Changing thermometer?

julie

I know it’s not ideal to change thermometers half way through temping but I wanted some advice on whether it would be better in my situation, basically I temp orally every morning at same time and keep my thermometer just above my headboard, my cat got into the bedroom last night and got hold of my thermometer, he knocked it to the ground and my dog tried to eat it (he’s a pug and eats/chews anything he finds on the floor, sometimes I think the dog and cat are working together lol). Anyways thankfully I got to the dog and got thermometer off him but it’s chewed up pretty bad and I had to spend 5 minutes trying to hold it a funny way to actually get it to switch on and work this morning by which time I was wide awake. So my question is in this situation would it be better to use another bbt thermometer that I have in the house or stick to trying to use the one I have been using, would changing thermometers impact my bbt chart much? I’m really gutted cos I just got my positive opk last night too on cd21 so I really wanted to see how/if my temps confirmed this over next few days.