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Senciência em cães e gatos: Revisão

2022; Editora MV Valero; Volume: 16; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês

10.31533/pubvet.v16sup1.a1314.1-5

1982-1263

K. M. Batista, Ágata Aline Mota Dal Pont, Nicolau Cardoso Neto, Silvio Luiz Negrão,

Children's Physical and Motor Development

Sentience is the ability that an individual has to feel positive and negative emotions and consciously have feelings. The scientific literature confirms that, in addition to humans, vertebrate animals and some invertebrates have neuronal substrates of consciousness. Dogs and cats have indicative behavioral and mental characteristics that lead them to be considered sentient beings. Therefore, this study aims to carry out a bibliographical survey of the last 15 years on sentience, specifically applied to dogs and cats. During the development of the research, it became evident that dogs and cats are sentient beings, as they demonstrate through body language, namely, corporeal, visual, vocalization expressions, as well as through neurological physiology, that they have mental capacity to feel pain and suffering.