Tiger tests positive for COVID

Well that sucks - I thought animals weren't carrying it!? Ugh.

doomed!

Hopefully, it’s one of Carole’s and spreading.

Bats > pangolins > humans > tigers

How the hell can it re-cross species?

Will the tiger be okay?

Sorry you’ve been coughing for weeks and have a constant fever and you feel like an elephant is sitting on your chest, but we have to test this zoo animal.

^^ NO TEST FOR YOU.

The tiger is doing well, apparently.

I blame that stupid Netflix Tiger documentary which is going positively [italic]viral[/italic] everywhere right now!

I've been binge watching the Animal Planet show "The Zoo", about the Bronx zoo.

It was a real tonic after watching "Tiger King." Too sad.

How close do you think you have to get to a tiger to infect it? You would think being a large meat eating predator would always ensure a serious social distance between you and your human caretaker.

Maybe 6 feet isn’t enough.

Now the worry is that dumbass people are going to start turning their pets over to shelters, at least according to a friend that works at ASPCA.

Are we sure animals don’t carry tons of viruses found in humans? I mean, how many times are they testing them? They might be carrying everything and it’s not going to kill them.

2020 is truly the year of the tiger! I just hope I don’t give it to my cat. I don’t care about anybody else I come into daily contact with. My family lives in another city and luckily so do all my close friends.

And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night

And he's watchin' us all with the eyyyyyyye of the tiger

Tyger, tyger burning bright

COVID fever is thy blight

This crossing species seems like some serious shit to me but it was barely mentioned on the news.

In 2013, I had the flu (got a flu shot every year since then and haven’t had a bout like that again) and while I was sick I noticed my cat looked like she had a runny nose. I wake up one morning and she’s laying very still on the sofa. I went to her and held her and she died in my arms. I’m convinced that I gave her my flu and because she was about to turn 21 she couldn’t fight it off. I was devastated and angry that I was so ill that I didn’t notice before it was too late. I didn’t know cats could catch our illnesses.

Cows, pigs, chickens.

R20, that’s awful. I believe you. Sorry for your loss.

Thank you R22

Told you I was hardcore!

R14 that was my first thought 😡

[quote] How close do you think you have to get to a tiger to infect it?

6 feet is NOT enough. You really need to be over 20 feet away from each other. But the experts know that Americans are so fucking stupid they wouldn't know how far 23 feet is or even care. Aerosolized particles of the virus can travel up to 20 feet when someone sneezes.

This tiger must have been committing oral sex.

House cats can catch it.

But the ligers and the tions are safe? Joe’s crossbreeding will protect them right?

This is awful. But on the bright side there are millions of cats in shelters we can adopt after we kill our current house cats.

Dogs have caught Corona in China

Bestiality?

Bestiality in Show!

This is scary as hell.

Hopefully the tiger will be okay.

R16, 2020 is year of the rat. Year of the tiger starts on Feb 1, 2022.

every animal can catch a corona virus. This is a newer virus, hopefully they have more immunity than humans do.

I'm sorry for your loss, R20.

Hugs.

Does this mean I have to stop petting my pussy ?

If I were a tiger, could I get a damn test?

Tiger Woods?

Does this mean I have to put her up for adoption?

Noooo!

It came from animals, went to humans, now it has gone back to animals who will all die so we will all become vegetarians before we all die. Da End.

If it can go from animals to humans and back to animals again, we're fucked. It's like a never ending reservoir, we're not going to get rid of it.

Don't worry, bitches!

I've got the Eye of the Tiger!

R44, the flu and cold is like that. That’s why we can’t get rid of them, unlike smallpox, which only liked people. We could potentially develop a vaccine for the Coronavirus and just face a yearly infection, maybe, like the flu. We’ll know more as time goes on. I do wonder if it literally is the end of humanity, but it’s too early to know.

R20 I am so sorry that happened

Thanks People's Republic of China, so-calle cradle of civilization.

I’d love to know how they got a nasal swab from that tiger.

R48 The cradle of civilization is Mesopotamia, not China.

