Most breeders (at least those who care) keep a bottle of alcohol based hand sanitizer on their table. NOBODY touches an animal without using the sanitizer first! At the expo I attended this past weekend, I even saw breeders use sanitizer between handling their own animals.

Steve

edit - Gotta go back to school and take another typing class!!! Jo, you're too quick for me!


Quote Originally Posted by Kristy
I was just thinking. There are a lot of shows/expos, there are a lot of Buyers/Sellers and a lot of reptiles. I know there are some very reputable people in this industry who wouldn't sell a sick animal or even ponder taking one to a show. Then there are vendors who bring in animals who are carrying diseases whether they know or not such as IBD. My question is how do you as vendors protect your animals from transmission? I mean its got to be possible to transmit some stuff, you have a lot of people, around the animals, buyers handling animals, not washing their hands, then handling someone elses animals, possible spreading something around.

Do you not let people handle the animals? Or are their certain precautions you take to prevent things like IBD being tossed around at shows?

Just curious, I haven't been to show (will go in OCT. ) so I don't know how they work. I would be concerned with my animals health.
Kristy