[Chanticleer]

It looks like dogs are not susceptible, but cats are. Cats as bird flu pandemic detectors

Cats, not canaries, will serve as sentinels for bird flu, said Dr. Lewis. There are 70 million cats in America, which makes them more common than songbirds and a more reliable source of information. An H5N1 outbreak at a Thai zoo laid waste to its tiger population, which had been fed infected chickens, revealing the feline vulnerabilities to the virus. So far, dogs have not proven susceptible to bird flu.

[LucyT]

Yikes ping.

[MI]

Time to cull the cats!

[Slings and Arrows]

It looks like dogs are not susceptible, but cats are.

See post #4 for details. Yikes!

[Thanks to LucyT for the heads-up.]

[Grendel9]

Now you've hit upon another debatable
point. I've read/heard on the news
repeatedly that the disease is NOT
transferred through eating cooked
poultry, but only through close contact
while the birds are fully feathered.
Would the zoo have fed their tigers
whole uncooked chickens? Well, come
to think of it, they feed them uncooked
horse meat, so maybe they would.