Maintaining welfare standards during hospitalisation

When assessing an animal’s state of welfare or wellbeing, which of the following can we consider in order to ensure we are getting the full picture?

Health and fitness, reproduction state

Freedom from pain, disease, and hunger

Environmental resources, reproduction state

Physical state, physiological state, environmental resources, behaviour

Music therapy can be one way of reducing stress in kennelled dogs. Which genre of music do dogs appear to enjoy most?

Reggae and soft rock

Heavy metal

Pop and jazz

Garage

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Cortisol levels can rise temporarily during situations such as hunting, or mating and so short term raised cortisol is not always detrimental to an animal’s health

Increases in heart rate and blood pressure help an animal to feel less painful after surgery

Stress can originate when an animal experiences a reduction in predictability of events

Chronic stress and prolonged periods of raised cortisol levels can affect an animal’s health

Buster collar usage can be reduced by:

Considerate clipping and prepping of the surgical site

Appropriate suture tension

Pre, peri and post-operative analgesia

All of the above

The only ‘true analgesia’ available to completely prevent a noxious stimulus signal travelling to the brain is:

Methadone

Lidocaine/Bupivicaine

Buprenorphine

Ketamine

‘Scruffing’ a cat only occurs naturally during which 3 occasions for cats:

Being born/licked by mum/during mating

Being born/being carried by mum/during mating

Being carried by mum/ during mating/ during fighting

During mating/ during fighting/ when at the vets

Which of the following measures is NOT a reliable method of measuring pain in dogs?

Increased respiratory rate/panting

Hunched/tense body posture

Growling/guarding on palpation of wound

Licking wound

Based on gastric transit times of dry or solid food, the minimum starving time required for adult cats and dogs prior to surgery is?

4 hours

6 hours

10 hours

12 hours

For which of the following scenarios in an anaesthetised cat would you give more analgesia to, rather than turn up the vapouriser:

Eyes ventral, jaw tone absent, increase in HR and RR, palpebral reflex absent

Eyes ventral, jaw tone present, increase in HR and RR, palpebral reflex present

Eyes central, jaw tone present, moving, vocalising

Eyes central, jaw tone absent, decrease in HR and RR, palpebral reflex absent

Which of the following is NOT correct? A dog that is barking loudly in the kennel may:

Be anxious

Need the toilet

Be trying to ruin your day

Need some human company

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Maintaining welfare standards during hospitalisation