assessing cat pain

Cat Pain Detector by careology

Cat Pain Detector assesses portrait photo. Available now.

This is available right now online using a laptop. I’ve just used it. I used a photo of a Bengal cat that I had on file. He is not my cat. This cat looks healthy and not in pain. In fact, he is a rescue cat who’s been at a shelter for 12 months because …

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Out-of-cage time in shelters are clearly an important part of maintaining mental health

Out-of-cage time for cats and dogs at animal shelters

Nathan Winograd was the director of an open-admission animal control shelter. He is America’s best-known and best-informed shelter animal advocate. When he was a director of a shelter, he ensured that the animals in his care, both dogs and cats, were released from their cages during the day as follows: Dogs: a minimum four times …

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AI in cellphone app can read feline facial expressions

Cell phone app understands your cat’s facial expressions

A cell phone (smartphone) app, in development, but in beta version called Tably, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to be able to read a domestic cat’s facial expressions to tell the owner how their cat feels. It is an interesting development on the back of previous studies which showed that domestic cats do have subtle facial …

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Marking out a cat's face to assess facial expressions

Extreme breeding of cats creates misleading facial expressions

COMMENT: There’s a new study published online which looks at the way the normal facial expressions of a domestic cat are distorted by selective breeding when creating purebred cats with extreme appearances. It makes sense because the neutral facial expression of some of these breeds are heavily distorted from the normal. At least this will …

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Example of Grimace Scale

Feline Grimace Scale tells you more effectively if a cat is in pain

Thankfully vets are getting better at deciding if a cat is in pain. Back in the old days they didn’t really consider it. Although there are behavioural signs which are discussed on this site, a more practical and efficient method of measuring cat pain is through a range of facial expressions. This is the Grimace …

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