Is this why all there have been a bunch of “cats catching covid” stories over the last year, but hardly any about dogs?
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Yes, cats genuinely are able to catch the novel coronavirus and get respiratory disease - all Felidae, in fact… I was just reading a case report about an outbreak in the Bronx zoo amongst the lions there.
Evidence is sketchy but it seems likely most transmission is human to cat rather than the other way round. As far as I’m aware the sporadic dog reports of it are likely picking up the virus being physically carried by the dog rather than true infection, although I may be out of date here as there’s been quite of lot of research on covid for some reason.
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TB is a very common zoonosis (disease that transfers between animals and humans), and yes, the South West of the UK is riddled with it. When working there for a good 6 years we did loads of TB sampling and screening on cattle slaughterhouses.
Regarding Covid being transmitted through animals, Lordof1 is on the money, so far they are not more a danger to humans than any other contaminated surface could be.
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Kansas is not even in the top five flatest US states. The flatest US state is Florida, by a long ways, followed by Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Delawhere. Kansas is slightly flatter than Texas (which has terrain, but also lots and lots and lots fo flat to make up for it.)
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Kansas is definitely flatter than California was.
In the early days of the first UK ‘lockdown’ there were a few Panic More! items about cats spreading it. Initially I was uneasy about the potential increase in casual or recreational beastliness to cats. But that didn’t seem to catch on, for once.
Then I was briefly uneasy about the Oaf’s tendency to try and crawl up my nose as the Standard Morning Greeting, but since there really is nothing that can be Done about said Oaf, I became resigned and fatalistic, shortly followed by sceptical and even blasée about him being a likely vector.
Burn the witch, if you choose, but leave the Cat alone.
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It had been a long time since we had her properly groomed so was overgrown and a bit matted in places. (Bad dog owners, I know…) So she’s been shorn down to the minimum, pretty much.
There’s practically nothing left of her!! (90% floof!)
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Now you knit yourself another dog.
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If we combined the amount she’s been shedding over the floors with the amount shorn off, we could probably fill a decent sized duvet at least! 
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That’s a very persuasive-looking puppy 
I hope your games are above chewing height!
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They are for now
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What do pub dogs retire to? Herding sheep?
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In this case, the landlord (who’s not terribly well – COVID hospitalisation followed by major lung surgery) is going to live with one of his children, and the dogs are going too.
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