Pain Score Canine 2

• Comfortable when resting
• Happy, content
• Not bothering wound or surgery site
• Interested in or curious about surroundings

Response to Palpation:

• Not tender to palpation of wound or surgery site, or to palpation elsewhere

• Content to slightly unsettled or restless.
• Distracted easily by surroundings.

Response to Palpation:

• Reacts to palpation of wound, surgery site or other body part by looking around, flinching or whimpering.

• Looks uncomfortable when resting.
• May whimper or cry and may lick or rub wound or surgery site when unattended.
• Droopy ears, worried facial expression (arched eye brows, darting eyes).
• Hair coat appears rough or fluffed up.
• Reluctant to respond when beckoned
• Not eager to interact with people or surroundings but will look around to see what is going on.

Response to Palpation:

• Flinches, whimpers, cries or guards/pulls away

• Unsettled, crying, groaning, biting or chewing wound when unattended.
• Guards or protects wound or surgery site by altering weight distribution, limping, shifting body position.
• May be unwilling to move all or part of body.

Response to Palpation:

• May be subtle (shifting eyes or increased respiratory rate) if dog is too painful to move or is stoic.
• May be dramatic, such as a sharp cry, growl, bite or bite threat and/or pulling away.

• Constantly groaning or screaming when unattended.
• May bite or chew at wound, but unlikely to move.
• Potentially unresponsive to surroundings.
• Difficult to distract from pain.

Response to Palpation:

• Cries at non-painful palpation (may be experiencing allodynia, wind-up or fearful that pain could be made worse).
• May react aggressively to palpation.

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