• Iraglassceiling [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I’m Hexbear’s local veterinarian and I approve this message.

    In case you need another reason to keep your house from smelling like cat shit:

    Feline coronavirus (not that one, but a close cousin) is a relatively benign, very common virus that turns into a fatal disease called FIP after a few cycles of re-infection. The best way we know to prevent those cycles of reinfection is to clean feces from the litterbox at minimum every 18-24 hours, because that’s the length of time the virus has to hang out in the environment before it can reinfect your cat.

    Fun fact: Remdesivir was first (basically) developed to treat FIP.