Identifying Pain in the Pet You Love in Difficult Times-COVID-19
Don DeForge, VMD
17 Seemans Lane
Milford, CT 06460
203-877-3221
Silver Sands Veterinary
SilverSandsVeterinary.com
DonDeForge100@gmail.com
Identifying Pain in the Pet You Love during: COVID-19
We search each day for the end of COVID-19. It is a time of anxiety and fear! The media continues to flash headlines and be the first to announce local community death totals and infected totals as though we were completing a score card at a ball game.
Consumers are throwing protective gloves over supermarket parking lots after they pack their cars; not respecting social distancing in the markets; and continue to hoard.
It is a continuation of the me, myself, and I society that was always present but now is being fueled by panic and anxiety over a virus that no one understands.
Why can't we try to put our heads together and help each other? Why can't we think WE rather than ME?
To get through this we must help each other. Respect the market and chain stores. Do not litter their parking areas. Respect the workers who are there to provide for you. Most importantly, start respecting others! Explain to your children right from wrong and do not allow your children to grow up accepting wrong is right!
During this time of unrest our pets can be in pain!
Silver Sands Veterinary continues to be here as a Primary General Care Practice; an Urgent Care Center; and now is offering TELEMEDICINE at a reduced fee to help those pets that need our help when you cannot easily come to our main hospital.
Our main hospital has a SECURED NO SOCIAL CONTACT FOYER for admission and discharge. You are safe in this FOYER! You will not meet others in our parking lot because we are staggering appointments for you.
For those who do not want to leave home we now offer TELEMEDICINE CONSULTS. This is very important if a pet is in pain.
Recognizing Pain in Animals is NOT straightforward!
Pet advocates and pet lovers are constantly seeking outward expressions of pain. A dog howling; a cat screeching; an overt inability to use a leg; or an open trauma site. Yes....these do cause pain.... but pain is most often hidden or occult in pets!
Pet owners may see something but they usually do not know what they are seeing!
Pet owner's must stop searching ONLY for acute signs of clinical pain but MUST start to become a pet detective and note how PET PAIN can be manifested in their pet's behavior.
With COVID-19 many are working from home or are not working at this time. This is the time to spend a moment with your pet or pet[s] and study their behavior.
Behavioral changes can be the beginning of your recognition of "Bad Pain"! Pain that is present but difficult to interpret.
Study the BehavioralChanges below! If present call for an out-patient or a Telemedicine Appointment immediately:
Interpreting "BAD Pain"
from Behavioral Change
and Pain Targets*
Do you recognize these changes in your pet?
Somnolence-decreased activity
Hyperexcitability
Increase appetite or increased drinking
Decreased appetite or decreased drinking
Not able to walk up and down stairs
Not wanting to play with toys
A playful jumping toy breed that is now sedintery
Not interested in treats
No interest in exercise or begins lying down after short exercise
Shifting food from one side of the mouth to the other
Dropping food
Not eating dry food or treats
Avoid hard toys
Avoids ball playing
Abnormal posture when lying down
Difficulty getting up from lying down
Hiding in the home
Aggressive when certain part of the body are touched
Not interested in other "pet friends in home"-Avoidance
Ear Rubbing
Anal dragging
Face Rubbing
Paw chewing and biting at flanks
Vomiting and/or diarrhea
Enlarged Belly-abdomen is hard-rock like and enlarged
Forceful retching with no vomit being produced
Coughing
Bloody discharge from mouth or anus
Swollen Mammary Glands
Red or irritated skin
Swollen interdigital area-between toes
Mouth odor
Gum Bleeding
Pustular discharge around teeth
Ulcers in mouth
Bad odor in mouth-Oral malodor
Broken teeth
Discolored teeth-pink-red-purple-blue-brown-or grey
Swellings around the globes
Squinting
Ocular Discharge
Red Eyes
Sunken Eyes
Rubbing of the Eyes
Enlarged Globe[s]
Ulcers in the eye[s]
Nasal discharge-Bloody noses that are frequent
Broken nails
Infected nails
Nails growing into pads
Lumps or bumps that are pustular or bleeding
Limping
Not able to walk normally
Not able to stand
Not able to defecate
Not able to urinate
Straining to urinate
Straining to defecate
Shortness of Breath
Coughing
Chronic Weight Loss
Acute Weight Loss
*"Identifying the Behavioral Changes and Pain Targets are important but it is up to Dr. DeForge and his consultants to differentiate primary pain from secondary pain caused by other complex medical and/or surgical problems.
Whether Primary or Secondary, pain is pain and it must be addressed!
If uncertain that your pet is in pain, make use of Dr. DeForge's Telemedicine Consult Service.
[Call 203-877-3221] to schedule an appointment]!
Let Dr. DeForge be your guide to allow your pet to become pain free with a quality of life that we all seek during these trying times.
