New rules on social distancing with pets: keep cats indoors, and don't let dogs and cats interact with people or other animals from outside their household.
The news that two cats in New York have tested positive for the coronavirus — making them the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in companion animals in the U.S. — is giving many dog and cat owners pause.
“We don’t want people to panic. We don’t want people to be afraid of pets” or to rush to test them en masse, CDC official Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh told the AP. “There’s no evidence that pets are playing a role in spreading this disease to people.” But there is still much that we still don’t know about this new virus, and there have indeed been a handful of isolated sick animal cases, including two dogs in Hong Kong, a cat in Belgium and the Bronx Zoo tiger. That’s why the World Health Organization is actively investigating the human transmission of COVID-19 to animals. Kerkhove acknowledged, “we think that [animals] may be able to be infected from an infected person.
What precautions should you take if you walk a dog or foster a pet that belongs to someone sick with COVID-19? You’re fostering a sick friend’s pet. Should you quarantine it from your own pets? Could pets spread it to other pets?
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