In this episode encore, Dr Sarah Howard talks to Dr Caroline Moeser about probiotics in practice.

Topics include:

• How Caroline became a vet and ended up at Guide Dogs Australia
• Caroline’s main interests in Veterinary medicine
• Dr Moeser talks about how probiotics can shape the gut microbiome and how they have helped the dogs at Guide Dogs Australia
• How probiotics has helped reduce the incidence of diarrhoea at Guide Dogs
• When is the right time to introduce the dams and pups to probiotics?
• Can probiotics help with allergic skin disease?
• The link between a healthy microbiome and development of behavioural conditions
• Besides prebiotics and probiotics, Caroline talks about other things that can help to keep a healthy microbiome
• Dr Moeser discusses faecal transplants in dogs, its indications and benefits
• Microbiome analysis in dogs