Why do animals seem to handle surgery better than humans?

Because they can’t tell you how much it hurts?

The surgery procedure is designed for less pain.

Because animals don’t have the sort of minds that allow them to blow things all out of proportion.

Humans are emotional. And animals have a shorter attention span. Kids do better with surgery than adults as well. The day we brought our 5 year old daughter home from having her tonsils out, we wanted to know if she wanted ice cream, she wanted bacon instead!

Mmmmmmmmmmm! BACON! : ))

The human brain is structured differently from that of animals.

One area of great importance for pain perception in humans is the cortex and its relative size decreases as we descend the evolutionary tree. For instance, in relative terms, the cortex gets smaller going from humans, through primates, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibia and finally to fish, which possess only a rudimentary cortex.

Do you often think about having your husband neutered?

Pain is good. It lets you know you’re still alive. If you have pain, take an aspirin and drive the frack on! : )

They have recuperative powers that are better than ours, because it’s a needed adaptation for the wild. No one will feed them if they can’t move around and hunt their own food. Then they would die.

@Doctor_D Do you think that animal procedures are designed to be less painful than procedures on people? Why wouldn’t the same technology/medical advancements be used on people?

Ga @Snarp

Animals do not feel sorry for themselves when they’re not feeling well or sick. I see this daily in my 14 year old dog Tilly, who has chronic arthiritis.

Humans, for lack of a better way to put it, “milk things for all they’re worth.” Sometimes this is done on a conscious level, sometimes not. This is often known as secondary gain, whereby a person gets external sympathy from illness behavior.