"The vet said ‘he had sprained his tail from excessively wagging it’"

In recent days, Emma Smith and her family have been hunkering down at home to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. But while quarantine isn't many people's idea of a good time, there is one person in her family who feels differently.

Thousands of canine and feline specimens tested surfaced no positive results to date

These new test results align with the current expert understanding that COVID-19 is primarily transmitted person-to-person and supports the recommendation against testing pets for the COVID-19 virus. For dogs or cats presenting with respiratory signs, the recommendation is to contact a veterinarian to test for more common respiratory pathogens.

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses. Some coronaviruses cause cold-like illnesses in people, while others cause illness in certain types of animals, such as cattle, camels, and bats. Some coronaviruses, such as canine and feline coronaviruses, only infect animals and do not infect humans.

Sometimes the most precious gift in the world is the simplest one.

For Ezra, a stray dog who spent his life on the streets, that was somewhere soft and warm to sleep. And the smile on his face when he received his very first bed said it all.

Eleanor and her sister Tahani were taken in by Tiny Tails Rescue in Australia after they were left behind when their first family moved away. Kylie Duffield quickly took them in as fosters — and soon realized there was no way she could give them up, so the two kittens promptly became foster fails.