Tag: cats

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Two New York pet cats test positive for COVID-19; no evidence of animal-human contagion

  

  Two cats in New York have become the first pets in the United States to test positive for the new coronavirus but there is no evidence pets can spread the virus to humans, according to US health authorities.

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Australia plans to cull two million feral cats to save native wildlife

  

  Australia's federal government is once again in the spotlight for a years-old plan to cull 2 million feral cats by 2020, this time after details emerged about the reported use of poison-laced sausages to reduce the island's wild cat population.