It is so weird to me how news and health officials handled the animal part of the covid thing from the start. They seemed to really want people to think pets could not spread it before there was an evidence either direction, multiple times saying "there is no evidence it can spread to pets", but they also weren't testing animals much till fairly recently. I can only guess they were trying to prevent people from panic.
I would assume that touching animals would be pretty low chance of spread, even less than an inanimate surface, since coronavirus survives cold longer than heat. Unless possibly a cat that had just got done grooming itself because their saliva is all over? That's probably why cats pass it more than dogs? I really don't know, just some educated guesses. I'm not sure why anyone would freak out regardless unless they keep their animals outside long periods of time unattended though, where would the animal get it from if not their human owners? Maybe that's also why cats more than dogs, because a lot of people let their cats roam around outside. Hamsters though? Where the heck are hamsters getting covid from?
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