🌡️ someone desperately hoping that the thermometer says they have a fever. Having an actual tangible illness is the only way they can justify feeling so awful and wanting a day off. Maybe they try to fudge the numbers on the reading.

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I can add that there was a study for ferrets that you could use one of those baby forehead thermometers to get an accurate temperature between the shoulder blades. It was only one specific brand and my clinic has been trying it but it does not appear to match the rectal temperature. It’s usually 1-3 degrees off. Which isn’t a huge deal for a healthy ferret but if we’re getting a 103+ temp with a scan between the shoulder blades we are verifying it with a rectal thermometer to make sure it’s accurate. No animal is more uncooperative for a rectal temp than a ferret tbh. It would be great if we could have an alternative to rectal thermometers but they’re just not accurate for animals.