Simple Summary Scientific interest in animal welfare was initially driven by popular
emotional, ethics and political concerns. It has now become an important societal question …

Animal welfare is a key issue for industries that use or impact upon animals. The accurate
identification of welfare states is particularly relevant to the field of bioscience, where the …

Background The assessment of pain is critical for the welfare of horses, in particular when
pain is induced by common management procedures such as castration. Existing pain …

Background Ear tattooing is a routine procedure performed on laboratory, commercial and
companion rabbits for the purpose of identification. Although this procedure is potentially …

Postoperative pain management in animals is complicated greatly by the inability to
recognize pain. As a result, the choice of analgesics and their doses has been based on …

Background Current behaviour-based pain assessments for laboratory rodents have
significant limitations. Assessment of facial expression changes, as a novel means of pain …

There is a moral obligation to minimize pain in pigs used for human benefit. In livestock
production, pigs experience pain caused by management procedures, eg, castration and tail …

Simple Summary Acute laminitis is a common equine disease characterized by intense foot
pain. This work aimed to investigate whether the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS), a facial …

Effective management of pain is critical to the improvement of animal welfare. For this to
happen, pain must be recognised and assessed in a variety of contexts. Pain is a complex …

Chronic pain affects the lives of millions yearly, but few new treatments are available. Due to
decreasing budgets and increasing costs of preclinical research, alternatives are sought …