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I want to train my silkies to walk on a leash. I also have a mostly blind/disabled Pekin duckling I want to train (but she has a hard time walking).@Mybackyardpeepers Thanks! They certainly are fun! I've been thinking of training them to wear harnesses for even more fun (well, so they can come in the unfenced front yard with me when I'm working there).
@KDOGG331 lol no problem! (Vet tech mode, go!)
Yes technically reptiles can carry salmonella...but so can chickens, and guinea pigs, and a lot of other creatures. Every single animal can carry some disease or parasite that we humans can catch. Dogs carry all sorts of worms, as well as stuff like leptospirosis and rabies. Cats can transfer ringworm, toxoplasma, and cat scratch fever. Even small tropical fish can transmit some pretty funky fungal infections.
As long as you keep their environment clean, remove any waste within a timely fashion, keep the animals healthy and parasite-free, and wash your hands after handling them, there's really a pretty low risk of contracting things from animals.
From what little unscientific research I've done, it's pretty rare for a human to get a disease from a pet reptile and mostly seems concentrated to cases where proper cleanliness was not observed and/or the person in question was immunocompromised. In all my years of working with animals and owning different species the only thing I've ever caught was ringworm from a shelter cat, which is pretty much guaranteed to happen to all veterinary professionals at some point .
@KDOGG331 Yeah people get really weird about how serious they think disease risk is based on how much they like the animal in question .