As many owners worry about who would care for their pets if they are quarantined with the novel coronavirus, companies and organizations in Japan are struggling to provide relief, with an insurance firm starting to watch over dogs and cats for free.An animal shelter in Gunma Prefecture received an email from an elderly woman in March. She had contracted a fever and with no immediate family wanted to leave her 17-year-old cat with the shelter in the event that she was infected with the virus and had to self-isolate.Although her fever was gone within a few days and the shelter did not take ca…READ FULL ARTICLE
