This is a YouTube video titled "¿Cómo tomar la TEMPERATURA a tu PERRO en casa? 🤒🐶 #shorts #perros" created in January 2025. The content is an instructional monologue explaining how to properly take a dog's temperature at home, focusing on the correct technique to ensure an accurate reading. There is a single speaker providing detailed guidance on the procedure.
Today we are going to talk about temperature. Temperature is a very important piece of information in any assessment of an animal's physical condition. What we have to do to take the temperature is to measure it rectally. A little tip when doing it, especially if you have to do it at home. Once we insert the thermometer rectally, we will not keep it straight. We have to turn it slightly to the side. In this way, the tip of the thermometer will make contact with the wall of the animal's rectum. Why? Because if at that moment there were stools at the end of our dog's rectum, the temperature we would take would not be that of the dog, but that of the poop. And it would give us an abnormally low temperature. So, well, the animal's tail must be lifted. Well, because that way the anus is exposed a little and it is somewhat easier to access the area. So it is as simple as waiting for the clinical thermometer to give its warning. And that's it. The temperature is reflected on the screen.