My Current Readings #6

An interesting article found on Wcco.com, by Jason DeRusha titled "Good Question: Can Our Pets Catch Our Colds?" Have you ever thought about this? When you're not feeling up to par, how are your pets feeling? Karen Greene, home with the mother of all head colds (quoted) seems to believe that her part spaniel and part beagle Finnegan is experiencing a runny nose, sneezing, and being a little lethargic. Coincidentally, Greene and her dog sneezed at the same time during this week, which provoked her for answers. She found that viruses that affect humans stay with humans and ones that affect animals stay with animals. Overall it really is very rare for viruses to be spread from a human to an animal. As well as we do, animals also have times of year that they get sick, timing is everything. Personally i have never put two and two together. When i am sick and at home i do snuggle with my dogs but i never tend to think "what if i am getting my dogs sick?" Luckily to find that this assumption is false, neither myself or any of us have anything to worry about. So when your sick, be with your animals all you want, especially if they make you feel better!