Pain compromises the welfare of animals. A prerequisite for being able to alleviate pain is
that we are able to recognize it. Potential behavioural signs of pain were investigated for …

AIMS: To quantify the range of attitudes and perceptions of cattle practitioners to painful
procedures and conditions in cattle, to identify some of the demographic factors affecting …

ATTITUDES towards pain and its control in farm animals have lagged behind those in
companion animal species. However, a considerable amount of work over the past 15 years …

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 …

AIM: To assess the welfare impact of lameness on dairy cattle in New Zealand by measuring
the duration of allodynia (decreased nociceptive threshold) and increased locomotion score …

In this paper various aspects of animal pain and methods for its assessment are considered.
The responses of lambs and calves to castration and of lambs to tail docking are used to …

A questionnaire to examine the attitudes and perceptions of cattle practitioners to pain in
cattle was sent to 2398 practitioners working in the uk, and 641 responses were received …

Pain is a subjective experience. Hence, one cannot truly know what another being (human
or animal) experiences. Subjective experiences are challenging in medicine, but not unique …

The behavioural responses of groups of 10 lambs were examined for 90min following a
range of commonly used husbandry procedures. The treatment groups were, control …

This review focuses on parturition as a painful process in cows and sows. Firstly, the
different stages of parturition associated to the origin and transmission of pain stimuli are …