{"id":853,"date":"2026-02-01T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:39:38","slug":"cat-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/cat-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet cat helps discover a new virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-854\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/pet-cat-discovers-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-854 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.33.46-AM-300x167.png\" alt=\"Pet cat helps discover a new virus\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.33.46-AM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.33.46-AM-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.33.46-AM-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.33.46-AM-1536x854.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.33.46-AM-2048x1138.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PopSci\/John Lednicky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;Pepper the cat is at it again. After his hunting skills helped virologists identify the first jeilongvirus in the United States, the virus-hunting feline has detected a new strain orthoreovirus&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/pet-cat-discovers-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pepper the cat is at it again. After his hunting skills helped virologists identify the first jeilongvirus in the United States, the virus-hunting feline has detected a new strain orthoreovirus&#8230;.\u201d More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-cat-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}