Posted on 10/19/2021 10:23:17 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
LANSING, Mich. (WJRT) - A house cat from Ingham County is the first pet in Michigan with a confirmed case of COVID-19.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development says numerous pets have tested positive for the illness around the country, but the domestic shorthair cat is the first confirmed in the state.
The cat’s owners tested positive for COVID-19 a week before the cat got ill. The cat developed sneezing, but animal officials say it since has recovered.
“Given the other reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 being found in pets throughout the world, this detection is not unexpected,” said State Veterinarian Dr. Nora Wineland. “The cases in animals generally have involved direct contact with an owner or caretaker who was ill or tested positive for COVID-19.”
COVID-19 symptoms in pets also can include fever, cough, nasal discharge, eye discharge, vomiting and diarrhea. Pet owners who suspect an illness should contact a veterinarian, who can ask the state to approve an animal COVID-19 test.
The U.S. has seen 257 confirmed COVID-19 illnesses in animals as of Monday, including 99 cats. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says there is no evidence showing animals are passing the illness to humans in significant numbers.
“COVID-19 mainly spreads from person to person through respiratory droplets from coughing, sneezing, and talking,” said Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan’s chief medical executive. “Protecting pets begins by taking precautions to protect yourself by getting one of the safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.”
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What are the implications? Apparently, while it's not significant pets can transmit covid.
So let's think about this. What do we do now? Do we have to vaccinate our pets and revaccinate them every 6 months? Is covid transmittable only via cats or are all mammals 'at risk'?
Are we going to have to vaccinate deer and the squirrels that eat at your bird feeder? What about that raccoon who goes through your trash at night and wakes you up?
This just highlights the absurdity of this "fully effective" vaccine. As long as animals can carry covid can we ever be safe from covid? Or are they going to tell us only cats can transmit covid so there's nothing to be concerned about?
Didn’t they try this early last year? State that it was possible to catch COVID-19 from your pet?
No kill shelters will be a thing of the past. Pets gotta go.
Can you hold a job if your pet is unvaccinated?
Not this **** again.
Cats get a different coronavirus, not the one that causes CoupFlu.
This article is propaganda generated to scare people into getting jabbed.
Should vaccinate every pet then.
Either that or all pet food will suddenly disappear.
Kill or be killed, in the final analysis.
These sorts of things were posted on the COVID-19 threads in the Spring / Summer of 2020. Most of those FReepers don't post any more, but a few do.
No, and it’s now a felony...
Is the “first pet” what one calls the pet of the governor?
“Do we have to vaccinate our pets and revaccinate them every 6 months? Is covid transmittable only via cats or are all mammals ‘at risk’?”
Cats and deer are confirmed to carry it, and I suppose bats as well, since the virus is a variant of a bat virus. So there are probably at least 3 animal reservoirs out there, 2 of them among wild animals, so vaccinating won’t do anything to help there. The virus is going to be endemic.
I thought First pet meant the Governor’s pet.
Can you imagine the lockdowns that would ensue if Gov Whitmire’s cat got sick?
*DRINK*
Who wants to play this game, again? LOL! (I haven't been 100% SOBER since 2008, thanks to Mother Government.) j/k
I think it will be really hard to get the cat to keep a mask on.
Which brand of motor oil is most likely to test positive for COVID?
The one you use.
Someone with covid coughed on the pet and they magnified that 500 quadrillion times in a PCR test and found Rover positive to initiate a whole new round of fear porn.
If your horses get it, you must NEVER, EVER administer Ivermectin. They could die from it.
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