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Even if the virus is transferable between species, pets aren’t a particularly worrying vector. Most pets only have contact with a few humans, and those humans
by parsimo2010 7y ago
Even if the virus is transferable between species, pets aren’t a particularly worrying vector. Most pets only have contact with a few humans, and those humans usually already have contact with each other.
Places like kennels and dog parks can increase the pet to pet transmission, but if a city locks down then those opportunities decrease as well. So worrying about pets won’t change any of our current approaches.
- mettamage 7y agoHow about Istanbul? Loads of street cats there.
- parsimo2010 7y agoStreet cats and most other feral animals in a city don’t have a lot of contact with humans, otherwise they get captured. Even with people leaving food out for them they do their own social distancing pretty well. You nearly need a death cult trying to get the disease before feral animals are a big enough problem to direct policy.
- slightwinder 7y agoIs capturing even a thing in Istanbul? AFAIK they maintain a very friendly relationship between humans and cats.