Pets

It's a pet's life: The Book of Dog and Cat People are heartening accounts of fur babies and their pet parents

In the pages of both books, I found people who laughed at their pets’ silly antics, shed tears when they fell sick, indulged in their every whim, wrote them poetry, and treated them better than they did themselves.

Fossilized jaw bone showed domesticated dogs, humans lived together in Central America 12,000 years ago

The presence of humans during the Pleistocene has been attested in Mexico, Chile and Patagonia, but never in Central America, until now.

On pandemic pets as a 'furry annuity' for the next decade: What trend means for pet-care industry

Americans spent a record $103.6 billion on their pets last year, up 7% from 2019, as more people sought the comfort of a furry friend during the pandemic, according to the American Pet Products Association.

Pet parenting in a pandemic: Caring for a fur child during the COVID-19 crisis has its comforts — and challenges

What this pandemic has taught us about pet parenting is how our vocabularies are not robust enough to capture the profundity of the bonds we share with our fur-children.

Explainer: How does COVID-19 affect wild animals and pets?

Animals in zoos and sanctuaries have tested positive, including lions, tigers, pumas, cougars, snow leopards and non-human primates like gorillas.

Cats, dogs can catch COVID-19, but cats’ immune systems are better equipped to fight off infection, study says

Cats shed the virus and infect other cats while infected dogs in the new study didn’t produce the virus in their upper respiratory tracts and didn’t shed it at all.

WHO says there is 'very little risk' that pets can infect their owners with COVID-19

Soumya Swaminathan, WHO chief scientist, told a Geneva news conference that felines, ferrets and "even tigers" have been infected with the disease.

Two pet cats, from New York, have tested positive for Coronavirus after getting infected by their owners

CDC has stressed that there’s no need for pet owners to panic, or rush to test their animals.

Study finds that cats, ferrets can be infected by Coronavirus, WHO to look into transmission between pets and humans

Infected cats had the virus in the mouth, nose and small intestine while kittens had massive lesions in their lungs, nose and throat.

Hong Kong dog causes panic – but here's why you needn't worry about pets spreading COVID-19

For a number of different viruses human-to-dog transmission is theoretically possible but human-to-human spread is much more efficient.