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Okay... so I broke the law...

But who can resist kitty luvins?
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Aahhhaaaaaaa
Ain't that sweet!!
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moonshadow wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:45 pm Okay... so I broke the law...

But who can resist kitty luvins?
Not me! Seriously thinking of saying screw the landlord's rules about no pets. At least while the virus is around, he can't evict me.
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I had two on the bed this morning, cats that is....

We were at a very social distance!!!
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We have stocks of poultry feed and storage for hay & straw for the donkeys. Normally a habitat for rats, these don't get a look in as we keep four cats in two pairs, which I have never seen socialise with each other. We feed them in their respective living spaces, one pair in the large barn, the other pair in the 'cat-barn', or large-ish shed behind the glasshouse near the little stables and poultry food store.

When I feed them they are of course very friendly and like to cuddle. One adventurer crosses the conservatory roof & mounts my West windowsill thus gaining access to my bedroom. Harmless enough, but I need to remember to close that window as they are not encouraged to visit the house.

We also keep five dogs, but they can't climb, fortunately, but the big ones need regular walking. Yesterday was a lovely sunny Spring day and resting on our boathouse jetty after some strenuous donkey shed mucking-out, I was entertained by two of said dogs who jumped in and swim across to the island, out across that, over the bridge, right round to the boathouse again and a running repeat dive in. After about half a dozen such circuits they were well exercised, while I just watched.

They all meet no-one but family members, so social distancing doesn't apply.

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Do be carefull as the animals falling in the category of "cats" ( e.g. the lion in NY) seem to be prone to catching the nasty virus also!
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Well my "family" is my little furry collection of cats, as the cats are more social than I am I suppose that Gwen might bring the bug back for us to enjoy at some point. No point in worrying, that won't stop it. Today I am, for the first time in a few days, not skirted. Got a pair of shorts on, dragged my pushbike out of the shed, pumped the tyres up, dribbled on the chain (oil) and then the rain started, I intend going for a pedal today, to see if my heart can take it. Making the most of being on leave rather than working from home by spending an hour gasping, sweating and cycling very slowly! If the knee works that is. I will be okay, I checked all the local defibs yesterday!
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I believe that dogs originally had a corona virus and it mutated and transferred to cats. So my daughter has had some of her kittens catch a coronavirus and it can be deadly. It takes a lot of intensive care and medication to get kittens through this and in the early stages of the learning curve we lost a few kittens. Not nice and we can see why it is serious and lethal.
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I heard that the Corona Virus (Covid 19) came from bats in China.

It makes me wonder if we will ever know the truth how all of this
started and how humans started catching it and spreading it.
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Sinned wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:29 amI believe that dogs originally had a corona virus and it mutated and transferred to cats. So my daughter has had some of her kittens catch a coronavirus and it can be deadly. It takes a lot of intensive care and medication to get kittens through this and in the early stages of the learning curve we lost a few kittens. Not nice and we can see why it is serious and lethal.
The feline and canine coronaviruses are separate and distinct from this one that's currently making the rounds in the human population having jumped a species boundary in China. The "donor species" of SARS-CoV-2 may never be concretely identified.

Coronaviruses are a large class of viruses and most are either benign or species-specific. There is much speculation as to which species this new (to humans) one originated with, but it was likely mutating within that species before successfully jumping the boundary to humans -- and since this one is entirely new to the human species there is no natural immunity to it, hence the high contagiousness of it.

Back when my late ex- was breeding show-cats we had a bout of feline coronavirus hit us, and that was most assuredly not fun.
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