Dog and cat owners with coronavirus have been recommended to stay away from their pets to avoid transmission by a professor.
A new study suggests pets can catch the killer virus and can even come down with symptoms.Researchers in Canada started investigating when several pets were reported to have respiratory symptoms at the same time their owner was suffering from the virus.As part of the research, which was unveiled at the ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease, blood works were taken from pets living with symptomatic or infected people during a two-week period.It discovered that a "substantial proportion of pets” inhabiting Covid-19 positive households had antibodies for the strain.