Posted on 11/05/2009 4:07:08 PM PST by dynachrome
Vets in the US state of Iowa said Wednesday that a household cat had tested positive for swine flu -- the first known case in the world of the new pandemic strain spreading to the feline population. The domestic shorthair, a 13-year-old castrated male, apparently caught A(H1N1) off its owners -- two of the three members of the family had previously contracted the deadly virus.
"This is the first cat that we are aware of with the pandemic H1N1," said Brett Sponseller, an assistant professor of veterinarian microbiology who helped treat the pet at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
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The cat caught swine flu “off its owners”? Good grief! Such awful writing here.
h1n1 kitty ping article
The family noticed when the cat started wearing a mask, and acted like a Cat Gurgler...
The family noticed when the cat first coughed up a flu-ball...
The family noticed when the cat scratched H1N1 in it’s litter box...
The family noticed when they ruled out every other member of the family from calling the CDC Cat Center...
The family noticed when they saw the cat stumbling down the hall with an empty bottle of Nyquil back on the bathroom floor...
The family noticed when the cat’s singing voice started breaking on high-c instead of high-g...
The family got suspicious when the cat put on the clothes and sunglasses of the youngest member of the family and tried to follow close behind when they went in for their H1N1 inoculations...
Cat-astrophe?
“This is the first cat that we are aware of with the pandemic H1N1,” said Brett Sponseller, an assistant professor of veterinarian microbiology who helped treat the pet at Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.”
I don’t believe one word these academe say...
Kitty flu ping!
A few years ago a couple of our cats caught a cold that my wife and I were sharing. It was funny to hear them sneezing along with us.
That’s the “feline flu”, or “f’line flu” for short.
Dogs and cats don’t have to worry about gathering, capturing, and eating other preformed Vitamin C. They don’t care where their next grapefruit will come from because they make all the Vitamin C they need inside their own personal chemical factory.
http://www.thepetcenter.com/article.aspx?id=3405
Indiana Pigs test positive for H1N1-First time H1N1 virus found in pigs http://tinyurl.com/yfztc9w
Pet ferret dies of H1N1 in Nebraska http://tinyurl.com/ygyluhe
For everything I’ve done for my cats, if I get the Mexican swine flu and give it to them I’ll call it even.
I CAREZ!
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