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News Articles: cats

Can cuddling or kissing a pet put you at risk of contracting an unknown virus? Can people pass a virus to pets? Those are questions that pet owners ponder. And if Centu (left) and Ruby (right) could talk, they'd probably ask as well.

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  • Global Health

You asked: Can we catch a new virus from a pet? A cat-loving researcher has an answer

What's the risk of contracting a surprising virus from Fido or Kitty? It's not a frivolous question, as one virologist explains. And there's another question: Can you give a virus to your pet?

March 15, 2023
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Larry the Cat is seen in front of No. 10 Downing St. on July 5, 2022. He has now been on the job as Chief Mouser at the British prime minister's official residence for a dozen years.

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  • Animals

Larry the Cat celebrates 12 years of dutiful service at No. 10 Downing St.

The Chief Mouser of No. 10, the London residence and home office of Britain's prime minister, began his lengthy term in February 2011.

February 16, 2023
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
Humane Society Naples CEO Sarah Baeckler (center holding crate) helps load cats aboard a plane in Naples, Fla., on Monday. The group is getting ready for "an influx of surrendered animals" from Hurricane Ian, she says.

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  • Animals

Hurricane Ian's havoc is forcing some Florida families to give up the family pet

A shelter run by the Humane Society Naples is flying cats and dogs out of state to make room for a wave of new arrivals from families whose homes were destroyed and are now unable to care for a pet.

October 04, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
A screenshot of a map showing case counts of COVID-19 reported in different animal species, part of an interactive <a href="https://vis.csh.ac.at/sars-ani/#infections">COVID data tracking dashboard</a> rendered by Complexity Science Hub Vienna. The drawings represent the type of animal, including both domestic and wild; the size of the bubbles reflects the number of cases in each locale.

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  • Global Health

How many animal species have caught COVID? First global tracker has (partial) answers

Just as human counts are incomplete, so are animal counts. But the first worldwide compilation of animal cases is a start at understanding the extent of human-to-animal transmission, scientists say.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
Rowdy the cat is shown here after being captured on Wednesday at Logan Airport in Boston. The cat escaped her cage as her family was returning to the U.S. after an Army deployment to Germany.

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  • Animals

Rowdy the runaway cat is caught after weeks on the lam at Boston's airport

Rowdy, a 4-year-old black cat with green eyes, escaped her cage on June 24. She eluded airport and airline personnel, animal experts and safe-release traps until Wednesday.

July 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Rowdy the cat is shown here after being captured on Wednesday at Logan Airport in Boston. The cat escaped her cage as her family was returning to the U.S. after an Army deployment to Germany.

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  • Animals

Rowdy the runaway cat is caught after weeks on the lam at Boston's airport

Rowdy, a 4-year-old black cat with green eyes, escaped her cage on June 24. She eluded airport and airline personnel, animal experts and safe-release traps until Wednesday.

July 13, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A Ukrainian girl and her cat wait at the platform inside Lviv railway station in Ukraine on Sunday. An international cat federation is banning Russian cats from its competitions for the next three months over its invasion of Ukraine.

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  • Animals

The 'United Nations of cat federations' bans Russian cats from its competitions

The Fédération Internationale Féline is temporarily placing restrictions on cats that were bred in Russia or belong to exhibitors who live there, in response to its attack on Ukraine.

March 03, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Jessica Gerson-Neeves and her wife have been mired in a standoff for weeks with their three cats over a Vitamix blender.

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  • Animals

3 cats have outmaneuvered their 2 humans to hold a blender hostage for weeks

Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves don't want to end the standoff that has brought joy to so many people. But they also want to use their blender, which has been in a box in their kitchen since December.

January 14, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Staff members at the Kabul Small Animal Rescue are working to put together travel crates so the organization's dogs and cats can safely be evacuated out of Afghanistan.

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  • Animals

An Animal Rescue Group Is Racing To Get Hundreds Of Pets Out Of Afghanistan By Aug. 31

Kabul Small Animal Rescue's American director is raising money to airlift more than 200 dogs and cats, the group's staff and their families before foreign troops leave at the end of the month.

August 25, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
For one Englishwoman, her pet black cat (different from the one pictured here) was very lucky indeed.

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  • Animals

A Cat Led A Rescue Team To An 83-Year-Old Woman Who Had Fallen Down A Ravine

The black cat, Piran, stayed by where the woman had fallen and meowed until a neighbor discovered them at the edge of a cornfield in Cornwall, England, over the weekend.

August 17, 2021
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By:
  • Josie Fischels

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  • Health

COMIC: Adopted Pandemic Dogs Got Us Through. Now They Need Our Help

Dog and cat adoptions climbed in 2020. Pets have been constant companions — easing our grief and fears. Now it's our turn to ease dogs' separation anxiety, as we head back out into the world.

June 19, 2021
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  • Sarah Mirk
A cicada that have been living underground reemerges in Washington in May.

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  • Animals

No, You Don't Need To Be Worried Your Dog (Or Cat) Is Eating Cicadas

An expert weighs in on the potential harm of this summer's most prominent critters when dogs or cats eat them

June 05, 2021
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Ash the cat selects the Kanizsa square stimulus — in other words, the illusion of a square — in a new study in which pet owners provided the data.

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  • Science

Cats Take 'If I Fits I Sits' Seriously, Even If The Space Is Just An Illusion

If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion.

May 10, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A researcher with Franceville International Medical Research Centre collects bats in a net on November 25, 2020 inside a cave in Gabon. Scientists are looking for potential sources for a possible next coronavirus pandemic.

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  • Global Health

Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans

Researchers worry another coronavirus will spill over from a bat or some other creature. They're hunting for sources — and finding evidence that a new pandemic could be around the corner.

March 19, 2021
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Patches is reunited with Norm Borgatello, her late owner's partner, at the Animal Shelter Assistance Program in Santa Barbara County, Calif., on Dec. 31.

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  • Animals

The Cat Who Came Back: Patches, Believed Killed In Mudslide, Shows Up 3 Years Later

A calico cat thought to have died with her owner in the mudslides that swept through California's Santa Barbara County in 2018 has been found and reunited with her late owner's partner.

January 14, 2021
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  • Elena Moore
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