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Cats are Carriers. It is now official.

I think if cats were getting seriously ill from it we would know by now. So I personally wouldn't know what to do differently if a cat was an indoor only cat.

The good news about this is that cats are a relatively common lab animal (rats would have been ideal), so this facilitates research.

The bad news is more disease vectors, even if asymptomatic, increases the risk of genetic recombination and voila new virus to deal with.
 
If my cat is going to catch this virus, it'll be FROM me. AKA, the risk to me is absolutely zero.

Stray cats? Will they be true long term carriers, or more like us and get sick then get better?
 
Jaskalas said:
If my cat is going to catch this virus, it'll be FROM me. AKA, the risk to me is absolutely zero.

Stray cats? Will they be true long term carriers, or more like us and get sick then get better?
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It may be something that supports an ongoing endemic disease or isolated outbreaks, but I doubt feral cats have enough contact with humans to be meaningful to overall spread during this wave. That said, I certainly wouldn't be petting a stray cat right now.
 
shortylickens said:
www.reuters.com

Cats can catch coronavirus, study finds, prompting WHO investigation

Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus but dogs appear not to be vulnerable, according to a study published on Wednesday, prompting the WHO to say it will take a closer look at transmission of the virus between humans and pets.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com

SO, yeah, theres that.

I am seriously worried a bunch of assholes all over the world will start killing or releasing them now.
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Avatar full of murderers.
 
interchange said:
It may be something that supports an ongoing endemic disease or isolated outbreaks, but I doubt feral cats have enough contact with humans to be meaningful to overall spread during this wave. That said, I certainly wouldn't be petting a stray cat right now.
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In my experience it's really hard to get within 6 feet of any cat that isn't yours. But your own cat could catch it from a neighborhood cat! Whoops.
 
interchange said:
I think if cats were getting seriously ill from it we would know by now. So I personally wouldn't know what to do differently if a cat was an indoor only cat.
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I thought I heard a report that some tiger in a zoo tested positive for it? I guess it would make sense that a distant relative such as the domesticated house cat would potentially be vulnerable. Although, I guess the question is whether they are simply asymptomatic carriers or can actually succumb to the disease.
 
interchange said:
It may be something that supports an ongoing endemic disease or isolated outbreaks, but I doubt feral cats have enough contact with humans to be meaningful to overall spread during this wave. That said, I certainly wouldn't be petting a stray cat right now.
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I feed three of them at my back door plus the raccoons that steal their food, their busy little hands grubbing for bits and pieces while staring me in the face. The beauty of these creatures make my heart sing. What a gift to be alive. Then there is the Bruno family of three crows that personify caution and fear with the baby showing less and less of it.

What a shame I have to shoot them all. One of them could turn out to be Bernie Sanders.
 
Aikouka said:
I thought I heard a report that some tiger in a zoo tested positive for it? I guess it would make sense that a distant relative such as the domesticated house cat would potentially be vulnerable. Although, I guess the question is whether they are simply asymptomatic carriers or can actually succumb to the disease.
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The virus seems to have originated in a bat pangolin exchange that then infected a single human. I guess we can sing, bats pangolins and cats, oh no, bats pangolins and cats
 
Muse said:
In my experience it's really hard to get within 6 feet of any cat that isn't yours. But your own cat could catch it from a neighborhood cat! Whoops.
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The underlying idea here being to keep your fucking cat in your fucking yard. Pet owners who let their pets (dogs included) wander the neighborhood should be punished. People who live in the boonies or on farms are exempt of course.
 
Aikouka said:
I thought I heard a report that some tiger in a zoo tested positive for it? I guess it would make sense that a distant relative such as the domesticated house cat would potentially be vulnerable. Although, I guess the question is whether they are simply asymptomatic carriers or can actually succumb to the disease.
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Cats were sick with dry cough and loss of appetite. At least one dog in close contact with a person with the virus tested for the virus at low levels.

Cats are expected to recover. Zoo keeper was asymptomatic but infected.
 
IronWing said:
You are grossly simplifying and underestimating the human-cat relationship. In addition to feeding them, my cats like me because I bleed.
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They like messing with our minds, as well. Ours have bent me to their will almost entirely since I retired. I live to serve my feline overlords.
 
Jhhnn said:
They like messing with our minds, as well. Ours have bent me to their will almost entirely since I retired. I live to serve my feline overlords.
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That’s the thing. It felt sort of like I was there to serve our cats, and allowed to pet them when they felt like it. Dogs actually act like they want nothing more than to spend with us. I would like cats more if they at least had the correct facial muscles to mimic human human emotions like dogs do.

Oh, and then my immune system decided to become allergic to some protein in their saliva. Mother Nature has some damn cruel tricks.
 
Ajay said:
That’s the thing. It felt sort of like I was there to serve our cats, and allowed to pet them when they felt like it. Dogs actually act like they want nothing more than to spend with us. I would like cats more if they at least had the correct facial muscles to mimic human human emotions like dogs do.

Oh, and then my immune system decided to become allergic to some protein in their saliva. Mother Nature has some damn cruel tricks.
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PBS had some series about dogs and cats. Cats really don't care about you that much. You are it's source of food. Dogs on the other hand sole motivation is to please.
Heck they (really we) evolved dogs to have expressions with their eyebrows unlike any other mammals.
 
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