can you use the digital thermometres on dogs?

I would have thought so. We use them on horses so i'm sure they'd work fine on dogs

I do. They always look a little startled when thier bum "beeps" LOL
Aileen

Ok, so in the ear I presume!

Nooooooo !!!! :-)

No, definitely not in the ear!

> Ok, so in the ear I presume!

No, animal temps have to be taken anally(sp?)

Ok, thanks for that, didnt realise that you could use the digidal analy.

> No, definitely not in the ear!

Have always taken a dogs temp anally, but why can we take ours by ear but not animals?

As I understand it, the temperature measured in different parts of the body varies, just as a baby's temperature taken under the arm will be slightly different to its internal temperature. I was told that the different thermometers are calibrated differently to take this into account. You won't get a correct reading if you stick your oral thermometer into your ear! Also ear thermometers work by infrared; not by contact.

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No but my dear mum would have laughed, she would always joke I didn't have much between them!

> No but my dear mum would have laughed, she would always joke I didn't have much between them!

Yeah but if she'd also said everything goes in one ear and out the other, you must have had something in there as sound doesn't travel through a vacuum!

You won't get a correct reading if you stick your oral thermometer into your ear!

It was a digital thermometer I was talking about when i mentioned ear! :0

You get digital oral thermometers (I use one myself); they're the ones that give you a reading in numbers rather than having to read the scale on a column of mercury.

Thermometers used in the ear are specially designed for that use and a normal oral/axilla/rectal thermometer whether digital or mercury won't work in the ear and may cause damage if tried.