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Assessing Pain in Animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2023

K M D Rutherford
K M D Rutherford*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh Animal Welfare Research Group, Roslin Biocentre, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS, Scotland, UK
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kenneth.rutherford@bbsrc.ac.uk
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Abstract

Assessing the experience of pain in animals is a difficult task, yet one that is important in animal welfare research. Some approaches to pain assessment in animals are reviewed here. General qualities of pain scales and specific parameters suitable for clinical and experimental pain assessments are discussed. It is argued that pain assessment will progress through an integration of objective and subjective observations of behaviour coupled with multiple measures in various other areas. Such multidimensional pain scales allow an adequate characterisation of the complexity of an individual animal's pain experience to be made. This knowledge improves the recognition and treatment of pain and will allow informed moral debate on the acceptability of practices such as castration and tail-docking of lambs.

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animal painanimal welfarebeak trimmingcanine ovariohysterectomylamb castrationpain assessment

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Animal Welfare , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 2002, pp. 31 - 53
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© 2002 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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Present address: Welfare Biology Group, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9PS, Scotland, UK

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