In this episode encore we discuss the management of digestive disorders with pureANIMAL ambassador Dr Caroline Mansfield. Topics discussed include:

• What made Dr Mansfield want to become a veterinarian and what sparked her interest in gastroenterology.
• Projects Caroline has been involved in throughout her career.
• Dr Mansfield’s current canine microbiome and chronic enteropathy study.
• Effects of diet on diet-responsive enteropathies.
• Dr Caroline talks about her project on ‘Modifying the gut-brain axis to improve outcomes in shelter animals’.
• Probiotic benefits in decreasing stress in dogs.
• Common feline digestive disorders Dr Mansfield gets presented with and how she manages them.
• When are probiotics indicated in feline digestive disorders?
• When to reach for prebiotics or synbiotics?
• Dr Caroline specifies the indication for Metronidazole.