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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is not a single case of pet to human transmission. Not one confirmed case. 
- vet[/quote]

OP here, THis is my final post on this topic.

First: Vet, There are confirmed cases of animal to human transmission, minks to human. And you know as well as I do that at one time there was no confirmed case, not one, of human to animal transmission, and now there is. As a doctor, you know absence of evidence is not equal to evidence of absence, but it can be a good guess, considering other variables.

[b]Here is the piece of info I need to confirm my concern.[/b] I just got off the phone with a vet in my old neighborhood. This person is a respected vet with a high traffic practice.

They have put a stringent policy in place in addition to no contact and curbside dropff for the humans, which is to to 1) separate animals from each other by two kennels worth if they are being held preoperatively 2) operating from prep to surgery ONE animal at a time, as opposed to standard practice of having techs prep animals in one area, and then move to surgery to prep another animal et  3) of course sterilizing between all visits

and WHY? "we are very concerned about animals giving it to each other and [b]us catching it from the animals[/b]. Dr, B is not satisfied with the state guidelines. We get complaints from  people who dont appreciate the way we are doing things, and a select few who appreciate all the cautions we are taking".

So, vet, another vet seems to think its possible. Make of that what you will. Im taking my dog to a vet that takes serious things seriously and not sit around waiting for empirical evidence.

Lets take a nostalgic look back at what not having empirical evidence in hand has allowed to take place.

People without symptoms were never ever tested. We now know that screwed us all over ROYALLY.

We continue to not apply common sense cautions where evidence is lacking AND we continue to not apply caution where evidence is abundant.

So by all means, we *can* wait till we have proof of dog to dog transmission of covid and ignore the fact that we already have proven cat to cat transmission and ferret to ferret transmission and not simply draw some basic hypothetical possibilties. I mean, or, we can just assume this transmission is possible, and treat animals with the same caution we do people.

And of course we can simply wait until the first pet to human case is documented and ignore the fact that minks can infect humans, that minks can be pets, that ferrets are like minks, and ferrets ARE pets, OR, we can assume its possible that dogs can give it to people just like we assume people can give it to people, including asymptomatically.

Our nations state with covid is due in part to people posturing over others that they know more about what is and isn't a problem, and we are showing NO signs of improving our situation. The animal models are behind, but what is there is concerning enough for some vets to take some extra precautions to save lives, animal and human.

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