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There’s no question that stay-at-home orders have impacted pets and their owners. Now, a new survey from Banfield Pet Hospital reveals how, and to what degree. The results show a paradigm shift, the effects of which are likely to change how people view and care for their pets for a long time to come.  

If that headline gives you déjà vu (“Didn’t the first dog in the US already test positive for SARS-CoV-2? Like, a month ago?”), you’re probably thinking of Winston.

This week: Frank talk about racial discrimination, the USDA beefs up guidelines for dog sellers, and pet ambulance in name only. 

Cats with SARS-CoV-2 can give it to other cats. That’s according to researchers who infected cats  with SARS-CoV-2  to see what would happen when those cats were exposed to other, uninfected cats.

“We’re not a profession that does a good job at rapid change, but almost overnight we completely changed how we practice medicine.”

Are you ready for another pandemic? Not later, after this one is over—right now. Because it is a possibility. And it starts with pigs.

If you want to help stop the spread of COVID, the kind of mask you wear is critical.  

There have only been three dogs in the world who have officially tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 so far. The only one in the US has died.

This week: The FDA approves chewable tabs for canine congestive heart failure, a new veterinary school is slated to open next year, and COVID has changed the way people and pets shelter during a hurricane.

A couple of Canadian researchers may have figured out why cats get COVID and dogs don’t: a mutation in the gene that provides a vector for the novel coronavirus.