Give the love you find

"be so full that even if they take & take & take & take you can still be overflowing" Alison Malee

[ymutate]

Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851–1917)

"Caesar at the Rubicon", 1880.

Oil on Canvas, 48.5 × 61.5 cm.

Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, Austria.

[books-in-order]

Service dogs training to sit through a movie at a theater.

[thefaeriefolk]

[shes-clueing-for-looks]

4 of 8 of The Complete Flower Fairies Box Set- By Cicely Mary Barker

Printed by The Folio Society

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[deanwasalwaysbi]

This is the perfect moment for Vine to do the funniest thing possible

[radicalgraff]

"No more billionaires. No more CEO's"

Seen in Calgary, Canada

[catchymemes]

[pukicho]

People: “what happens after death? Must we truly be judged for an existence of afterlife with but a measly 80 years of Earthtly-experience? Could heaven truly be so unfairly tailored?”

All other animals: I pissed on that so it’s mine. I love to shit!!!!!

[aestheticsofartt]

[dduane]

I’m such a tile geek.

[slayerbuffy]

‘GILMORE GIRLS’ the lorelais’ first day at chilton (1x02).

[fanonical]

vernon: yeah i'd punch a wizard

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Allow yourself to be a beginner. No-one starts off being excellent.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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[journey-to-dvm]

@people in human medicine: bet you can’t say you’ve had a patient come in because they ate staples lol

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

[drferox]

Coronavirus and Animals

There’s a lot of talk about Coronavirus at the moment, and a lot of misinformation in these early days while data is still being gathered, so lets clear some things up.

There is more than one coronavirus. Coronavirus is a family, there’s a bunch of them, and many have been well known for a jolly long time. 

COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) is the illness caused by SARS-CoV-2, it’s relatively new and it’s what we’re all worried about. 

The COVID-19 virus was detected in one, single dog in Hong Kong, owned by a human who was infected with the virus. This dog continued to have low levels of the virus detectable in its mouth for several days, never showed any signs of clinical disease, and so far (March 12th local time) has not demonstrated a serological response. 

So it appears that while COVID-19 can exist in dogs, if it does so it is the dog getting infected from its human, and there is no evidence that they then transmit the illness on to other humans. Think of the dog’s mouth like unwashed human hands - the virus can be there, but hasn’t actually infected the hands.

Current advice is to keep suspect pets with their owners if they are in self-quarantine, and wash your hands after handling. Also, don’t let your pets lick your face if you have any cold or flu symptoms.

More info below cut, including other species.

Keep reading

[drferox]

Reports are in that the single dog which tested positive for the virus causing COVID-19 has died, but this is NOT cause for alarm.

The dog never showed any symptoms despite being carefully watched.

They repeatedly tested negative for days before release, and continued to show now symptoms.

They were 17 years old, which is an advanced age for any dog, even a pomeranian.

So while this might hit the news, and potentially irresponsible media reporting, it’s still really zero concern.

[drferox]

Updates as of 1st of April 2020, and these are NOT April Fools related in any way.

The Hong Kong dog did have evidence of antibodies to COVID-19, though never any symptoms and never any evidence that it was capable of transmitting it.

There is one case of a cat in Belgium that has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and is unwell with both respiratory and gastrointestinal signs. This is still early days and waiting for more info, but it was owned by a COVID-19 infected owner and appears to have picked up the infection from the owner in close contact.

The virus can experimentally replicate in the nose of ferrets. There is no known natural occurrence of this so far, but if you experimentally squirt the virus up ferret noses it’s quite capable of replicating there, and their tonsils. Not a peer reviewed study, because peer reviews take time but worthy of a ‘watch this space’ flag when dealing with ferrets owned by infected people.

The above study is small and not peer reviewed, but suggests while cats and ferrets have some susceptibility, dogs are less susceptible, and pigs and poultry are very resistant. However, when you consider the sheer numbers of domestic pets in contact with hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 cases worldwide, the risks from animals is infinitesimally low and no evidence yet that they can transmit, though some may potentially be able to be infected by humans.

Just keep washing your hands, and don’t let pets lick your face. The numbers are still incredibly low in the real world (Three. There are three cases.) but we are watching this space.

Mostly to ensure there wont be any sort of animal/wildlife reservoir for COVID-19 to hide in when we do look at getting it under control or eradicated.