Temperature in small animal centre dips here, perhaps (7)
I believe the answer is:
bathtub
'dips here perhaps' is the definition.
(somewhere you might take a dip)
'temperature in small animal centre' is the wordplay.
'temperature' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'small animal' becomes 'bat'.
'centre' becomes 'hub' (hub is a kind of centre**).
'bat'+'hub'='bathub'
't' placed into 'bathub' is 'BATHTUB'.
(Other definitions for bathtub that I've seen before include "cleaning facility" , "American body-washing facility" , "Place to wash (US)" , "Object used for washing bodies" , "Get in a lather with this" .)