Normal body temperature for a cat — about 38.5 degrees. The deviation from this figure can testify to a disease of an animal. Often the first symptoms of a disease are quite so shown. So if there were doubts in health of the pet, it is necessary to measure immediately to it temperature.
It is required to you
- thermometer,
- cream or vaseline,
Instruction
1. The cat or a cat has to have own thermometer. To use the family thermometer for measurement of temperature not only it is not hygienic, but also it is dangerous. Parasites, quite harmless for them, but very unpleasant for people quite often meet at animals. It is better if the thermometer is not mercury. The cat will hardly treat the procedure favourably, and the mercury thermometer is fragile and can easily crash in the course of fight. In addition to an estimated disease of an animal it is possible to get mercury poisoning.
2. Carefully grease a thermometer tip with cream or vaseline.
3. Before the procedure caress, calm a cat. It is not necessary to approach an animal with the thermometer if it in bad mood. Scratch behind an ear, tell tender words, and only after you feel that the pet is weakened and pacified, start further actions.
4. Wrap up a cat with a blanket or dense fabric, having left outside only the head and a tail. It is important that paws with sharp claws were immobilized by this improvised diaper. The cat can at any time begin to resist, and it is necessary to be ready to finish business.
5. Lay a wrapped up cat on a plain firm surface, it is desirable on a stomach and record in position, convenient for it.
6. After that unbend a tail to a back and carefully enter the thermometer into a rectum. If you feel resistance — wait several seconds until the animal calms down, then continue. The thermometer needs to be entered on 2-2.5 cm. The majority of cats postpones this procedure patiently, but also complications are possible. You manage with an animal tenderly, but it is firm if to weaken fixing when the thermometer is already entered, the cat can seriously injure himself.
7. Modern electronic thermometers usually measure temperature very quickly, it is not necessary as in a case with the mercury thermometer to wait for several minutes, and it to you on a hand. As soon as the thermometer begins to squeak, immediately take out it.
8. After use surely wash up the thermometer with soap and disinfect. If the cat is really sick, it is not necessary to leave possible infecting agents on the thermometer to next time when it is required again.