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 CDC's Healthy Pets, Healthy People Teaching Kit Lesson 3: Choosing the Right Pet
Audience Health professionals and other community workers who serve immunocompromised patients or clients. Time Approximately 50 minutes Objectives By the end of lesson one, the participants will be able to:
Overview The purpose of this lesson is to help health professionals provide specific recommendations on pet ownership to immunocompromised persons. Materials
Introduction (15 minutes) Provide participants with drawings of pets that were created in Lesson One. They should be cut down to size and have double-sided tape stuck on the back of each drawing. On the board, write the words "Risky" and "Safe". Suggested Script Welcome back, everyone, Imagine one of your immunocompromised patients or clients came up to you today and said, "I would like to get a pet to keep me company. What do you suggest?" Would you know which pets to recommend? Pass the handheld ball around the room and have participants provide their thoughts on which pets are risky and which are safe. Suggested Script During the last lesson, we discussed six pet-related diseases that are of concern to immunocompromised people. Now you will learn specific recommendations on pet ownership that you can provide to immunocompromised patients. By the end of this lesson, you should feel comfortable about which pets are considered "safe" and which are "risky". Body (30 minutes) Teach the following recommendations for safe vs. risky, using overheads Safer Pets Dogs
Cats
Birds
Risky Pets/Animals Reptiles, including lizards, snakes, turtles, and tortoises Amphibians, including frogs, toads, newts and salamanders Puppies and kittens Baby chicks and ducklings Farm animals Any animals that have clinical signs of sustained diarrhea Suggested Script Each of you has a "stick" pet from the first lesson. From what you just learned, take the pet and stick it under "Safe" or "Risky" on the board. Review the animals up on the board and make any necessary corrections. Show the slides covering pet-related recommendations from CDC.
Conclusion (5 minutes) Suggested Script Great job, everyone. In the last lesson, you leaned specific diseases pets can carry that may be harmful to people. This week, you learned pet ownership recommendations for immunocompromised people. However, you patients may have further questions about pets and zoonoses. To help you answer these questions, I will show you the wide array of resources currently available on the health risks and benefits of pet ownership for immunocompromised persons. Hopefully, these resources will be helpful in your clinics and institutions.
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