XXX: Electronic thermometers are very inaccurate, especially if rectal temperature is measured
YYY: How did you explain to the cat that this is a medical procedure?
XXX: You put the cat on the couch, across it a folded cloth, so that on one side the head and on the other side the back legs. Then you get kneeling on the two edges of the fold on the sides of the cat so that the animal is fixed. Then you take the tail in your left hand and plant the thermometer with your right. Here somewhere at the fixation stage until the cat comes to know that the game is over. Therefore, the main task is to distract his attention for as long as possible. And the thermometer is better to hold in the sleeve, without showing.
ZZZ: Why is this? I never heard that cats were measured the temperature at home, apparently science has taken a step forward.
YYY: What does science have to do with this? Just a person has a cat, a thermometer, a pledge and diverse interests.