4 Common Signs Your Dog Is in Pain and How to Safely Treat Them

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that our lovable fur baby is a descendant of wolves, but when it comes to how they handle pain, their ancestor’s practice is also, unfortunately, how they navigate it. Wolves are pack animals, and so are dogs, but where dogs now have loving homes and families of humans to make up their packs, wolves were stuck with their own kind and only the resources to manage pain that wolves knew of—significantly less than what your dog has access to today.¹