This book deals with pain in companion animals and how it affects their welfare, health and, of course, behaviour. It describes the difficulties encountered, throughout history, to finally reach the conclusion that animals and humans share the same neurophysiological mechanisms to feel pain, and what their sensitive pathways are. It then goes deeper into the changes that pain can cause in the behaviour of dogs and cats and the tools available to the veterinary surgeon to control it. Good veterinary practice and professional ethics lead us to try to reduce pain in animals as much as possible. Having a book such as this one can help us achieve this objective.

Authors:

Tomàs Camps Morey

Graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2004. Master’s degree in Clinical Ethology by the UAB in the same year. He has been a Diplomate of the ECAWBM -European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine- since 2011. He was in charge of a private clinical animal behaviour service for four years.

Since 2009 he has been part of the Nutrition and Animal Welfare Service (SNIBA, Servicio de Nutrición y Bienestar Animal) of the UAB. He is also a veterinary surgeon at the Ethology Service of the UAB Veterinary Clinical Hospital and has been president of the Clinical Ethology Group of the Spanish Association of Veterinary Surgeons Specialised in Small Animals (GrETCA, Grupo de Etología Clínica de AVEPA) since 2009.

Marta Amat

PhD in Veterinary Medicine. Diplomate of the ECAWBM, European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine.

Veterinary surgeon at the Ethology Service of the UAB Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Clinical Hospital since 2001. Head of the Ethology Service since January 2009.