There was a guy who was living in Wuhan that was talking about his experience, he caught it before it was being reported on, and he said there was a kitten that he used to hang around every day and while he was sick, it suddenly died.

R50 You have obviously not been paying attention.

Yes, it does make you wonder how this thing spreads. No way that dude was right up on that tiger sneezing and wheezing.

If the Chinese could eat that Tiger COVID and all, they would. Meat for them is a status symbol.

R54 They like puppies the best, cause they’re so plump and tender.

Cats and dogs can get colds, but I've never heard about them getting any flu.

R20, even though you might've given your cat the flu it sounds like her death was very peaceful. I had to put down my 19-year-old cat two years ago at the vet. Even though she was unconscious during the car ride she woke up when the started examining her. She tried to get up and I had to gently hold her down when the vet gave her the first shot. Although I was petting her and being close she still realized she was at the vet which she had never liked. I had actually hoped the night before that she'd die next to me at home, at peace.

You have no need to feel bad about what happened. Your kitty's ending was probably the best a pet can get. A more or less peaceful passing at home and close to her loved one.

Thank heavens mosquitoes can't carry it. We'd truly all be toast then.

R58 that's probably next

R20 you gave your cat a great life and I agree she probably has one of the most peaceful deaths a pet can have.

R57 Oh for fucks sake it was a bloody cat. There's a BOGO at Petco, you pathetic frau.

No R58, a shockingly high proportion of mosquitos carry diseases like West Nile or St. Louis encephalitis but they don't actually infect that many people.

All that tiger needs is Siegfried & Robitussin!

I think the tiger probably caught it through the aerosol spray effect from the trainer speaking to the tiger through the cage. Nothing strange about that.

Because dumb ass Americans treat animals AS HUMANS! kiss kiss kiss!

My cat is old and has asthma, and my early social distancing and greater attention to cleanliness were done more for her benefit than mine. Since she's indoor-only, I just have to keep at it. There's really nothing else I can do.

Read the headline and thought it was about Tiger Woods for a sec

Now if cats can carry the virus, doesn't it make all the social distancing and sheltering in futile?

This is how Planet of the Apes starts.

So far, cats can catch the virus but not dogs.

R70, dogs can "catch" the virus. It doesn't cause active disease in them, as currently reported.

R69 Was that it, all the cats and dogs died of some virus or such, and they moved on to pet primates?

[quote][R57] Oh for fucks sake it was a bloody cat. There's a BOGO at Petco, you pathetic frau.

A) I'm a man, B) you're a cunt.

I feel bad for the tiger but the upshot of this news is that, because it so easily jumps species, it has orders of magnitude more opportunity to mutate into something truly devastating.

It basically means we're truly doomed, there will be no end to this.

Now we have a good reason to exterminate stray cats.

R74 It already has two of the trifecta- #1 highly transmissible and #2 novel (never been seen before.) If it mutates to a more lethal strain (#3) we’re truly fucked.

Free Joe Maldonado-Passage! He can serenade the sick tiger "I Saw A Tiger" and nurse it back to health.

The Tiger got it from a human?

R73, Don’t pay any attention to that dumb cunt.

Must’ve been R38 - I’ve got that useless gash on ignore.

Okay, so now that we know Covid-19 can infect other mammals, will the New York City government please start taking its rat infestation seriously? I hope the tiger fights this off, but I'm really much more concerned about the goddamned fucking rats that the City has ignored since the start of the Giuliani administration.

I W&W'd you, r7, but the truth is, it's much more important for that tiger to be tested right now.

There is no vaccine or cure-all you can do is isolate & monitor. Unless you're an essential worker, or are around/caring for vulnerable people, your outcome is the same. Most jurisdictions have public health screening to determine if you need a test.

Meanwhile, felines were always known to have Coronaviruses, but never to carry human ones. It's usually pigs & birds that become outbreak reservoirs. If that changed, that's a big deal. I'm sure epidemiologists are working on that behind the scenes. Public health authorities are not giving out the numbers on the virus itself anymore, only the deaths, number of cases and stats around those things. That worries me a bit.