What affects us affects cats
NEWS AND VIEWS: US scientists say that if you have a cat and have tested positive for Covid-19 you should both self-isolate. This seems a very positive and quite strict directive and I’m getting this news from a British newspaperA. They go a step further. If a cat owner has to go to hospital, …
You would expect that the presence of companion animals in a household during the coronavirus lockdown would be beneficial to their human guardians and a survey confirms this. The study is called: Human-animal relationships and interactions during the Covid-19 lockdown phase in the UK: Investigating links with mental health and loneliness and it is …
With all the talk about the big international push to develop an effective and approved human vaccine against Covid-19, it is nice to read that in parallel at least one company is developing a coronavirus vaccine for cats. It is exclusively for veterinary use. The company is called Applied DNA Sciences. Their headquarters are …
There have been a few studies on this subject unsurprisingly. It is obviously highly pertinent at the moment. However, a recent study from Canada led by a veterinary pathologist, Dorothee Bienzle of the University of Guelph, appears to confirm that the level of transmission of infection from people suffering from Covid-19 to their cats …
The coronavirus pandemic lockdowns have altered the relationship between people and wild animals. This article is about mountain lions in Santiago but it might well apply to other wild species for the same reasons. A combination of factors has resulted in seven mountain lions being tranquillized and captured in Santiago, the capital of Chile …
A drug labelled GC376 was found, we are told by the authors of a Daily Mail online article, to destroy the Covid-19 virus in lab experiments. There are calls for the drug to be trialled as a standard treatment for coronavirus. As I understand it, GC376 is not yet authorised in America by the …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Russia has a large mink fur industry. Comment: that’s not a good start in this story because animal advocates will detest that thought. Russia has around 100 fur farms and I understand that they are very large. Therefore they need to protect this lucrative industry. There have been Covid-19 infections at …
This is a developing situation. Nobody wants to create alarm but the focus thus far has been on people and how many are infected and how many die. Companion animals are an afterthought but the picture is developing. It seems clear to me that people who have been infected with Covid-19 should consider their …
