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It may come as a disappointing surprise to some that the focus on recognition, assessment, prevention, and management of pain in dogs and cats is a relatively recent phenomenon, having gained significant traction only since the late 1990s.

Furthermore, underrecognition and undermanagement of pain is not merely an ethical problem – although it is very much that – but generates significant physiological and medical consequences leading to increased patient morbidity at the very least (protracted patient recovery, compromised quality of life), and at times possibly even mortality (including humane euthanasia).

The very good news is that pain management is now a central, and increasingly sophisticated, feature of small animal medicine and surgery, with an increasingly wide array of tools at the disposal of all members of the veterinary team.