Posted on 03/20/2020 7:02:30 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
A second dog has tested positive for coronavirus in Hong Kong days after the first to contract the disease died. A German shepherd living in the Pok Fu Lam area on Hong Kong Island was sent to quarantine along with another mixed-breed dog from the same residence.
It happened on Thursday after their owner was confirmed as being infected, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said in a statement. The mixed breed dog did not test positive for the virus and neither dog wwas showing any symptoms. The department added that it will continue to monitor both dogs and conduct repeated tests on the animals.
The Hong Kong government has since urged people not to abandon their pets and to stop kissing them. However they stressed that there is currently no evidence that pets can be a source of the virus or that they can get ill from it.
They also added that owners should not use the virus outbreak as a reason to abandon their pets. It comes after the pet dog of a coronavirus patient - also in Hong Kong - was the first to be confirmed as infected with the disease, in a likely case of human-to-animal transmission. The canine - who died two days after being released from quarantine - had repeatedly tested 'weak positive' for the new coronavirus and it was quarantined at an animal centre.
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My cats don’t go outside. So unless I give it to them, they’re not getting it.
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I see what you did there.
Well played.
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They don't want to tell people their pets are going to get it. Whoever says that is a dead man/woman walking in this country.
And here I thought it was because the source was full of crap.
The dogs are getting sick from it, though, nor are they dying from it. The animal that died was 17 and died at home after being released back to it’s owner.
The real question is, are they shedding virus that can transmit back to humans while they are showing the weak positive.
The dogs aren’t getting sick from it, is what I intended to say.
If they come for my dogs, they die at the doorstep!
If I were forced to wear pink pajamas and an unmatched brown muzzle in public, I would choose to die, virus or no virus!/s
An old friend of mine told me how they ate the Russian guard dog for Christmas Dinner in 1948 while he was a POW in Siberia. (He was captured by the Russians May 8, 1945 and shipped to Siberia as a POW until 1952. He eventually befriended the Russians and they sent him back to GDR (East Germany) as a spy in the Stasi)
Sorry, didn’t realize the muzzle was gray and matched the booties!
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