China calls for a revolution in diet to stop its citizens eating exotic and potentially dangerous animal parts

Change in China's attitude towards diet

There is a bright silver lining to the coronavirus outbreak which started in China and which is frightening many people across the planet because it is perilously close to being a pandemic. The silver lining is that the administrators of China, and I hope its citizens, are reflecting on their habit of eating exotic …

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Can cats get coronavirus?

Pangolin parts for sale at China market

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). …

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Whole, dead, baby birds packaged as cat food in China imported into America

Dead baby birds are commercial cat food in China

DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, CHANTILLY, VA – OPINION/NEWS: This is a strange cat story. I provides people in the West with an insight into commercially available cat food in the East, in this case China. A plane flew to Dulles International Airport from Beijing, China with a package of what appears to be dead, baby …

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Myth buster: no evidence that cats and dogs can spread new coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Can cats and dogs spread the new coronavirus?

At the date of this post (see above), there is no evidence that your companion, domestic cat or dog can be infected with the new coronavirus, according to the WHO – World Health Organisation.. Therefore they cannot spread the disease to people. It is very important that this message is spread rapidly across China and …

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Mr Mao – heroic cat rescuer saving cats left behind in Wuhan coronavirus panic

Deserted city in coronavirus panic

NEWS/OPINION FROM CHINA’S CORONAVIRUS CATASTROPHE: This is another story about how the novel coronavirus epidemic (pandemic?) is affecting cat companions in Wuhan, China. The virus has exposed some uncomfortable truths concerning the human to companion cat relationship in China. It is reported that when push comes to shove thousands of cat companions are being …

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Mad, cruel, panic in China as neighbours bury a cat lover’s cat alive for no good reason

I am not sure whether I should write about this. I feel I have two but it’s just too cruel, too mad, too crazy and utterly unacceptable. There must be a huge amount of panic in China at the moment as this coronavirus pandemic gets up speed and you can almost sense the fear …

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Authorities in China are threatening to cull domestic cats and dogs in coronavirus scare

Coronavirus

CHINA – CORONAVIRUS UPDATE – opinion/news story: This has got desperately out of hand. Because a Chinese scientist – China’s top expert for infectious diseases apparently – has said that domestic cats and dogs can become infected with this novel (new) strain of coronavirus which has caused panic and many human deaths, local authorities …

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