Does Your Dog Have Pain?

One time my dog, Storm, ripped one of his toes open very badly on a nail that was sticking out of some wood. It was a horribly deep and nasty looking cut. I'll use this as an example of how dogs handle pain.

We took Storm to the vet of course. The doctor said that because it was on his toe and the way it was, there was not a good way to stitch it up. Although we were not happy about it, we took Storm home. It was an awful looking injury. His toe was sliced wide open. The vet had given him some antibiotics to take. What struck us most however was how Storm handled his pain.

If one of us had suffered an injury like that, we would have needed pain pills. I can't imagine how much that would hurt. But Storm got home and really acted like nothing was wrong. He limped a bit, but he pretty much acted like nothing was wrong. He ate, walked, played, and slept the same as he always had. In fact, if you had not know he was walking around with a bad injury, you might think nothing was wrong.

This experience of dog pain and how it's handled by our pets has been confirmed many time. Just one more example was when our dog Oreo had to have surgery in her chest area. It was about a 6 inch cut. We took her home the next day and was supposed to keep her calm….if possible. Well, we opened the truck door, she jumped out and the first thing she did was go to the fence in the back yard and climbed over it (Oreo did not need to use gates).

Can you imagine us having our chest cut open one day and then climbing over a fence the next day? Obviously, dog pain and human pain are not experienced in the same ways.

This fact makes it important for dog owners to pay close attention to their animals as they age. Older dogs are likely to begin experiencing different problems later in their lives. It is important to be alert for these subtle changes as some of them could be serious internal problems which aren't easily observed. And since dogs do not exhibit pain as we do, the issues may go entirely unnoticed while they are allowed to develop and become serious problems like advanced dog arthritis.

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