As well as people, animals are ill and need diagnostics and treatment. Measurement of body temperature of the fluffy pet, a rabbit for example, will help you to distinguish a disease. This procedure is unpleasant for an animal, but if it is correct to do everything, process will not take a lot of time.
It is required to you
- - plastic anal thermometer.
Instruction
1. Carefully turn a sick rabbit on a back and put on knees. For convenience of a small animal lay under it the curtailed soft fabric. Shoulders and the head of a pet have to be opposite to your stomach. If to a rabbit it is inconvenient in such situation, turn it sideways.
2. Ask somebody to take front and hinder legs of the pet. Stroke a rabbit, you tell him tender words. Let the animal will a little lie down and will calm down. Hinder legs and a breast of a rabbit have to be rather strong recorded in one situation that the pet could not make the sharp movement and would not prevent you.
3. For measurement of temperature prepare the plastic anal thermometer. It is entered into a rectum which is located parallel to a backbone, one-two centimeters lower. The thermometer has to enter easily deep into provided that you correctly hold a rabbit.
4. At this moment very important that you and the assistant strong held the pet. Do not allow it to resist and to do sharp movements. If the rabbit actively escapes, put an animal in a pose, more convenient for it. Continue to hold a breast and hinder legs. Wait until your favourite completely calms down.
5. It is possible to take animal temperature only when the rabbit is quiet. Continue to talk and iron the favourite, he has to understand that you will not make to it anything bad. You do not hurry, perhaps, you will manage to take temperature only in a few minutes.
6. You do not hold a rabbit too strongly. If nothing is impossible to you, release the pet and repeat attempt after a while. Make all actions very accurately not to wound an animal. To obtain the necessary data quicker, use the electronic thermometer.
7. Pay attention that the body temperature of rabbits has to be 38.1 degrees. Its small increase temperature up to 39.9 degrees is considered. Data from 40.5 degrees are considered as strong increase.