Essential oils are incredibly dangerous to use around nearly any animal, and I have personally seen several pets of different species brought into my work for emergency treatment after coming into contact with anything from tea tree to eucalyptus to citronella to lavender. The only animal I can think of off the top of my head that is okay with EO's would be a horse. We have had a few different herps come in for treatment after coming into contact with cedar, even diluted. Cedar will sicken or kill just about anything, tea tree will drop your cat dead in under an hour and make your dog vomit itself into a coma, catnip oil will RIP your sugar gliders, and pretty much anything can cause irritation of skin and respiratory system in reptiles and other small animals, which is the reason we don't use aromatic bedding for our herps. I'd need to do some more research as my practice doesn't deal with herps very often but it is possible, just because of the global locations of the plants, that tea tree and eucalyptus may be safe for some reptiles in such diluted quantity as they would encounter in the wild IE brushing up against the leaves of the eucalyptus tree they are climbing, etc. Reptiles are not people. If you sprinkle salt on your skin, it doesn't hurt you. Sprinkle it on your gecko and you will probably kill it. Never liken herps to humans, we are not the same and we do not have the same tolerances for things. When I was a kid, my mom used to put lavender on our pillowcases to help us sleep, and while I never put my snake directly on my pillow, he did live in the same room and he never exhibited any distress from it. I was always very careful with him though because he was extremely expensive (at the time) and always washed my hands before handling him. Him being a LTC/GTP, and me being a small child, he was more of a display animal than a pet, so I didn't take him out much anyway.
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