Here’s an unusual question, sorry if too off topic but... I have livestock guardian puppies (5 weeks) and my neighbors kids want to pet them. I know these poor kids are bored to death so I’m not going to stop them, but how do I protect myself after... wear gloves to the barn?
Bored to death is nothing compared to six feet under death. Don’t let them pet your dogs. Sorry, life lessons must be learned. They stay on their side of the fence and you and the pups stay on your side. No exceptions.
The Weather Channel has a tab at the top of their site labeled “Coronavirus” which has a graph over the past month of cases.
TX has gone from 0 to 4669 cases and 70 deaths in less than a month. That’s horrific.
Think of the virus like a tick. Just waiting there, waving it’s little arms around begging for a ride. We probably don’t want this virus around livestock, since it came about zoologically to begin with. Stop them. Tell them the puppies can’t be petted and cuddled until they have their next shots.
or, how do you feel about having to shampoo all the dogs and every animal in the barn each time the dogs are petted...what do you want to risk, in the name of being ‘nice’? I don’t mean to sound harsh, but we don’t know yet if this ‘airborne’ virus can transfer back to livestock. We do know that dogs can carry it in their nose at least for a time, and dogs touch animals with..their nose. This virus sucks.
“my neighbors kids want to pet them.”
I’m not even close to being an expert, but that seems like a bad idea — not just for you, but for the puppies. If it’s true that animal-human contact could have been involved in starting this — I don’t know — I’d be wary.