How are you feeling? Ruff! Cocker Spaniel is swabbed for Covid-19 as South Korea begins testing pets that show coronavirus symptoms

UK Daily Mail ^ | 10 February 2021 | Emilia Jiang

[fruser1]

-An eight-year-old Cocker Spaniel in Seoul was seen receiving a swab for COVID

-South Korea has been conducting tests on pets showing coronavirus symptoms

-Authorities have ordered pets to be quarantined for 14 days if they test positive

-There is no evidence to suggest cats nor dogs can pass the virus on to humans

PICTURED: The eight-year-old female Cocker Spaniel living in Seoul underwent the procedure after suffering a runny nose.

She is pictured receiving a nasal swab from health workers today

[fruser1]

Are none of us are safe from the swab!?!

Vid at link.

[escapefromboston]

They want to make sure covid doesn’t get into their food supply

[libh8er]

And you thought pets didn’t like visiting the vet before.

[HotKat]

Thank God Ruff didn’t have to suffer the humiliation of an anal swab.

[monkeyshine]

There is no evidence to suggest cats nor dogs can pass the virus on to humans

But bats can?

[foreverfree]

Isn't Ruff the name of Dennis the Menace's sheep dog?

ff

[fruser1]

Actually it did. The anal swab is in the vid.

I believe they did use a different swab for the nose.

[Patriot Babe]

ROFL I was thinking the same

[HotKat]

I think that was a temperature check with a thermometer.