covid and cats

[thefiresidecat]

we just got the bad news we have covid. we have four cats. pretty sure we've had covid for a few days now. would you isolate your cats or just continue as is? hubby thinks just as is. I don't know. thinking as is because it's already been a few days now and we were prob contagious before symptoms. but.. I mean its really really rare for cats to get sick yeah?

 

[margecat]

Hubby and I had it last month. We didn't do anything special with the cats, and they are ok.

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[neely]

I agree with your hubby. I had Covid awhile back and my husband had it last year. We didn't do anything different and our cat was fine. I did wash my hands thoroughly before giving him his nightly med but once again he was alright.

 

[denice]

I hadn't heard much about domesticated cats getting really sick with COVID. The original virus did hit the big cats in zoos, the Columbus zoo lost their tiger to the original virus. The virus has changed as has immunities in people and animals so I haven't heard about big cats being seriously affected by it in a while.