What affects us affects cats
NEWS/OPINION: Not a word of apology has come out of China for causing the damage done to the planet by the Covid-19 virus. I was waiting for an apology from President Xi Jinping. The virus is costing the planet trillions of dollars in lost economic trade. It is killing thousands of people and disrupting …
Summary: At the date of this post, the question cannot be answered with certainty by scientists; therefore we should wait and see.. As Covid-19 has not yet reached its peak (it seems to me), people across the world are becoming more fearful and therefore, regrettably, more irrational because they start to panic. Therefore anything …
Yes, your cat can give you diarrhea (diarrhoea) but it is rare and the conditions are very specific. It also depends on how hygienic you are in handling cat litter and how aware you are in respect of these basic zoonotic diseases. Humans can also give you diarrhoea just for the record and the …
NEWS-OPINION: The Guardian newspaper has reported that the Hong Kong authorities have warned residents not to kiss their companion animals after a single dog was found to test a week positive for Covid-19. I have written about this recently (click for the article). My understanding is, based on reports, that the virus had lodged …
NEWS/OPINION – SOURCE: THE JERUSALEM POST: This is a further update on whether domestic cats and dogs can transmit the novel coronavirus disease called Covid-19. There is a real concern about this and people are nervous generally about becoming infected. However, there is, in my opinion, too much hype by the news media. This …
NEWS/OPINION-Kaleeji Times: a controversy between People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in India and the Chennai quarantine facility at Chennai Port has broken out because of a cat which arrived in a container on a ship from China. The Chennai authorities believe that the cat may have contracted the Covid-19 virus and therefore …
People are asking Google whether domestic cats can get coronavirus and this is a good question. The answer, as at the date of this post, is not entirely clear. The world has one case of a companion animal ostensibly contracting coronavirus and that is companion dog whose owner is infected with the virus (covid-19). …
OPNION ON NEWS FROM MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Moscow officials are killing stray cats and dogs because of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus epidemic). A Moscow official has declared that Moscow will be totally cleared of stray animals including rats. This is my interpretation of the statement of Elena Andreeva (Moscow head of the Rospotrepnadzor – the consumer …