God bless and be well!
Dr. Don DeForge and Staff
17 Seemans Lane
Milford, CT 06460
203-877-3221
Silver Sands Veterinary
SilverSandsVeterinary.com
- A General Companion Animal Practice
- Urgent Care
- NEW! Telemedicine Consultations
- Advanced Veterinary Dentistry
DonDeForge100@gmail.com
Identifying Pain in the Pet You Love during: COVID-19
An Important Journey in helping your friend
Consumers are throwing protective gloves over supermarket parking lots after they pack their cars; not respecting social distancing in the markets; and continue to hoard.
It is a continuation of the me, myself, and I society that was always present but now is being fueled by panic and anxiety over a virus that no one understands.
Why can't we try to put our heads together and help each other? Why can't we think WE rather than ME?
To get through this we must help each other. Respect the market and chain stores. Do not litter their parking areas. Respect the workers who are there to provide for you. Most importantly, start respecting others! Explain to your children right from wrong and do not allow your children to grow up accepting wrong is right!
During this time of unrest our pets can be in pain!
Silver Sands Veterinary continues to be here as a Primary General Care Practice; an Urgent Care Center; and now is offering TELEMEDICINE at a reduced fee to help those pets that need our help when you cannot easily come to our main hospital.
Our main hospital has a SECURED NO SOCIAL CONTACT FOYER for admission and discharge. You are safe in this FOYER! You will not meet others in our parking lot because we are staggering appointments for you.
For those who do not want to leave home we now offer TELEMEDICINE CONSULTS. This is very important if a pet is in pain.
Recognizing Pain in Animals is NOT straightforward!
Pet advocates and pet lovers are constantly seeking outward expressions of pain. A dog howling; a cat screeching; an overt inability to use a leg; or an open trauma site. Yes....these do cause pain.... but pain is most often hidden or occult in pets!
Pet owners may see something but they usually do not know what they are seeing!
Pet owner's must stop searching ONLY for acute signs of clinical pain but MUST start to become a pet detective and note how PET PAIN can be manifested in their pet's behavior.
With COVID-19 many are working from home or are not working at this time. This is the time to spend a moment with your pet or pet[s] and study their behavior.
Behavioral changes can be the beginning of your recognition of "Bad Pain"! Pain that is present but difficult to interpret.
Study the BehavioralChanges below! If present call for an out-patient or a Telemedicine Appointment immediately:
Interpreting "BAD Pain"
from Behavioral Change
and Pain Targets*
Do you recognize these changes in your pet?
Somnolence-decreased activity
Hyperexcitability
Increase appetite or increased drinking
Decreased appetite or decreased drinking
Not able to walk up and down stairs
Not wanting to play with toys
A playful jumping toy breed that is now sedintery
Not interested in treats
No interest in exercise or begins lying down after short exercise
Shifting food from one side of the mouth to the other
Dropping food
Not eating dry food or treats
Avoid hard toys
Avoids ball playing
Abnormal posture when lying down
Difficulty getting up from lying down
Hiding in the home
Aggressive when certain part of the body are touched
Not interested in other "pet friends in home"-Avoidance
Ear Rubbing
Anal dragging
Face Rubbing
Paw chewing and biting at flanks
Vomiting and/or diarrhea
Enlarged Belly-abdomen is hard-rock like and enlarged
Forceful retching with no vomit being produced
Coughing
Bloody discharge from mouth or anus
Swollen Mammary Glands
Red or irritated skin
Swollen interdigital area-between toes
Mouth odor
Gum Bleeding
Pustular discharge around teeth
Ulcers in mouth
Bad odor in mouth-Oral malodor
Broken teeth
Discolored teeth-pink-red-purple-blue-brown-or grey
Swellings around the globes
Squinting
Ocular Discharge
Red Eyes
Sunken Eyes
Rubbing of the Eyes
Enlarged Globe[s]
Ulcers in the eye[s]
Nasal discharge-Bloody noses that are frequent
Broken nails
Infected nails
Nails growing into pads
Lumps or bumps that are pustular or bleeding
Limping
Not able to walk normally
Not able to stand
Not able to defecate
Not able to urinate
Straining to urinate
Straining to defecate
Shortness of Breath
Coughing
Chronic Weight Loss
Acute Weight Loss
*"Identifying the Behavioral Changes and Pain Targets are important but it is up to Dr. DeForge and his consultants to differentiate primary pain from secondary pain caused by other complex medical and/or surgical problems.
Whether Primary or Secondary, pain is pain and it must be addressed!
If uncertain that your pet is in pain, make use of Dr. DeForge's Telemedicine Consult Service.
[Call 203-877-3221] to schedule an appointment]!
Let Dr. DeForge be your guide to allow your pet to become pain free with a quality of life that we all seek during these trying times.
God bless and be well!
Dr. Don DeForge and Staff
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