. But unlike us, a cat can’t express its discomfort by verbalizing. It can’t say “Ouch!” and point to where it hurts. Then how do we know when a cat is in pain? The answer, says Sheilah Robertson, DVM, is that we can’t know — unfortunately, we can only assume. …

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