Pain is a personal, complex, and multidimensional experience involving sensory and
emotional components. The intensity of pain does not correlate linearly with the severity of
the pathology; rather, it involves stress response and cognitive functions of the brain
including fear, memory, anxiety, and distraction (Fig. 1). Genetics and neuro-hormonal
mechanisms of stress are considered equally important in pain perception as the neural
mechanisms of sensory transmission. 1, 2 Feline patients can be affected by a multitude of�…