The cat is an animal that hides pain as few do. Not doing it just because, but to survive. Hiding it is part of his survival instinct since if he did not, a larger predator could quickly detect him and kill him.
Although at home you have no need to hide it, instinct cannot be modified, much less eliminated. It is in your genes, and it will always be. Then, How to know that a cat suffers?
The cat that has suffered an accident or is sick he will try by all means to continue with his normal life. This means that, as far as possible, you are going to eat regularly, you are going to walk as best you can,… in short, you are going to show yourself as usual. Recognizing the signs of pain in a feline is, therefore, a task that is not easy at all.
So that it is at least a little bit, we have to observe the animal every day: at what times he eats and sleeps, how he walks and meows,… So we can detect any new detail that may indicate that something is not going as it should.
Signs of pain in the cat
The signs of pain in the feline are the following:
- It stays hidden.
- Changes in your behavior.
- Trouble walking
- Loss of weight and / or appetite.
- Stop meowing or, on the contrary, start doing it a lot.
- Loss of interest in personal hygiene.
- Stop using his litter box.
If we detect any of these symptoms, it is important that we take him to the vet as soon as possibleas the cat may have been hiding its pain for days.
How to help you?
Once the vet has examined him and started treatment, at home we will have to provide you with a quiet place where you can rest and recover. In this room there should be a bed, food and water, and a litter box with low edges. Thus, little by little he will return to being who he was.