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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